Apologies if this is considered spammy or anything, remove if this isn't allowed.

I'm a PROUDLY disabled person and advocate for reform in mental healthcare, substance abuse recovery, and (especially) the justice system. I'm a student currently researching the intersections between mental health, shortcomings in accessibility of care, and one's likelihood of being arrested. I'm sure you know where this is going.

If you're willing, I'd love to hear responses from folks in this community. Please note that, while my survey is long and does contain references to topics that may be triggering (life ending, hurting, substance abuse, etc.), respondents can (and are encouraged to) skip over any section that is too sensitive for them. I want to hear your story without it causing harm to you. So, please, share as much (or as little) as you're comfortable with. It's all helpful.

Check out the survey here. I'm accepting answers until Nov 01 2023.

EDIT: A note about information disclosure/informed consent:

I’m just an undergraduate student, so my research is very informal, and very limited in scope. I don’t have a prof overseeing me; I’m doing this of my own volition. I’m presenting later this semester (in a capstone course) about rehabilitative justice, mental illness in corrections, etc. I thought about my experiences with psych hospitals, so I thought it could be useful to hear other peoples’ experiences with corrections, psych treatment, and substance use.

I will be presenting my project, including some (but likely not all) of the findings of this survey twice: once privately (in my class), and later that same day publicly (for a small student organisation I’m in that’s interested in the topic). I have no interest in publishing these results anywhere, nor do I intend to share the detailed results (i.e., complete, but still anonymous, reports) with anyone else. It’ll just be “x% of respondents picked choice A instead of B or C” and select redacted quotes provided by participants. I’m not trying to do any groundbreaking work or make any profound academic statement. I’m not funded by anyone, nor do I have any interest in profiting off of this. I just want to hear peoples’ stories and hopefully get a better perspective so I can personally learn more.

I underline this in the survey itself, but all of this is of course anonymous. the only break in anonymity is if people CHOOSE to give a contact email for further interviews. However, I do not want peoples’ names (I specifically asked for an alias) and the ONLY person who will see any of that info is me, behind my locked, 2FA-backed account. It’s secure. I’ll probably use encrypted email when I reach out to folks too, just for added protection. And when I quote folks? It’ll be “respondent 1 said this” and such. No names or initials or anything.

If you have ANY other questions about disclosure, info sharing, etc., PLEASE ask. I only want to be transparent. I’m just a student who wants to make a cohesive and meaningful presentation.

when doing medical internship in non english speaking countries like Italy should we learn the language to communicate with the patients in clinical experience, I'm a Sri Lankan A/L student who is currently doing A/S edexcel exams

PLs help me by replying to this post

Hi everyone. I'm a UK based freelance journalist working on an article about multivitamins and why on earth so many people take them when the evidence that they do anything for many of the people who take them regularly has so many holes!

• Any experts on here with big opinions on the topic?
• Or anyone who has taken them in the past and noticed any difference, or none at all!?

Thank you!

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Take drugs, look handsome

The real story of psychiatry. Part 4.

‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests

For decades, psychiatry in collusion with pharmaceutical companies and to a lesser degree device manufacturers, has turned the subject of mental health into a for-profit free-for-all where patients have become repeat customers. ‘Mental health’ is only what psychiatry and pharma marketing campaigns want to say it is, ignoring inconvenient facts such as the cause of mental illnesses are never found and no one is ever actually cured.

https://perlanterna.com/real-story-of-psychiatry-cat/4-mental-health-is-defined-and-controlled-by-profit-driven-commercial-interests/

The real story of psychiatry. Part 3.

The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation. The drugs are over-marketed, only suppress symptoms, result in damaging side effects, have questionable efficacy, and the actual causes of mental illness are never addressed.

https://perlanterna.com/real-story-of-psychiatry-cat/psychiatrys-lack-of-science-masked-by-pharmaceuticals/

Do you create art?

Have you ever been on prescription psych medications?

Take our brief survey here and help us learn about possible non-physical side-effects of psych medications for artists. Side effects like this are typically not researched and not reported.

*We are a small group of students who have been affected by this issue personally and want to learn about others experiences. We are not professional for profit researchers.

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Pretty much bloodletting is when you remove blood from the body in one way or another. This can be done in various ways including leeches and/or withdrawing blood from the body like is done during a blood donation. Usually the body ends up making new healthy blood after the bloodletting and the introduction of the healthy blood decreases the toxins in the blood stream.

My thought was that bloodletting could be done to reduce the presence of psych drugs in the blood stream over time (although it is unlikely to eliminate it completely). This could be helpful for people who are forcefully injected or have pills shoved down their throat as they would have a way of removing at least some of the psych drugs from their system. This method would also be more difficult to detect by psych torturers compared to other methods.

The real story of psychiatry. Part 2.

‘Modern psychiatry’ didn’t evolve. It was limited to merely ‘biological psychiatry’ and stage managed into existence by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s and forced on the subject of medicine using millions of dollars of funding.

The Foundation wanted psychiatry, an activity of ‘strange cults and theories’, to become a valid science but by the late 1940s, they knew they had failed. Psychiatry then, just as now, has no scientific foundation at all.

https://perlanterna.com/real-story-of-psychiatry/rockefeller-foundation-the-failure-of-psychiatry-as-a-science/

The real story of psychiatry. Part 1.

If the actual causes of mental illness were found and people were cured, then the billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies and payments to induce support, including to psychiatry itself, would disappear.

https://perlanterna.com/real-story-of-psychiatry/the-real-simple-story-and-the-beginnings-of-modern-psychiatry/

So I know this is silly to some but I really want to bring awareness to the high cost of insulin and diabetic supplies etc. It is outrageous and killing us. I made a petition and would love to collect as many signatures and have it shared as much as possible. This could bring awareness to the voters in our country and some politicians that we are watching and know who is against helping us. Idk it may be dumb but it's my last hope. Please sign and share. It's totally free so nothing to lose.

https://chng.it/Bk7b5hMbbG

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(6) The reason for the name Clozapine . . : Antipsychiatry (reddit.com)

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Hello r/ScumbagMedicine

We are Medicating Normal-The Film. You can find our website at medicatingnormal.com
We decided to come over to the sub and say hello and also invite you all to join us on July 11th for a private virtual community screening of the film. The film is not yet released to the public, so community screenings like this one are the only opportunity to see the film before its official release in 2021.

To get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/benzodiazepine-information-coalition-presents-medicating-normal-for-w-bad-tickets-107770115316

Please feel free to share the above in other subs, and with your friends, family, and social networks.

We hope to see some of you at the July 11 screening and post-screening community discussion. We feel the dialogue after the film is as important as the film, and we welcome all respectful voices and perspectives to join in.

Thank you,
The Medicating Normal Team

P.S. We are always looking to form partnerships so if you are aware of any organizations or conferences, etc. that would potentially like to screen our film to an audience, please have them contact us or share their info with us at medicatingnormal@gmail.com - Thanks!