1) Ok here's the reason i'm antipsychiatry. I had never had major MH problem before i went in psychiatry in 97.
I was sent there for a routine checkup after i had a major panic attack while under the influence of amphetamine.
2) The GP at the hospital sent me there cause
thought it would help out.
I went there on my own never thinking this would followed me until this day.
The 1st psychiatrist i saw was bit quack, came up with 5 different Dx in 1 yr and gave me benzo.
3) I didn't remember but its not until i saw my medical file that i read that i saw another psychiatrist after in 98.
She was the one that came up with PD Dx.
I went off CT from benzo in 3 months in 99 and left psychiatry for 5 yrs.
4) 2003 after struggling with life events i went back to psychiatry. I met another psychiatrist that came up with 6 different Dx in 7 months and gave me the prescription for an antidepressant that i'm still taking now in 2020.
5) The antidepressant plunge me into more anxiety and panic attacks and i ended with agoraphobia 9 months after starting the med. I spent 5 months inside incapable of going out waiting for a CBT.
6) I finally got to do the CBT and got through it but no one ever asked me about the meds. Not a single word about it.
The person supervising the clinic was a psychiatrist. I didn't recognize but she knew me. She didn't say it at the time.
I found about it reading my med file.
7) That psychiatrist was the one who came with the PD Dx in 98 and she persisted and signed in clear letter about it in my med file. They didn't refer me to anyone and i went on with my life still on the meds.
8) So between 2005-2010 i had to see different incompetent psychiatrists from different clinics who all tried to gave me another antidepressant or withdraw the benzo i was on since 2003. None of them ever talked about stopping the meds because of what was written in my med file.
9) 2011 : I go back to the psychiatric hospital because i felt suicidal and lost. The psychiatrist i was seeing died so i had no choice but to go there. I was reevaluated passed a tons of questionnaires and my name was on a list for a therapy.
The therapy was centred mainly
10) about the same Dx that was formulated in 98. PD + anxiety. So it took only one psychiatrist to come up with a Dx of PD to fuck up my life until now. No other psychiatrist ever challenged her Dx no one ever offered me help to withdraw from benzo or the antidepressant
11) So imagine this for a sec. Founding out that one psychiatrist did a Dx in 98 and for 16 yrs not only did no other psychiatrists dared to challenges that Dx but they all embraced it. You add the fact that they didn't offer me a chance to get off this meds
12) to this and come and ask me to have respect for psychiatry. Not only did they broke the person i was but radicalized me. I can't enumerate all that i lost through all those yrs but i know i suffered enough (and still suffering) not to shake hands with the enemy.
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