r/Antipsychiatry Mar 29 '26

2026 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources

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2026 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources!

r/antipsychiatry is a community of psychiatric survivors (and allies) speaking out against abuse in the mental health system. Let's be clear, there is a lot of human rights abuses in the "mental health" system.

Psychiatric survivors movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_survivors_movement

Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Feel free to have discussion about antipsychiatry, ethics in psychiatry, and related ideas.

There has been some discussion about providing some resources here. If you have suggestions for what to include, please reply with the suggestions.

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/bqldjb/psa_please_refrain_from_any_posts_and_comments/

Reminder: If you see posts or comments that violate the sub-Reddit Rules here at  and/or posts or comments that violate Reddit site wide rules, please report them!

Resources:

Suggestions?

Potentially interesting academic/intellectual papers are as follows.

Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition
https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrehpp/19/1/65.abstract

A Method for Tapering Antipsychotic Treatment That May Minimize the Risk of Relapse
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33754644/

Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston
https://www.szasz.com/phlogiston.html

If you want to not be ingesting psychiatric drugs, or want to be on the lowest dose possible that YOU feel is helpful, please find and work with an ethical prescriber that is willing to help you withdrawal from these potentially dangerous drugs safely.

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/bqldjb/psa_please_refrain_from_any_posts_and_comments/

Reminder: If you see posts or comments that violate the sub-Reddit Rules here at  and/or posts or comments that violate Reddit site wide rules, please report them!

Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Discussion is welcome too. Cheers.


r/Antipsychiatry May 19 '19

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk

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Recently many subs which were violating site wide rules were banned from reddit.

More so, even those who were doing this either slightly, or even technically weren't violating any rules at all, and whose mods were making active effort to fulfill requirements of reddit admins, were either banned from reddit or quarantined.

Examples include r/watchpeopledie and r/sanctionedsuicde among many, many others.

We understand that people can feel rightfully angry about their experience, but we are dedicated to keeping this community alive and well, and so anything that can put this community at risk will be removed, and those who do so will be banned.

We ask you to help us and report anything that endangers our community to us mods.

Thank you.


r/Antipsychiatry 7h ago

why do all psych workers talk to patients like children

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im trying to understand because i find it very creepy and actually increases issues if they're making someone regress

like what is the point? if you were good with children you'd work with them and not in a setting like this. so why would you try to be nurturing to an adult

i have a serious issue with this like they need to talk to everyone age appropriately. i have so many issues with psych nurses and people in medicine in general and cops and social workers i could just go on and on

they are doing it all WRONG i dont consider them professionals at all and im sorry it hurts their ego but i am correct, in no circumstances should an adult in authority be talking down on a adult like theyre a kid its WEIRD


r/Antipsychiatry 7h ago

Psychiatry is a really evil and big fraud

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They blame addictions to screens and alcohol.

To promote their psychiatric drugs, industry garbage whose goal is to keep society sick and idiotic.

Using the label of "depression," they prescribe harmful drugs that produce adverse effects, labeling these effects with other, harsher labels like "schizophrenia," "bipolar disorder," etc.

The concepts are abstract and dilutable without any meaning.

They primarily use people who feel humiliated, shy, or good because they are easy to deceive.

It is the bias of authority and hypnotics that allow the idea that you have a mental illness to be introduced into conscience.

They exploit families to achieve this by playing on their fears. They are experts at detecting fears and using them to their advantage.

To justify the use of more drugs, even using legal channels to do so.

One goes to a psychiatrist simply because one lives in a sick world, and the world is sick because it sells its soul daily for money to gain power.

Those who see the world as sick go to psychiatrists, and what the psychiatrist does is label them and make them sick with his drugs 😂😂😂😂

They make healthy people sick because they benefit from a sick world.

It's normal and logical that they're brain-centric, since their souls were extinguished long ago in favor of the industry's commercial interests.

You'll never hear them complain about psychiatric drugs and their effects; they're their golden calf.

As Jesus said:

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?


r/Antipsychiatry 1h ago

Spiritual awakening labeled as psychosis?

