Upset some antipsychiatry types on twitter

I’ve had to block a heap of them already .

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Glad i didnt read them. Those Anti-Psychs type really wind me up, and frankly i believe, they give out dangerous advice.

I treat them with the same contempt as the Anti-vaxxers.

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Due to my experiences I can be fairly critical of psychiatry . However it’s not because psychiatry as a whole is a bad thing, but because there are those working in psychiatry who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a service user .

There is a big difference in how I’m treated here , than how I was treated in Essex . That shows that there are caring and good MH pros . Such people should be praised. As for the others - kick them out of the MH profession asap .

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I tend to agree. Years back - the old cmht i was under, decided that i was lying and i didnt have a psychotic illness - and stopped my depot. Que year of relapses, and psychotic symptoms, where i had got so bad i didnt even realise i was ill anymore.

I even got a bad name at the hospital - and they would literally grown when i used to turn up twice a month, after taking yet another overdose. You get treated like shite, when they think your BPD.

It took a doctor to say and ask, why the bloody hell i wasnt seen earlier - and that i was actually Schizophrenic. The old CMHT completley fcking missed it.

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If I based my view of psychiatry on my first pdoc, I’d hate it. He was a real jerk. Treats addicts and treats all patients as if they are drug seekers. Including making every patient do a urine test before he will see them!

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The previous trust I was under was more into character assassination than providing help and support. I don’t deny that part of the difference between here and there is that here I have my stepdaughter in my corner .

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I have to tell you guys its getting better. When I was treated they ruled out drugs or a heart issue (although I think a nurse thought I was a junky and tugged the needle in my arm) then said I was schizophrenic. From there it took an involuntary admission and a visit to a more specialized facility and I was in the process and being treated.

That was around 2015. So some lessons have been learned. They did however let me go without warning me about any sort of side effects or anything to be wary of and I suffered a weekend of torturous Akathesia. At the end of the day I don’t blame them.

I was pissed off for years - struggling with my mind - and yet not fully undertstanding why wasnt feeling better, after so called trusting the doctors.

Some people think the worlds ended when they get the sz diagnosis - but to me it was a blessing - i finally had an explanation for all the wierd crap in my life. And now i had a label - i could research it, and learn coping skills. And at last i felt it was the right diagnosis - cos it made sense. Not this PD crap they gave me.

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I had the PD dx from 2005-2018 having from 1983/1988- 2005 been dxed with sz-a mixed type/or less frequently bipolar disorder . It was a label that was attached because the mental health team didn’t like me .

Now I’m back to a sz-a plus an Asperger’s dx ( the latter being something that if my previous MH team had been half way competent would have been dxed in 1992!)

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My experiences with British psychiatry (the land of R.D. Laing, among other saints) have been dismal, zero interest in my welfare. One is tempted to compare the history of psychiatry, redolent of cruelty and scientific chimeras with that with that of its nemesis, but the ideological orientation of this forum prevents me.

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