This page provides a few resources to investigate if you, or someone you love is prescribed with psychiatric medications. If you are currently taking any psychiatric medications, you need to be extremely cautious when you attempt to stop. Be sure to visit Dr. Breggin’s website where you will find extensive resources on psychiatric drugs, how to safely withdraw from them, and alternatives.
Psychiatric Drugs Are More Dangerous than You Can Possibly Imagine. This 9 minute video, a heartfelt appeal by psychiatrist Peter R Breggin, MD, has received over 600,000K views.
Helping Deeply Disturbed Persons: In this 18 minute video Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin provides specific strategies and tips to help deeply disturbed persons without resorting to psychiatric drugs, electroshock treatment (ECT), or other biological, harmful, and ineffective approaches. Dr Breggin has a wealth of information in his books. These two are a good place to start: 1) Heart of Being Helpful and 2) Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their Families.
Dr Breggin on Drugs and Spirituality: A heartfelt one hour presentation made to the International Association of Biblical Counselors in August 2018. Dr Breggin speaks passionately about how to help children, and others, avoid psychiatric medications and why these medications are harmful. I highly recommend watching this talk if you or anyone you love is considering, or taking, psychiatric medications. You will discover an alternative approach that has only good side-effects.
Rational Principles of Psychopharmacology for Therapists, Healthcare Providers and Clients, Peter R Breggin, MD, 2015. Published in J Contemp Psychother, 12 June 2016. http://breggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/Breggin2016_RationalPrinciples.pdf
Brain damage, dementia and persistent cognitive dysfunction associated with neuroleptic drugs (1990), Breggin, PR. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11 (1990) 425-464.http://breggin.com/studies/braindamage.pbreggin.1990.pdf
After over 2 years of useless and expensive visits to a psychiatrist, I tried Scientology auditing and training. It was extremely effective, a near miracle, and I went from being a constantly anxious depressed person to being a cheerful, resourceful, powerful person, with a good career as an artist.
Hi Ellen
I’m glad you found help. I have noticed that Scientology seems to take a strong stand against psychiatric drugs. I’ve watched some documentaries they have produced. I think it is very important to fully research and understand that not everything that is ‘helpful’ is firmly based in truth. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life.” He is also the Prince of Peace. I’m glad you are no longer anxious and depressed, but I would encourage you to keep seeking the full truth about the life God designed you to have. I would encourage you to read the Bible, especially the words of Jesus as recorded in the accounts by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. If you would like to explore more about the background and foundation of Scientology, I found this interview with a woman who also found a lot of help from Scientology extremely informative.
Part 1 https://apologiastudios.com/cultish/cultish-escaping-scientology-part-1-lcOITcSQ
Part 2 https://apologiastudios.com/cultish/cultish-escaping-scientology-part-2-PpHi9F1p
Becky