“I became alienated from my self, my thoughts, my life, a prisoner of drugs and psychiatric mystification; my body, heavy as a bear’s, lumbered and lurched as I tried to maneuver the curves of my outside world. These drugs are used not to heal or help, but to torture and control.” Another patient said, “The muscles of your jawbone go berserk, so that you bite the inside of your mouth and your jaw locks and the pain throbs. Your spinal column stiffens so that you can hardly move your head or your neck, and sometimes your back bends like a bow and you cannot stand up. The pain grinds into your
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