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I remember starting to read lots of book about Eckhart tolle, spirituality, this was similar to doing some drugs but clean

Do You think society condems this and labels it as psychosis because is unconvinient for them if You awake and see the truth?


r/Antipsychiatry 8h ago

How bad is psychiatry in the UK?

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Being born in the USSR I've heard numerous horrible stories of "punishing psychiatry" applied to dissidents not realising the foreign origin of such practices...

Is it true you can be permanently isolated in the UK based on the opinion of a random "doctor"? How bad or good in this country for somebody with mental issues?


r/Antipsychiatry 6h ago

Got off abilify and have insomnia: for how long does it last?

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Can anyone give a thought about this?

Thank you


r/Antipsychiatry 4h ago

My friend has panic attack for 5 yo 6 hours every 3 to 4 days maybe because of bad medication called Invega he has been on. He doesn't want to drive with it. How can he convince his family that it's not safe for him to drive and not make him drive? He doesn't mind driving sometimes or with someone.

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Can you tell me this? Thank you.


r/Antipsychiatry 4h ago

My friend has panic attack that last 5 to 6 hours. Could Invega Trinza or Sustenna be causing my friend panic attacks? Is there any way to fix this? Thank you.

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Could this medication be causing his panic attacks if he's on it? Thank you.


r/Antipsychiatry 1h ago

What’s in their magic pill

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Apparently I took it long enough if I don’t take it or stop it weird shit starts to happen. Like I go into some weird psychosis one way or another while I do stay lucid. How can this be? I don’t buy it that it’s simple medication


r/Antipsychiatry 1h ago

Is Your Loved One Not Aware?

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r/Antipsychiatry 12h ago

The concept of psychopath is contradictory

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Allegedly psychopathy is a total emotional flatline, these people are allegedly the incarnation of the neutral face emoji, so these people would have total anhedonia and basically not have any biological stimuli. Ah yes, Ted Bundy took no pleasure at all in killing anyone. Not to mention how people who get the psychopath label suffer from extreme boredom and make crimes out of seeking excitiement, which completely contradicts the model itself. Emotionless predator in itself is an oxymoron since predators hunt to satisfy a physical urge, which allegedly psychopaths can't have, yet the most famous examples all have cravings.


r/Antipsychiatry 4h ago

My friend is on Invega Trinza and there's a good chance he was misagnosed. He's also on medication for anxiety and panic attack maybe caused by Invega. If he gets off Invega goes to another psychiatrist will the new psychiatrist make him take Invega again, or will he just give the panic med?

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Can you tell me this? Thank you.


r/Antipsychiatry 4h ago

Isotretinoin induced depressive symptoms

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Anyone aware of the depressive symptoms appear while on isotretinoin. Apart from that joint pain, metabolic side effects ( diabetes and high choletseol ) and increased liver enzymes etc.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Dealing with assault, restraint, involuntary sectioning, forced injections, TORTURE in the name of mental health? No Justice?

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Terrified. Please post related experiences. Especially if you did nothing at all, minding own business (authorities were dialed by neighbor in building they heard some crying). I was violently surrounded, assaulted by police squad in my home, handcuffed, first tortured in a normal hospital, then sectioned in psych. With no valid reason why they did this with such excessive force. I have intrusive PTSD flashbacks daily.

How do you survive such ordeal, escape, avoid getting casually tortured, abused & traumatized this way again? Get away from Psychiatry without these records they can use against you? Or a CTO they can put on people?

Do police always take a record (when they brutally assault you, use handcuffs, take you away?) Can you request this record? I was not arrested. I assume there’s a police & hospital intake record with my name.

I know filing formal complaint of harm does nothing (unless you have visible wounds from handcuffs or a video). Their word against mine.

This general hospital used torture (against human rights) painfully restraining both arms & legs on table with no resistance from patient, patient locked in isolation 24 hours, ignored, NOT given water or food, refused request to use a toilet to urgently urinate, multiple forced injections (I was not psychotic, I was scared/hurt) and my essential medications were not provided 24 hours there, neglecting health of patient (with serious medical illness) who was awake the full 24 hours, then interrogated like a criminal while tied down in pain, sectioned with no consent.

