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The people who have been harmed by the mental health system are organizing. They are speaking. They are finding each other in online communities, in the comment sections of podcasts and publications where someone finally said out loud what they had been told was not real. The drug withdrawal that lasted three years. The sexual dysfunction that never resolved. The marriage that ended while the prescription was renewed. The child who was never the same after the medication began. These people were told they were outliers. Anecdotes. They were told the research did not support what they were experiencing in their own bodies. They did not stop speaking. And their numbers are too large now to dismiss.
I have been labeled anti-psychiatry for standing with them. That label is a weapon. It is deployed deliberately by an institution that has no scientific defense for its practices and therefore attacks the character of anyone who names what those practices produce. I am not anti-psychiatry in the sense that label implies. I am pro-science. I am pro-safety. I am pro-informed consent. Psychiatry is none of these things. It has no biomarkers. No confirmed disease mechanisms. No objective diagnostic criteria. It has never demonstrated that its primary treatments produce better long-term outcomes than no treatment at all. It has suppressed the research that shows they produce worse ones. To call the people who name this anti-science is to invert reality so completely that it constitutes a form of gaslighting directed at an entire culture. AWAKEN
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