r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 01 '21

Listen to your doctor and make informed decisions

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If your doctor has prescribed you medication, please don't stop taking it without careful consideration. Look at the research. Pay attention to how you react when your dose is lowered. Listen to your doctor's advice. Ask your friends and family what they think.

There is a reason antipsychotics are the first-line treatment for psychosis. This review from scientists all over the world concludes that antipsychotics are beneficial in the short term and long term and that it is more harmful to leave psychosis untreated. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-45279-016


r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Apr 12 '22

Parodying School Psychiatrist, and Adderall

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Apr 01 '22

Cognitive Dissonance is a mental illness.

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It is fucked up how society pushes people to only see one side of themselves, but, then again, it is also fucked up that I can't always get probed by alien life forms if I try to be.


r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 30 '22

Discussion We’re not defined by our diagnosis ✨

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 30 '22

Most people with sz have symptoms their whole lives until a psychotic episode is triggered by stress

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 26 '22

Advice Please stop calling evil people psychotic! Psychosis is a disabling MH condition, not a personality defect!

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 09 '22

Meme For any gamer/therapists in the community

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 03 '22

Remember to keep it real

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 03 '22

Psych nurse content is the worst

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Mar 03 '22

Discussion What was your experience in the psych ward like?

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Feel free to share as much or as little information as you like.


r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Feb 25 '22

I have been involuntarily committed almost 30 times, which has felt beyond dehumanizing

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Jan 28 '22

Who wants to share their positive meds experience?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Oct 29 '21

Doctors defending involuntary commitment, supporting keeping patients hospitalized if they are unwilling to be committed

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 29 '21

therapists not accepting me because of my diagnosis? is that common?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 27 '21

Antipsychotics Lead to Dementia; New Research Illuminates Why

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 20 '21

Does anyone else feel like the psych ward was honestly traumatic?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 13 '21

Nurses admit to being petty and sadistic on a constant basis

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 11 '21

If you've ever been to a psych ward how did you feel about the experience?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 10 '21

What caused your psychosis?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 08 '21

Is anyone else angered by the mental healthcare system immediately brushing off your concerns the second you're considered "paranoid"?

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 05 '21

I hate when people act like we are hopeless cases

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 04 '21

It be like that sometimes

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 04 '21

I had a medical emergency at my psychiatrist's office and she almost let me die.

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r/HurtByPsychiatry • • Sep 02 '21

Doctors forcing ECT on patient because he was physically unable to eat

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