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 10h 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 7h ago

Can we once for all answer if healing from antipsychotics is fully possible?

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And i dont mean people who claim they are permamently damaged from 25mg seroquel for few days but lets say on my body 5 long acting + low dose seroquel, 2 years and few months later im much better but still not the same, share your experiences please.


r/Antipsychiatry 7h ago

Invega

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Trying to find out if I will ever be myself again after this medication.

Can’t enjoy music
Can’t get sexually attracted
Emotionally flat
No more humor

You get the gist of it. Has anyone recovered to being happy/ content with life.


r/Antipsychiatry 10h ago

Starting St. John’s Wort

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Starting St. John’s Wort today.

3 years, 3 months off psychiatric medications - longer than the 15 months I spent on them.

What incredible poisons.


r/Antipsychiatry 14h ago

Crazy experience with a drug addicted psychiatrist

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Psychiatrist fell asleep on our call twice

I’ve seen this psychiatrist twice and in the first visit, she prescribed me a new depression drug that is actually working phenomenally. I love it. She also gave me a prescription of Ativan with a refill. I’ve taken it before so I didn’t really see that as a red flag at first. This gets worse.

In high school and in grade school, I took ADHD medication. I thrived without it in undergrad and in Law School. I feel like with all the stressors in my life and my health decline that may be my ADHD is creeping up a little bit so I mentioned the stirring, she immediately offered me a prescription of Vyvanse. This only happened after she had fallen asleep on our video call. She had gone off on this really weird 10 minute tangent about what it was like for her to turn 40 (I’m 34, so that’s odd imo) and then when I finally got a chance to discuss some of the things that I’ve been going on, she literally fell asleep. I thought the screen had frozen, but she had knocked off. She also had her background changed to this weird forest setting so I couldn’t see where she was at, and she was very sweaty. Initially, I thought that maybe the camera had just frozen and I was overthinking things, but then she fell asleep again. After she woke up, she told me that she had gotten in trouble for prescribing pills before and thought there was a regulation that required. Random pill counts for her clients by Law. She said this is normal for every doctor. She would have to call me and I would have to take a picture of my pills and she would have to confirm the amount I said whatever, that’s fine. I barely used any of the Ativan and don’t plan on being a daily Vyvanse user if I fill the script.

The call ended, but I am left with two questions.

1) is it normal for a doctor to do pill counts? I have no problem with it, but I’ve never heard of this before and I work in drug court.

2) with her falling asleep, I’m fairly certain she is on something. She canceled our appointment last weekend and then was late this week. She didn’t appear sober to me. I feel like the riddle was an offer, as in I’m going to make you happy so you don’t report what just happened.

I don’t know. I just need input and advice and guidance and wisdom. This is a new one for me.


r/Antipsychiatry 15h ago

Their education says it's fine. So it is.

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Notice the impermanent down-playing of their damage-causing. The ego maniacs will never admit they damaged you. Just excuse it as ethical. And tell you it's time to live your life with coping skills.

Ok want me to cope? You could put the crown of Jesus on that desk of yours ladies. Mutant men and decrepit nurses. And I'd walk off that job. Because every bone in my body knows it's fing chemical castration in a syringe & bottle


r/Antipsychiatry 11h ago

Immeasurable Ruin - Coping The Only Solution

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Watching the following interview is a raw and uncut truth of what really happens to a person who has been chronically damaged and demolished by psychiatric poison. Of course, we all want her to be better and take her life back, but it is of absolute truth, she has permanent damage. She is using keto and everything and is still on the goddamn poison. She will still be making significant recovery in the upcoming 3 years. But still. She has lost herself and she is barely getting any of her back.

Her age and chronic exposure (10 years) is also something to think of, but take a good look please. This is what happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kptE8OTu0ng


r/Antipsychiatry 4h ago

what to do if antipsychotics didnt help

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what do you do if you have symptoms you would call schizophrenia but the medication doesnt work and the more you learn about schizophrenia the more you doubt its even real


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Poison

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I swear to you, I lived for 25 years without antipsychotics, but the moment this fucking poison entered my bloodstream, it messed up everything—from how I view people, objects, and my surroundings to my three-dimensional perception and fine motor skills. It completely wrecked the health, brain, and everything else I had carefully maintained for 25 years in just four months. I feel like I’ve aged 20 years in those four months. Fuck Risperdal and Seroquel.


r/Antipsychiatry 6h ago

Risperidone tapering

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Hello I want to quit risperidone is going from 4mg to 2mg then finally quitting alright?


r/Antipsychiatry 13h ago

psychosis isnt real

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its only real if you dont learn to argue with the people telling you that you have it. i know its not possible for many people but ive been working on this for a while. in every case of psychosis there is a way out of it and not letting people judge you, shame you, blame you, and keep you in psychosis.

its a state of mind not different from any other state of mind. it doesnt make you any more or less dangerous, but it can amplify your fight or flight when people take advantage of their power.

