Schizophrenia—Critique of Medication & Big Pharma

This critique of conventional, medical treatments for schizophrenia—and an analysis of the negative effects of Big Pharma—is from unused interview footage from Take These Broken Wings, a 75-minute documentary on recovery from schizophrenia without medication (available through www.iraresoul.com). I recorded over seventeen hours of interviews for the film—and wish to make public as much of it as possible, as I feel it can be very useful to people.

Some of the world-class experts represented in this YouTube video:

Joanne Greenberg, best-selling author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, recovered from schizophrenia for over fifty years

Robert Whitaker, journalist, author of Mad in America

Peter Breggin, MD, radical psychiatrist and author of Toxic Psychiatry

Bertram Karon, PhD, psychologist, therapist, and author of The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

Daniel Dorman, MD, psychiatrist, author of Dantes Cure

Danielle Knafo, PhD, psychologist, author of Living With Terror, Working With Trauma

Ann-Louise Silver, MD, psychiatrist, editor, Psychoanalysis and Psychosis

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• Schizophrenia
• treatment
• medication
• Big
• Pharma
• psychosis
• schizophrenics
• trauma
• recovery
• healing
• Joanne
• Greenberg
• Never
• Promised
• You
• Rose
• Garden
• Peter
• Breggin
• Robert
• Whitaker
• Daniel
• Mackler

[Hornilope]

Good job killing people by telling people who are suicidal and sick to not take medication that can save their lives.

Anyone who beleives that mental illness is a cause of trauma and complicated subconscious inner conflicts is an ignorant fucking retard who ignores reality and accepts the false answer that seems most romantic.

[dmackler58]

@Hornilope it sounds like you have accepted the dogmas of traditional psychiatry. as such, anything challenging the "you have a brain illness" and "you need meds for life" is considered evil and/or criminal. i suggest reading robert whitaker's latest book.

[CliveGains80s]

the whole idea of treatment is fiction cause there is no disease.

just call it what it is. eugenics. mental hygiene.

on the rational it's a disease no one should be given a drug. ever. if it for restraint call it that. but never an illness, or a disorder, bad genes,

[Hornilope]

@Hornilope Unfortunately, treating mental illness is not so simple that it takes a simple realization of a hidden trauma that doesn't exist. Such a beleif s ridicoulus and absurd. It takes alot of work and a combination of many different treatments in order for someone to get well.

[Hornilope]

@dmackler58

That does not mean that the cause and reasons for mental illness is 100% genetic. Naturally, trauma and stress will trigger it to those who are vulnerable (like epilepsy, another brain illness). We also have a degree of control over these things, so it can be effected by cognitive therapy. And vitamins and a healthy lifestyle will help the person who is ill to keep all of his organ, including (and most importantly) the brain. And off course medication is often necessary.

[Hornilope]

@dmackler58 Since thoughts take place in the brain it is undeniably a brain illness, unless you don't consider it an illness or if you beleive in souls (which is more then possible considering you beleive in freud)

[Hornilope]

@Hornilope

Medication, if used properly in combination with other types of treatment (vitamins, good nutrition, healthy lifestyle, cognitive therapy, supportive family/social network etc etc), saves lives. Although I am critical of how medication is being used today (people are being overmedicated and other treatment types are not emphasized enough)

BTW, unlike most of the self-satisfied asswipes here I actually have a real mental illness.

[ellandelachapelle]

That´s great Peter. And why? Why do we not get care? Because they think we are NOT human beings. But some sort of Martians! (I call this psych-apartheid.) (great to see Joanne by the way. Alive and kicking.)

[DannyHaszard]

Eli Lilly Zyprexa suits

They called it the *Five at Five* (5 mg at 5 pm to keep nursing home patients subdued and sleepy) and *VIVA ZYPREXA* (Zyprexa for everybody) campaigns to off label market Eli Lilly Zyprexa as a fix for unapproved usage. Big Pharma companies that have relied on fraud to market industry's worst pharmaceuticals--antipsychotic drugs--which have become industry's most profitable cash cow. ---

Daniel Haszard Zyprexa victim activist

[Patternpop]

So wonderful... Just so wonderful.

I have a homeless ministry..

I am so glad this is up...

Thank you

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