Can I ask precisely why you feel that way?
I have some idea of why you might feel that way. Is it related to dangerous medicine (obviously, antipsychotics being unacceptably, incredibly dangerous)? Is it related to misdiagnoses and inaccurate psychiatrist records and callous treatment?
Besides my concern with the safety of paliperidone and other antipsychotics, another issue I have faced my whole adult life and hope to solve is my own experience with psychiatrists maliciously misdiagnosing me, continually (almost constantly) making utterly inaccurate notes about what I have said and am saying, other such distortions, as well as callous treatment. I have long suspected this problem to be very widespread.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem, I hope as many people as possible, including yourself, can help gather evidence that this problem of any of the following exists: misdiagnoses, inaccurate patient records and distortions, callous treatment, etc.
While you are certainly justified in avoiding psychiatrists, this will not solve the problem with psychiatry. What we really need is as many people who have experienced this problem to gather evidence and come forward. News media, the public, etc. need to be made aware of this problem and we also need to present them with concrete evidence.
Although it is a lot to ask of any of you on these threads, since almost all of you have or still suffer from paliperidone caused severe depression and sexual dysfunction, as well as other side effects from antipsychotics, (in addition to whatever mental health issues you may or may not have), it is essential that certain steps be taken, which may be painstaking but are necessary.
What we need is that anyone gathering evidence about such abuse from treating psychiatrists also make good faith efforts to confront their psychiatrists about misdiagnoses, inaccurate records and distortions and callous treatment. If they don't share their Notes with you, ask them to. Keep records of those Notes, preferably also sound/voice record your meetings with your psychiatrists (so you can have proof that they are lying about you and what you are saying); also, if the problem continues, contact local government agencies with complaints, some of which may regulate these providers' licensing. Get as much information about the clinic and your psychiatrists as possible. Therein, when such individuals as you and myself share this story with the public and the news media, we have credible evidence and we can show that we made a good faith effort to give the psychiatrists a chance for correction, etc.
I am hoping to gather as much evidence from as many individuals who have suffered this problem as possible, to bolster our case to news media, watchdog groups and organizations and even lawyers, etc. that this problem truly exists, is widespread, and that urgent action is needed to force accountability and reform in psychiatry.
I do think psychiatric medicine can help people and I do think that, at least in concept/theory, psychiatry should be a good thing and that they should be accurate, caring, law abiding and hold to the tenets of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath. As flawed as it is, I still believe psychiatry is a pillar/essential institution of society, and that we should go after the bad apples diligently, rather than outright rejecting the entire profession--even if the entire profession is in fact corrupt and callous, even if the entire profession is bad apples (unfortunately, this argument can legitimately be made). Yes, even if the profession seems to attract people of poor moral character who abuse power, don't practice good medicine and science, accept indoctrination without question, etc. and even if the profession fundamentally produces such characters and bad results through its educational and professional development and structures, etc. and even if some of the fundamental approach of abnormal psychiatry is severely flawed, I still believe that, on some basic level, psychiatry is supposed to be good and helpful.
I might also warn you that, depending on what your qualms are, but if they are the same as I have, that private therapists and psychologists can be guilty of all the same problems: they can misdiagnose you, sometimes recklessly, deliberately, maliciously and in a highly damaging matter, they can make inaccurate records and distortions, be callous, etc. This has certainly happened to me.
I’ll definitely be back when I’m 100% .