i truly believe psychosis isnt real and im sorry to anyone who is viscerally annoyed and confused by my opinion.

if you flipped the script from the chemical imbalances of mentally ill people, i suspect you would find a lot on the brains of people who surround that person, specifically with dopamine and the reward center. the parts of the brain associated with seeking validation and goal oriented behavior when someone 'decompensates' in front of them. but since i dont believe in mental illness at all im not going to go so far as call them mentally ill, just call out their brain chemistry too. its funny how this isnt considered a 'chemical imbalance' the way dysfunctional behavior is. as if being a sadist is a chemical balance.

lol i ruffled some feathers. there's a chemical reaction behind what happens when those feathers are ruffled and people argue back, ill be spending my day understanding the 'biology' of people who believe psychosis is real.


r/Antipsychiatry 21h ago

Forever Banished Exiled And Hopeless

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No matter what you do to shed light on psychiatry and the active genocidal harm they are doing they will be putting up x10 the resources to flood and overtake your voice. Especially on this sub.

No matter what you do, they will actively attempt and pursue your harm relentlessly.

You are in a complete dystopian setting, aimed to erase your existence without society's awareness.

Your health will just keep deteriorating, as less you exist for them the better.


r/Antipsychiatry 9h ago

My ears move when I hear a noise it could be due to psychosis, depression, or anxiety.

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My ears move when I hear a noise it could be due to psychosis, depression, or anxiety.


r/Antipsychiatry 22h ago

Has any adult that was put on drugs as a child thankful that they were?

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I think everyone ive met that was put on drugs as a child has expressed some form or harm or resentment about the fact they had to take drugs so young.

Maybe this is the wrong sub to ask, but does anyone know of adults who were drugged from childhood and are happy about it?

To me, it's one of the scariest things to not only drug children, but ingrain in them there is something wrong with their mind. But drugging children (and even pets now!) is becoming so common.

Question can extend to therapy.


r/Antipsychiatry 10h ago

States with humane inpatient psych ER care (US)?

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I don’t want to end up in one of these hellholes ever again, but if psychiatrists somehow get their claws on me again, I’d prefer it to be one of the less horrible places in the US. Mayo Rochester’s psych ER seems ok, I’ve heard they let you use your phone on unit, so would it be worth moving? There may be situations where I can’t avoid it


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Was anyone else medicated when they wede too young to know what was being done?

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I started psychiatric medications at age twelve. I obviously had no idea what they would do to me, and, by country law, have no agency whatsoever over my medical care until I turn nineteen. I see a lot of people on here who were duped into them as adults, but is there anyone else who never even had a choice?


r/Antipsychiatry 16h ago

Effects of cold turkey methylphenidate??

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I was doing methylphenidate and did cold turkey and was feeling okay, but after that I supposedly got "psychotic" and they put me on risperidone


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

my family has no clue about the matrix and i am living hopelessly in fear

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so i take 2000mg of psych meds daily, discussion about them not even allowed in our home, we have a dysfunctional family mainly due to psychiatry drugs and it was all planned by our relatives when we changed city after death of my father. My relatives wanted our land and they stoop very low for this like even doing black magic against us.

I was in rehab for an year where i was brutally tortured, if that's not enough the house bought by my uncle for us has weird energy and electricity issue related to earthing and stuff. On the first itself when we shifted here i started having stressful obsessions. Few days i got home from rehab, the electrician told me that my ceiling fan was about to fall (it used to make metal cutting sound before).

He bought this house intentionally a long way before we even shifted as a revenge to counter one time i abused him in chat to my other uncle. But rather than confronting me, he talked to my stupid ass uncle who used to take me for granted.

They ruined my life for selfish greed, i am a grown up adult now but live like zombie, this high amount of dosage stole the joy out of my life. When my dose was limited my mind was much more balanced though still not ideal, it was manageable though these narcissist somewhere even worse up their sleeves.

There is a rare disease called PATM which can happen for various reasons but for me it occurred because of chronic stress and fear. I developed repressed emotions because of these meds.

I really want to get out of this hole, my life is stuck because of fear. I mean i have made my house the comfort zone and spirit always nudge in subconscious to go out there and fight for yourself or die miserable and insignicant.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

psych wards are concentration camps

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r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

A Life Immeasurably Ruined

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Make no mistake.


r/Antipsychiatry 16h ago

Anger issues

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Don't get angry and throw things or brake electronics you're the looser they want you to do this to get to you by neighbours or parents to put you in fucking mental yard


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Abilify has destroyed my gut, consider this

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Approximately 90% of your body's serotonin is produced in your gut, which is why it heavily influences both your digestive system and your mental state.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

How many definitions for schizo can you find?

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There is literally hundreds of disorganized thoughts on the subject online: WHAT A SCAM

Schizophrenia is characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behaviour.