Susan Kingsley-Smith

I have cats. 😊 Sometimes I write. Sociologist. Thinker. #iatrogenicinjury

[Ali Zeck @AliBeckZeck]

I am ten years off of all psychiatric drugs this week, after being polydrugged by psychiatry for 25 years.

Here’s what I want to say:

To my ex treating psychiatrist, who diagnosed me with “bipolar” disorder when I was in the middle of acute benzo withdrawal, then a few months later, threw up his hands in exasperation at me and said “I don’t know what to do with you Ali. These drugs work for everybody else,” and then scheduled me for ECT….

You lied. The year that you said that to me I found out later you had two of your patients take their own lives. You are ignorant and dangerous and I proved you wrong.

To my ex treating therapist, Dr. P., who saw me for years, knew the physical abuse I endured, the chaos, the family history of wife and child abuse and all of the infidelities, and yet, somehow disguised me with “genetic mental illness,” and made me repeat after her: “My name is Ali. I have a genetic mental illness that will require medication for the rest of my life,” even though I told you the drugs made me feel weird. When I told her I was trying to come off of the drugs and treat it more holistically she laughed me and said that was just silly.

You were wrong, you are ignorant, and you are also harmful.

You both pulled me into an underworld of disconnection, soul crushing pain for decades.

May karma find you both in a dark alley.

[Psychiatry_Survivor @Psychiatry_Anti]

Today is 66 months of tapering off handfuls of psychiatric drugs. And 28 months into my Seroquel taper.

60 months longer than what my psychiatrist (who didn't know about hyperbolic tapering) said it would take...

Yes, some people can easily cold turkey or rapid taper psych meds, but many of us have a sensitized nervous system and can't rapid taper safely.

I share these monthly milestones to normalize those of us who have a more challenging time.

My breakthroughs:

• I'm closer to becoming the person I was created to be since getting off many of the mind-altering, nutrient-depleting psychoactive substances.

• I now rely on my Creator for anxiety relief, instead of pills that cause a plethora of adverse effects.

• I no longer align myself with lies and curses spoken over me and my life. I'm not defective, disordered or mentally ill.

• I'm fearfully and wonderfully made in my Creator’s image, which certainly isn't "bipolar", "OCD", "ADHD" or any of the other profitable, fictitious labels voted into existence.

• This journey has taught me that when I've run out of my human strength, God's strength takes over.

• I refuse to curse myself by saying things like, "I'm stuck," "I can't do this," or "I'm permanently damaged."

As long as our hearts are beating, there's always hope for healing.

Keep going, tapering warriors, its difficult but not impossible. We're all walking alongside each other. One foot in front of the other💪🏻🤗

#mytaperingjourney #NervousSystemHealing #PsychiatricInjuryAwareness

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Nobody asks the most basic question about ADHD:
Why is this medical at all?
If there's no biological test, no measurable pathology, no objective finding — what exactly gives a doctor the authority to call a child's behavior a disease and prescribe Schedule II amphetamines?

I asked a Columbia psychiatrist this directly. His answer was appeals to training and expertise.
Expertise in what? Memorizing a checklist? Writing prescriptions? Mistaking subjective judgment for medical diagnosis?

Here's what actually gets labeled ADHD:
A traumatized child in hypervigilance. A sleep-deprived kid who can't sit still. A gifted child bored out of their mind. A kid younger than their classmates by 11 months — still developmentally behind peers — labeled disordered. A child reacting to family dysfunction. A malnourished kid washing down a stimulant with sugary cereal.

Every one of those children has a real problem. None of those problems is "ADHD." And none of them gets solved by amphetamines.
What actually gets solved? The inconvenience. The kid sits still. The classroom gets quieter. The parent stops getting calls from the school. The psychiatrist books three more 15-minute medication management appointments per hour.
We're not treating disease. We're suppressing behavior that makes adults uncomfortable — and calling it medicine.

The DSM disorders aren't discovered through research. They're created through committee votes. Literally. When homosexuality was in the DSM, it wasn't removed because of a biological discovery. They voted. That's the process. That's the authority.
Your child's diagnosis was born the same way.