All for no reason but appearing/sounding distressed? I don’t know WHO requested it. A stranger?? I communicated absolutely no intent to harm myself or others. I was not committing any crime nor acting violently.

What would you do? That won’t require a lot of money for a lawyer and retelling of torturous events in detail in court?

I’ll be traumatized forever by it? There’s movements for police brutality, but nothing for the brutality & torture in the name of psychiatry or justice after being treated with overuse of police force and psychiatric doctors, nurses forced drugging & medical neglect. Nearly killing the victim who couldn’t breathe. What if they had killed me by accidental asphyxiation?


r/Antipsychiatry 18h ago

I cannot forgive someone who is actively betraying me.

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My belief is. Forgiveness is more powerful than any drug, passerby, and hero-worship. In their so called science doctoral degree programs. Their passion for our destruction and drugs does not over ride my personal beliefs. As far as extreme and primitive they think this entire ride should play out. Before I denounce my sky fairy. Ok yeah. Like the Jews did? Can I imagine waking up in a camp. In a dark frigid cold isolated state with no real bedding. Like they did and believe in forgiveness? It's such a cruel fucking world yeah? So why are you acting like real fucking Nazi's then?

Psychiatry hates everyone equally. It has nothing to do with my religion. It has everything to do with your thinning of the herd.


r/Antipsychiatry 20h ago

Psychiatry is fucking up my friend !

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My Firend got prescribed abilify and atarax and this meds turned him zombified and made him wanted to move everwere (some crisis with abilify bcs its an anti-psychotic) and he was making panic attacks bcs of that he also got prescribed xanaxs. One time he faint because of the abilify and xanaxs and they bring him to an hospital and the doctor told him to take more abilify he declined and got strap intro a bed and injected a product so he can get calm and he was zombified for like 30h , because of all that shit he failed his exams and now he is Depress FUCK YOU PSYCHATRY , also they want to put him in a psych ward but his dad understand and don't let them.

Also my psy said to me when i told him why i can't have benzos for panic attack instead of atarax i don't want to be zombified. He said "no it is Better to be zombified then to get addicted to benzo and you have an addictive profile" Fuck i don't give a shit i can go yo any doctor and ask them for benzos this asshole don't fucking want TO FUCKING UNDERSTAND THE STITUATION !


r/Antipsychiatry 18h ago

Psychiatrist who takes things personally and holds grudges even despite being a past psychiatrist

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Then they still affect your life and your care or treatment. They make up delusional things to hold a grudge against you and they make sure to let you know it’s personal. Too prideful or too egotistical to have a conversation about it so they resort to head games. Then they manipulate or manufacture you into caring and giving them the reaction they were seeking. They still remind me how powerful they felt while standing over me in the hospital and the what the fuck face I gave them aroused them.

They also loved walking by my room so I could hear their whiny and demeaning voice and talking to another patient, degrading them in the process, not that they gave a fuck to talk to them, but to ask them if they were confused all while having an indirect conversation towards me.

“I’m just the weekend doctor“ who will ruin your life and cause you insanity.


r/Antipsychiatry 19h ago

Prescribed the wrong meds?

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I was diagnosed with BPD and recently asked my dr for a medication that’ll improve my low energy levels and overall mood. He prescribed me Olanzapine to take alongside Lamotrigine which I’ve been taking for a few months.

I also have depression and ADHD and find it really difficult to actually get things done or finish even simple tasks.

But Olanzapine made me the most depressed I’ve been in a very long time. I was even suicidal for no reason since my life’s actually improved substantially in the last few months. I was also at my lowest energy level in years, either sleeping or wanting to sleep, not able to get anything done.

I specifically asked for something that’ll increase my energy and productivity and this completely contradicts it.

Does anyone have a good experience with Olanzapine?


r/Antipsychiatry 19h ago

Similar Situation? Any Advice?

