Soteria-Alaska was established to provide an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization under the principles established by the beloved, late Dr. Loren Mosher in his Soteria-House project for people who want to try something other than psychotropic drugs. Read More here: Continue Reading…
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Online support for psychiatric drug withdrawal: This blog is, in part, a documentation of my journey off psychiatric medications as well as an introduction to alternative forms of care for mental health disorders regardless of whether one is on medications, off medications, or coming off medications. This blog also deals in general with socio/political and spiritual issues as they pertain to mental health and human rights issues surrounding psychiatry. For additional collections of such themed posts look at the tabs on the top of the page. It makes navigating the rest of the archives much easier. This blog also serves as a source of critical information about psychopharmaceuticals. This blog may be appropriate for anyone with any psychiatric diagnosis. All diagnosis can potentially respond to natural treatments. It’s possible for anyone to consider life without medication. This blog is a contemplation about healing ourselves through means other than medication whether you’re on medications or not. And I might add whether you choose to stay on them or not. Along with documentation of my experience this blog covers the journeys to drug freedom of many other people as well as information and resources about alternatives to standard psychiatric care. It also covers the news about drugs that allow for consideration of other options. Often drugs are most useful in crisis, but not for long-term care. Once one is aware of options one has a real choice. I didn’t have such information to make a choice when I entered the mental health system. It’s my hope that I can help people see that there are choices and alternatives. This site is in no way intended to be someone’s sole source of information for withdrawing from psych meds or for taking care of oneself with alternative means. I speak only from my own experience and am not offering advice that should be taken without professional help. That being said there is lots of Continue Reading…
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This web site is dedicated to sufferers of iatrogenic benzodiazepine tranquilliser addiction everywhere. Launched on July 6, 2000 with a dozen pages this site now has more than 1200 pages of articles and information, expert medical documents, news stories and personal accounts. Read More here: Continue Reading…
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This website aims to give you up to date information about psychiatric medication, how it functions and the withdrawal process. It is put together by people who have been prescribed medication and withdrawn from it, and clinicians who have been involved in supporting this process. If we have a period of distress or confusion and receive medical help we are generally given a diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric drugs. Research suggests doctors tend to know more about putting people on medication than the actual withdrawal process. It is important therefore to disseminate information about the ‘coming off’ process. Read more here: Continue Reading…
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The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of ‘mental illness’ rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are often diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions. We believe these experiences are mad gifts needing cultivation and care, rather than diseases or disorders. By joining together as individuals and as a community, the intertwined threads of madness, creativity, and collaboration can inspire hope and transformation in an oppressive and damaged world. Participation in The Icarus Project helps us overcome alienation and tap into the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness Read More Here: Continue Reading…
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The world-wide first book about “Successful coming down from psychiatric drugs.” With experience-reports of 28 (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatric drugs from all over the world and additional articles of psychotherapists, physicians, psychiatrists, natural healers and other professionals helping withdraw. With prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Pirkko Lahti and Loren R. Mosher. Closing words by Karl Bach Jensen. Contributions by Regina Bellion, Carola Bock, Wilma Boevink, Michael Chmela, Bert Gölden, Ilse Gold, Gábor Gombos, Katalin Gombos, Maths Jesperson, Klaus John, Manuela Kälin, Kerstin Kempker, Leo P. Koehne, Jan Kuypers, Elke Laskowski, Peter Lehmann, Ulrich Lindner, Iris Marmotte, Constanze Meyer, Harald Müller, Eiko Nagano, Mary Nettle, Una M. Parker, Nada Rath, Erwin Redig, Hannelore Reetz, Roland A. Richter, Marc Rufer, Jasna Russo, Lynne Setter, Martin Urban, Wolfgang Voelzke, David Webb, Gerda Wozart, Josef Zehentbauer and Katherine Zurcher. Translations by Chie Ishii, Mary Murphy, Ivanka Popovic and Christina White. Read more here: Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Continue Reading…
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