“This was a wholly organic, commonsensical process: I bought no self-help books and sought no practitioners, protocols, supplements, products, or formulaic practices to teach me. Instead, I looked inward and listened.”
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
“I’d spent most of my life assuming that discomfort was a problem to be fixed, numbed, or run away from—that I needed to do something whenever I felt sad or anxious or angry or headachy or otherwise uncomfortable: seek out some kind of professional help or service, take pills, eat something, buy something, get drunk, scroll through a newsfeed, distract myself with television.”
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
“according to the American Psychiatric Association, a mother “still” grieving the loss of her child more than two weeks out now meets the criteria for a major depression diagnosis and antidepressant treatment?”
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
“They convince us we have to look a certain way, talk a certain way, perform a certain way, I thought. We’re just puppets.”
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
“couldn’t fathom how it was possible that so many of us could be prescribed psychiatric drugs for so many years based on essentially zero scientific evidence for long-term use.”
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
― Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
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