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I really appreciate what Matt said at the end- that maybe activism is about choosing what we choose to do out of love and compassion (thus not re-traumatising peoples). Thanks Indigo and Matt, it was a great talk.

That must have been horrible for Indigo to see misuse of her efforts. Agree people have a choice to try to stand up even if only in a small way/not be complicit as Matt said. Systems are not people but but people serve systems probably for many reasons: out of fear, when they perceive benefit to themselves - there's lots of fear generated from having all that responsibility - the system is a monster with teeth!

Interesting (to see the comments of others here), I am going to leave this comment for myself (if I come back to it), I might've gone through 6 sessions of ultra brief pulse ECT in June 2024. I did have gaps in memory like forgetting whether I'd told someone something so I tell it to them again. But as of now Aug 12 2024, I have no memories or functional disabilities. I do have a slight tremor in my left hand but I am uncertain whether it is from the meds I take (because it used to be there albeit less intense/less pronounced for at least a couple years before the ECT, possibly thanks to mood stab meds), as my meds have been significantly changed from what I was taking before ECT. An antidepressant has been reduced from its max permissable dose to the lowest permissable dose for eg. But other meds have been added. Until about 2 weeks ago I overall felt really good, I had to agree that it was like depression was in remission, until I had a significant change in my routine where I had to go be at a friend's for their wedding related stuff. Mood has been slowly decreasing/worsening since imho albeit that could also be due to new work challenges added last week plus having to face the fact that my current job does not provide me with a salary I can last a month on, if I did not have others monetary assistance. Especially the knowledge that to get a job that pays 2-3x this, I will have to go through a much tougher stressful corporate work environment, which seems unfeasible when I still struggle with my current job in academia (less stress than corporate). I have watched talks by psychiatrists on how the post ECT relapse rate is v high, hence the need for maintenance meds, and in some cases maintenance ECT... Something I will talk to the professor about when I meet them next week. But I'd really like to see how I do longer term (wish to revisit this comment and reply to it) especially since I do still plan on entering the higher stress corporate work environment for the higher pay, since if I am to stay in my current job path, I will have to do a masters or MBA to progress, which would add stress too on top of the current job anyway.

Psychiatry is just économique and politocs nothing scientific in it .

I knew drs were lying, gaslighting. Nurse who assaulted me while i was coming out of a coma

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Done 6 sessions and my life is ruined my brain is not the same anymore memory wise nor cognitive functions and caused me migraine like symptoms.... to sue them in Canada success rate is 33% unfortunately. These criminal doctors need to pay the price of this monstrosity

At least your only child was not taken away from you. Did they take a cent out of your pocket? Garfield NJ 07026 needs children foster families need to have a lexus

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Thank goodness. You are speaking the truth. For those who have ears to hear. Lead us on.

What a beautiful soul.

Fantastic Ruth. Thank you 🙏🏻

i found a solution, whether it will work we will see, and i dont recommend others do it. but whatever it takes to get out of the dungeons of psychiatry

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Thank you

The reality is that we are in the dark age (probably worse than that) of mental health. On one side we have the biochemical model, on the other one those psycho-social models which are absolutely ineffective and are more political than anything else. The truth is that our industrialized societies are incompatible with mass mental wellbeing, there is hope for the single individual but most people are not capable/willing to put up against the entire civilization. It may sounds like some Übermensch rant, but even rants are true somethimes.

I'm french and had 5 electrochocs in France. I suffer from horribles and chronic headaches since I had it, and had to learn to manage to life with a feeling of pain that made my cried everydays. I also have the impression I perform worse in academics. I had to abandon my studies for a while because I felt so much pain while studying and trying to memorize I wasn't capable to continue. I have less less ECT than this woman and I empathise. ECT horribles sides effects are real.

Psych labels are harmful, destructive and even dangerous. I was misdiagnosed and given pills that caused side effects mainly weight gain. Psych labels are power controls which can damage and even destroy the people they are given to.

I had around 21 sessions, and I feel that I regret it. It’s been roughly 7 years. I am experiencing a loss of learned abilities, short-term memory issues, learning new things can be difficult where I’ll have to keep going over information over and over in order to get it. I feel more blank in general

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Laura, This was quite a while ago, now. I want to once again Thank You and Commend you for your selfless work on behalf of the vulnerable, suffering, powerless victims of these demons. They all know what the future is for patients who take their drugs. You have done an immense amount of good. It's too late for me, but I will continue on with the Fight! I admire your strength and resolve. I wish I Knew Then. I might well have been by your side. As I write this they are still destroying lives, but The DEA is finally going after them for recklessly prescribing benzos.It's a start, anyway. I know this to be the case. It only took The Authorities 65 years to hold them accountable for that. What they did to me is not only criminal, but profoundly shocking.

