I’m posting a correspondence between myself and a long-time reader and friend who has dealt with severe protracted withdrawal issues much like my own.
We who choose to come off psych meds and then especially those of us who end up with serious long term protracted issues from the drugs have only one another to help us through the grave illness. Doctors, in general, have no idea what to do with us and often cause further harm if they attempt to treat us since they don’t know what they’re dealing with. And then worse, many MDs actually deny that what is happening to us has anything to do with iatrogenic harm. It’s too hard for them to face up to the reality of their own responsibility in this epidemic of medical injury.
So, we turn to one another to find a way through the darkest times of our lives. I’ve had many mentors that helped me get through the toughest times…men and women both who went before me. And now, through this blog, and also in some long-standing relationships I developed in the trenches, I give back to those still in the hardest phases.
[For more of this story, written by Monica Cassani, go to http://beyondmeds.com/2014/02/19/correspondence/]
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