The Semantics of Psychiatric Medication

Are they medicines, drugs or toxins?

For around two decades I have mostly taken my psychiatric medication as (repeat) prescribed as a matter of ‘relapse prevention’ and I’ve come to a serious conclusion about them which my human nature practically knew all along from the beginning but hey, no one believed me since I was supposedly too ‘crazy’ to be listened to rationally from what I had suspected way back.

Definition of a psychiatric medication

According to Wikipedia, “a psychiatric or psychotropic medication is a psychoactive drug taken to exert an effect on the chemical makeup of the brain and nervous system. Thus, these medications are used to treat mental illnesses.”¹

It’s quite a brilliantly short and concise definition which tells us a few things:

1. It’s a psychotropic drug that forces the patient on a hallucinatory ‘mind trip’ back to a normalised or altered reality inline with socially acceptable behaviour.

2. It affects the physical brain and nervous system and creates iatrogenic issues and chemical imbalances that never existed before.

3. They’re used to treat ‘mental illnesses’ as described by popular consensus in publications like the DSM and ICD which has more to do with political correction before any actual medical science.

Conclusion

The mental health industry released a wave of multi-level misnomers in it’s insane marketing of ‘safe and effective’ psychiatric medication for treating mental illness. My previous Tweet summarises this as below:

Joseph Harvey @JosephHarvey01

[Psychiatric Medication] (supposedly 'medicinal' treating a brain disease) is a misnomer for [Psychotropic Drugs] (that which alters your mental state to 'treat' the counterfeit brain disease) which is a misnomer for [Neurotoxins] (which cause iatrogenic issues). #prescribedharm

In short, what the mental health industry calls ‘medication’ is in fact a neurotoxin that causes iatrogenic issues as listed in the typical side effects including the infamous weight gain and metabolic problems, plus other more devious effects that one would think had more to do with getting older while taking them over the long term. For example, upon my significantly reducing to an ineffectual dosage with a view to full discontinuation I have regained my ability and motivation to write, a new sense of verve, easier abstinence over some previous impulse control behaviours and generally a diminished fear to start something old/new that I had been meaning to get on with. Other minor ailments have almost miraculously disappeared which I thought were age related but in fact were due to the perpetual drugging from the repeat prescription that I have largely and ironically even paid for albeit begrudgingly over the years (i.e. why willingly pay for something ingested that causes covert and overt harms to one’s self, against better judgement?).

Joseph Harvey @JosephHarvey01

The perpetual irony of paying for an NHS repeat prescription for yet another supply of iatrogenic issue causing psychotropic drugs your human nature says is no good for your health again. #prescribedharm

It’s rather a shame that it’s taking this long to draw conclusions on something which could have ended years ago if I had not been continuously gaslighted into believing any of my previous ‘orchestrated craziness’ was a real disorder that simply isn’t.

And so, like Andy Dufresne in the film The Shawshank Redemption² this drugging (for life) is coming to a close and I don’t expect any more setbacks going forward once I deprescribe fully with my safest tapering routine yet.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_medication

2. https://shawshank.fandom.com/wiki/Andy_Dufresne