It is best to research mental health systems and psychotropic drugs with a clear mind.
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By the time you are faced with the need to make a decision about whether or not to start taking a medication, you might not be in the best frame of mind to digest the research or to make a reasoned decision. Almost all medications have side effects, but some side effects are worse than others. Psychotropic drugs are prescribed by primary care physicians for insomnia and other problems, as well as by psychiatrists. Everyone on Medicare is asked to fill out a mental health evaluation at their yearly visit. I do not know how to convey the seriousness or magnitude of the problems posed by psychotropic drugs, but I will do my best to shed some light on them.
For most people, anxiety and depression are experienced as their body screaming at them that it cannot do what is being asked of it. Two courses of action are to adjust the circumstances so the person can heal, or to help the person learn how to cope with the stress. That is not what usually happens these days. In the midst of acute psychological pain, a person is most likely prescribed a brain-altering drug, and if they question or refuse, they are accused of not wanting to get better.
The drugs more or less silence the screaming, but do not remove the causes of the distress. How many people have been sacrificed to a drug because their family does not want to be inconvenienced? How many people are offered an alternative to a drug? How many people are told about the black box warnings, or other severe side effects, before they leave the doctor’s office? How many people overwhelmed by psychological pain are capable of making an informed decision? How many people in such pain would be able to stand up against coercion to take the drug?
There are many ways to describe how psychotropic drugs affect the brain. One is that they disable the brain, varying from person to person. As difficult as it is to fathom, a person can function and seem okay, but for most people there is no free will as is commonly understood; there are no rational thought processes, no considering multiple courses of action, a kind of autopilot. Medical spellbinding is real — a person’s ability to describe what is happening to them mentally is compromised, and they are at the mercy of a drug’s effects on the brain. One of the indescribably cruel aspects of this is that if a person is able to convey that they feel worse on the drug, an arrogant doctor says it’s the illness and increases the dosage or adds another drug.
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If a person is very, very fortunate, they manage to function without seriously hurting themselves or anyone else, but it is not a full immersion in life — there is a disconnect, a deadening, an invisible wall, viewing but not deeply participating, a going-through-the-motions. That in itself constitutes harm to the person and their loved ones. The harm is compounded by the fact that it is incredibly difficult to wean off of these drugs. There are other harms these drugs can cause.
Not only are these drugs being prescribed to adults, including pregnant women, but children are more and more being subjected to mental health evaluations at doctor visits and in school.
Here are some resources to get you started: Dr. Peter Breggin and Dr. Roger McFillin have written extensively on psychiatry and psychotropic drugs, each has a Substack. Dr. Breggin has written multiple books. Dr. McFillin has a podcast. AbleChild is an organization helping parents who question the intrusiveness of schools in regard to their children’s well-being, as well as working to alert the public to the dangers of psychotropic drugs.
I cannot stress enough the importance of researching these drugs, to be a help to friends and loved ones, as well as yourself.
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