Posted by Givemeanamenow on June 25, 2003, at 3:41:25
In reply to Re: Peter Breggin sucks dirty green donkey dicks, posted by OldSchool on March 24, 2002, at 22:15:11
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----As one who owes his life to God and has been forced to take neuroleptics for 3 years and has been undiagnosed with Schizophrenia and found to be WITHOUT the very illness treated committed 3 times due to homelessness and family dysfunction
for running away to get help from friends while under psychiatric minor care then pounded with medication from the hospital, I say you are wrong.Peter Breggin has a point. There is injustice out there and I have almost died from withdrawal because of medicine that never helped with anxiety, and I would sue every doctor who didn't listen to me, but my parents are the ones who had me committed. I see people with "schizophrenia" and think maybe that's THEIR business, but that doesn't give Psychiatrists the right to lock up people for a month at a time with a bunch of crazy people screaming at night like demons and emotionally unstable people who need spiritual and nutritional help more than drugs in most cases00.
May you find help for your need, but don't think so badly about Mr. Breggin - although He never showed up at my trials, had he been there I would have been spared a living hell for 6 years.
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As one who owes her life to meds--and who also thinks Peter Breggin doesn't know his a** from first base--let me say, I find your posts painful, sneaky, and a big waste of my time.
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> > This is a board where people *discuss* their use of medications. It's not appropriate to come here and play out a position that is wholly irrelevant our purpose here, to the stated purpose.
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> Peter Breggin does a disservice to all seriously mentally ill people by his refusal to acknowledge mental illness is biologically based. He has no hospital privileges. He refuses to acknowledge the severity and disability of many untreated severe mental illnesses. From what Ive read in his books, he still believes in old style, Freudian psychotherapy and believes that severe depression can be overcome by therapy.
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> I am in disbelief as to why Breggin is still allowed to have a Medical Doctor certification in psychiatry. He seems much more cut out to be a psychologist than a psychiatrist. I believe Breggin would have been a much happier man had he become a psychologist than a MD.
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------Maybe so but I would like to have him as a lawyer
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> After all Ive been thru with mental illness, this man disgusts me. His trivializing my problems is insulting. I suppose Breggin believes severe melancholic depression can be treated with a cup of chicken soup and some hand holding huh? Lets sit around with Peter Breggin and sing Kumb by ah and sing campfire songs and roast marshmellows. I bet my depression would go away then. Just sit around and talk about those underlying "issues" and suddenly you will be able to sleep normally again huh?
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::That may be your issue depression-but mine was full blown anxiety and OCD AND depression. Prozac has yet to help me. 3 years Buspar, all that shi- has yet to help. And you probably were not COMMITTED by your freaking PARENTS because you didn't want or refused to take medicine for a diagnosis that was total BS. If I had a dime for all the times people asked me do you hear voices see things ---or --have trouble sleeping?
I mean I would be making atleast 2 bucks.NO NO NO and thanks for wasting my time
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