Said no one ever. Things have been done to me during my treatment. Some strange, some straightforward abuse. Spoke to someone who worked in the psychiatry and I’m told about the events that happened to me - “yeah that’s nothing new. These things happened all the time.”
I want you to know you’re not alone. Whoever you are, wherever in the world, it happened to other people too.
OOOH yes! The main trigger for my psychosis was a large dose of drugs taken all at once—and at the time, I wasn’t even being properly examined. For a whole month, they fed me VERY high doses of olanzapine, which, by the way, made me gain a lot of weight, barely helped with the symptoms, and made me hate myself even more.
I’m glad I’m staying far away from hospitals and unprofessional doctors. Since 2017, I’ve had my own psychiatrist—the one I’m still seeing to this day. She’s wonderful and never wanted to overload my body with medications I didn’t need at the time.
It’s a disgusting profession
There must be a better way of doing the whole trial and error process
Do they not understand how much suffering occurs when constantly changing meds?
They should be doing genetic testing to find the right med
At least do something related to science
Experiments are for lab. The point where you give meds you’d best be damn sure you have done your best to work out what would suit someone better
Sorry rant over
I had pent up anger after reading the topic title
Sorry this happened to you both.
And I’ll change the topic title.
I think the doctors are just trying to help in a difficult situation
Yes, it’s their job – but not all of them are truly professional doctors, and some don’t help as much as they make the situation worse.
I agree 
some of these “meds” simply don’t work and I wonder if the FDA knows this
Mind you for some risperidol more specifically seem to help some but not others
My first doctor was very experienced and he was saying in 2018 that in five years testing for meds would be a thing
Guess Covid caused that not to happen like many other things!
For the most part I would have to say I have been done right by most of my psychiatrists. It helps that I’m not a game player and I make a point of being honest with them. They can’t treat what they don’t know about.
I wouldn’t say my first couple of psychiatrsts were abusive so much as gormless. I have been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for most of my adult life. It has left me with a powerful drive for recovery that is uncommon in psychiatric patients and that my early psychiatrists thought was unrealistic. I was told not to bother trying things. “You’ll just make yourself sick.” Well, I’m already sick so maybe I’ll make myself better was what I thought. And I did.
Having psychiatrists take away your hope to the point where you’re suicidal is maybe or maybe not abusive, but I would classify it as a dxxk move.
The only bad experience with psychiatrists i had was in my early 20s, they misdiagnosed me when i was devwloping sza and denied me meds.
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