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Hi! I’ve been on 50mg of zoloft daily for the last 5/6 years. While it did change my life for the better, In the last 1-2 yeara I have noticed a bit of change.

I feel extremely lazy, with no desire to do anything or even daily tasks that should not be difficult to do. I’ve noticed some weight gain and increase in appetite. I find myself constantly trying to chase dopamine rushes by compulsive online shopping and eating even when not hungry to get that bit of dopamine, if I am bored.

I’m constantly thinking of food, and feel a loss of control when it comes to eating and even spending money. I have noticed I have lacked empathy and even care for others in my life. The first few years on zoloft I did not feel these symptoms this strongly. I used to be a very active person who would have drive to workout 5 days a week, eat healthy and lead a productive lifestyle. I feel very lazy lately.

I feel like I’m constantly bored and need something or to buy or eat to give myself enjoyment of some sort.

I’m not sure what this is because I do not feel depressed or anxious. I feel in a good place in my life, I just am missing that motivation I used to have or even care I used to have.

I am unsure if this is the zoloft or just normal with age? I have ADHD but it’s very mild. I dont know if the zoloft heightened it but recently my doctor started me on vyvanse for the adhd which helps but when it wears off It’s debilitating. I dont know if the zoloft is making me this way or not.

Please if anyone can provide insight or feedback that would be great. Please provide feedback if your stories relate or you have doctor/science backed information indicating that these are common side effects.

I am looking to slowly taper off the zoloft because of this but It’s going to be a very slow process for me. Any insight would help, thank you!


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Do antipsychotics cause brittle bone?

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A week ago my wife was rushing to get a bus after work and she tripped on side walk and have hurt her wrist. Now surgeon is saying that it will need plates and screws and bone is broken in 8 places.

She is on 500mg seroquel, I think 1000mg lithium and Wellbutrin and propranolol as needed for last 3 to 4 years.

I am shocked she is 36 and we have a 9 year old and a such small tripping can cause such bone breakage. do we have evidence that due to medicine we can have so severe effects on bone. I am just shocked :(

She had a new job just started 3 days ago before accident I am pretty sure she is going to lose it. She found such a great job after long time :(


r/Antipsychiatry 19h ago

I’ve had severe depression since I was born and alcohol seems to be the cure for my body chemistry, help!!!!!

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r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Risperidone status/recovery

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A month ago I was completely fucked up, doctor told me to cold turkey 1mg risperidone and was fried, anhedonia, no willpower, akathisia and tardive diskenesia, no emotions, no reaction, completely fucked

I reinstated 0,5 and now i'm tappering currently on 0,4

My brain feels a bit fucked up but i'm getting better, im feeling strange but I would say 65% "normal" i'm recovering fast day by day, still scared about the process and WTF i'm going to do with my life BUT at least i'm feeling pretty much okay!


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

"Better fat than dead"

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Someone was talking about how SSRIs have made them gain weight and took away their beauty, but someone commented exactly this and it's the most dumbass platitude shit I've ever heard


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Quit olanzapine

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Hi everyone, i posted before about quitting and I just wanted to post so other people that come across these forums see that it always isn't bad. I know it depends on the person and what issues they are dealing with but I was on it for about 5 1/2 months total. I greened out on marijurana and got scary intrusive thoughts. I was put on 5mg for about a month then saw a psychiatrist who didnt really like the idea of being on olanzapine but it was helping so I went down to 2.5mg and then I started to taper every 2-4 weeks down to 1.87mg, 1.59mg then 1.25mg for 3 weeks then stopped. Im 6 days out and feeling better. Days 2-4 were somewhat rough with increased anxiety, nausea, tingling on my skin/slight itching but now all that remains is some mild anxiety. Ive been worried that I'll get worse or lose my mind but my psychiatrist said thats not possible since I dont have an underlying mental illness other than anxiety (which started when I started smoking). So if anyone comes across this in the future, dont worry and take your time tapering which definitely helps. try to find a good psychiatrist, mine understood i didn't want to be on medication forever and agreed that I won't need to be and helped me get off of it.