RUclips, be the revolutionary thing that you advertise yourself to be and be honest with your algorithms, this channel would be leading culture back into decency and your beloved productivity to good enough quality standards, want slaves? Well still, slaves won't be doing a good job if they ain't healthy so let the world get better, let AD4E be seen as it should and stop being a mock of yourself.

James Davies deserves a peace Nobel although seen the history of Nobel prizes the Nobel mostly doesn't deserves James Davies. You're amongst the heroes of our times, thank you for your valuable work. By the way augmenting productivity at the expenses of productivity's quality is amongst the dumbest ideas made possible by this cancerous economy, just as ironic as noticing how the believers of eugenics are the most mentally underdeveloped amongst all people. World please have mercy on yourself.

She withdrew from Anti-Psychotic drugs, many of them for Bipolar Disorder, She advocates drug free now, and that is where much of the hostility by the Public starts. She has spoken about her childhood as privileged, attending a private school, she was made a leader by the other girls, and then at 14yrs old she had an identity type of crisis, and became labeled Bipolar, enslaved to body killing drugs and worse mind altering than her identity crisis. All her girlfriends at the private school demoted her as leader and rejected her systematically by subtly ignoring and excluding her. Even though her study was affected by the drugs, she was accepted to Harvard University. Then she learned of withdrawing from the drugs, and is one or the major reason she was referring to Anti-Psychiatry here. You cannot get your rights back if you cannot get off those drugs and refuse to enroll in the mental health system. Laura did manage to graduate from Harvard, and has been an activist in various groups since.

This AD4E channel should be all over the place, seeing how little it has been viewed is seeing proof of how disgracefully stupid the drivers of the algorithms still are, let's hope it all changes for better before better changes it all.

The Chemical Imbalance construct was contrived by Gregory Bateson, husband to Margaret Mead. It is yet a credulous + lucrative marketing tool used by Standard of Care psychiatrists. Psychiatrist Jeffrey A. Schaler has dismantled this with: "Show me the Chemical Balance Tests!"

psychiatrists are here to uphold inequality in society and blame you for being pissed off with it and feeling ill

of course if you tell a psychiatrist this they will label you as mentally disturbed

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You can do better James... erase those slides for good, we have seen them. I don't want you to fail, this is too important to remain behind the scenes. There are people living nightmares day in day in day in, they want to wake up, they need tools, science, truths, not wars against windmills. I wish you well.

Send me a petition….I will sign it willingly…. All too often, meds are pushed and handed out like sweets. Once they don’t work…ECT is suggested (more like forced upon) Antiquated and barbaric and should be banned.

I´m a CBT-therapist. Paul Gilbert is very inspiring. I love his work on this ❤

Always good to see alternatives to the reductionist, medicalisation that we see everywhere. However this making space to understand, hear and be heard, requires a level of resources that most are just not furnished with. ‘Soothing’ is missing from life for millions and self soothing, via drugs (prescribed and illegal), alcohol, garbage food, gambling is common place. The average family are bathed in stress from waking to bedtime, surrounded by a poisoned food system, debt and poor neighbourhoods acutely aware of ones position in the class system. I wonder how following the advice here would look, if you were still living in a cramped shit hole in Hartlepool, if this really ever was your experience, personally, I’m doubtful. The common factors approach in the therapy literature seem clear that the main helpful factor in any successful therapy is nothing to do with therapy but all about resources, in the broadest sense. What is disordered are many elements of the culture, the constant competition, comparing and self interest. Most jobs, school system and class etc. The science here seems pretty clear. Talking about the brain as if we understand it seems just another form of false advertising. Wise compassionate words are all very well - seems a bit like like pouring artificial fertiliser on to a beautiful plant that is struggling to survive because its planted in dog turds, with limited sunlight and water from a urinal. RESOURCES are what the plant and us are needed. Anyone writing such books ought to be living in poverty conditions, perhaps then we might get to a realistic view of what is possible and what is not.

Joanna Moncrieff is just the bomb !!! so committed,so scientifically rigorous..a true doctor,healer and scientist

you folks are doing excellent much needed work to change our mental ill health systems. The shift will take time because corporate power controls the narrative from multiple angles. The medicalisation of distress has been linked to much needed real world benefits like reasonable adjustments in the disordered work place or discorded school or actual financial gain. Under these circumstances people will happily go along with the narrative because people require resources to cope and grow. Never mind the drugs these labels most often lead to are a disaster for human wellbeing, we're all educated into immediate gratification and short termism.

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