This isn't a fringe position. The former head of NIMH called the DSM "scientifically meaningless." The man who chaired the DSM-IV task force now admits they created false epidemics. These are psychiatry's own leaders.

The question was never whether children struggle. Of course they do. The question is whether we should be diagnosing that struggle as a brain disease and drugging it into silence.
AWAKEN.

[Harmony Bright @bright_har6612]

This is why Psychiatry is under scrutiny….

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

@ChrisPalmerMD @APApsychiatric Well. Retribution for the life psychiatry stole from me and the poor health I live with becauseof the physical damage done by nearly 20 years of toxic poisons for that mysterious chemical imbalance that doesn’t exist (until the drug cause it). Being chemically lobotomized….

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 7: All that to say that we can find our way, but we’re not gonna do it by finding another person to save us

I think it was Bob Marley. He’s got some sort of a quote out there that no one can save us but ourselves.

Best always

Susan KS

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 6: …made a fortune billing my insurance for all those years for so-called therapy that was never helpful and always harmful.

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 5: So from that perspective, I started forging my path and stopped relying on. I stopped seeking assistance from and I stopped believing all of these fucking professionals that made a fortune billing my insurance for all those years for so-called therapy…

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 4: I figured out that every single diagnosis that they had stuck on me shaped me into somebody that I wasn’t

And I realize that I wasn’t dealing with “symptoms” but I was dealing with the developmental issues with being left to fend for myself as a child.

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 3: I started reading material on what was kind of new to the “mental health“ system regarding trauma informed care.

And to make a long story, a little bit shorter, I figured it out.

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

Part 2: I was going to find a way out.

Fortunately, once I was off all the drugs around the end of 2007 my brain woke up. Also about that time, the Internet had become a wonderful resource and tool.

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

The idea that I couldn’t “get better” without “professionals” kept me prisoner. For over 15 years, I sought “professional“ help and got nowhere. My life was no better. I felt worse, and I knew that if I couldn’t find a way to make my life better that I was going to find a way…

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Despite unprecedented access to healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical interventions, and medical technology, Western societies are sicker, more medicated, more anxious, more depressed, and more chronically ill than at any point in human history. The system is not failing despite its design. It is producing exactly what its design guarantees. Something foundational is wrong, and it cannot be corrected by doing more of what created the problem.

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

IMPORTANT 🚨

Johnson & Johnson was caught adding cancer causing carcinogens in their sunscreens, they caused THE EXACT SAME cancer that their company makes the majority of their revenue selling treatment drugs for

This is one of the most evil and shocking videos you’ll ever see

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

@ABrokenBattery I’m sorry you’re struggling still. 😔

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

#psch #drug #withdrawl is no joke.

[@Paxhurts @Barbara45426641]

One year on from up dosing Paxil during debilitating withdrawal. I am still suffering from burning nerve pain in my eyes and head one day and pressure the next. Akathisia has mainly settled. Still left with tinnitus, neuralgia, & other horrible symptoms. Still on 14.9mg, scary…

[Susan Kingsley-Smith @Susan_Ks]

#psa

[PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction @PSSDNetwork]

@jk_rowling There’s a similar situation with SSRIs and children. The pharmaceutical companies chose both to conceal the lack of benefits and the possibility of terrible harms. This woman suffers from permanent harm (PSSD) due to an SSRI she took as an 11-year-old.
https://t.co/XBwBkgfRmp

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Pick your health expert.

[Dr. Josef @DrJosefWD]

Would you have taken antidepressants if you knew...

1) They could cause permanent sexual dysfunction
2) The could cause severe brain damage (Protracted withdrawal)
3) That stopping them could be one of the hardest things you ever did in your entire life

And that it was impossible to predict you would get these side effects....

Refs included since people still don't believe stuff this horrific could be real:
1) https://t.co/gZXSpMvxFD
2)https://t.co/aop3YItpqk
3) https://t.co/VavMvJ53bq

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Benzodiazepines destroy lives
Klonopin
Xanax
Ativan
Librium
Valium
If your physician is prescribing these drugs for insomnia & anxiety they are incompetent. If they continue to write scripts for more than 30 days they are dangerous.

If prescribing to children I want them in jail