Dr Breggin is a pioneer in this field. No psychiatric drugs for children. On a personal note: I was a victim advocate for children at Palm Beach Co, Fl Guardian ad Litem program. I saw kids who were truant taking 6 psychotropic drugs. I was appalled. After talking to one of these truant children, we found out the step dad was sexually molesting her and was running away to find her dad in WI. Tragic situation. Drugs should not be a substitute for exploring mental problems. I have often noticed that school shooters were being treated with harsh drugs administered for trans children. This is a concern that needs more attention.
practitioners prescribing ( deadly ) drugs. If given written rx, take it with you and get other opinions. There are alternate choices as highlighted here. Your child is worth the extra diligence and time.
I am so grateful to you for your books on these harms, and the withdrawal book. I was able to use what I learned from you to help two loved ones: my daughter, as a young adult, decided to take antidepressants and ADHD meds and it changed her personality overnight..... but was able to finally get off both drugs after two and a half years. It's been eight years now that she has been drug free, and she is thriving and able to experience joy and the fullness (ups and downs) of life FULLY, and also be able to "cope" with whatever comes her way. The second loved one was overmedicated in a hospital, became addicted, and needed to be tapered off carefully under a doctor's supervision.
Your books helped me to have the knowledge I needed to "do battle" for these two wonderful people. I would not have known what to do, otherwise. I am grateful beyond words.
She would have been much better off with a mega dose of niacin or niacinamide (vitamin B3). Read up on it. doctoryourself.com. Some conditions only suggest niacin and others work better with niacinamide and still others, either one.
You are welcome. It's an amazing gift to the world, as Andrew Saul died in February 2024. I used it for research during my MS degrees and it helped me immensely. Even now, I use the site almost weekly, especially when I hear something about health or nutrition and make sure you look up all the old vitamin C guys. So ask me anything if you want.
Sep 13·edited Sep 15Liked by Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin
In the aftermath of truly anomalous circumstances (I was the victim of a heinous crime by a stranger in my own home - Sarah Preece, Nelson New Zealand) I eventually relented to the persuasions of a pyschologist to trial an SSRI. I had no need or want of such a drug, but after 5 months of her persistance I eventually agreed to 'trial' Sertraline; to show her my compliance and protect my relationship with her.
Life-threatening Serotonin Syndrome and Akathisia followed. I was transformed from a functioning human to a writhing, contorted living nightmare (myoclonic jerks etc). To mitigate the harms of these neuro-toxic insults I was prescribed Benzodiazepines with the promise it was just for a short time.
For a full 18 months thereafter I pursued the medical oversight of the withdrawal I was meant to adhere to - to no avail. I started to look for information on how to safely manage a taper myself. I was incredulous at the dearth of information available on the www. All my internet searches would reveal were adverts from American Rehab centres that offered 28-day programmes for addiction. I wasn't addicted. I hated taking the drugs. I didn't understand (spellbinding effect) their role in the demise of my wellbeing, which the treatment providers were attributing to personality faults.
I came to understand that I had to get away from these people (the health system) that had only ever made me feel worse and traded on my trauma by pathologising my personality instead of seeing the harm caused by the drugs they had foisted on me. Eventually, eventually, thank goodness I came across the books of Peter Breggin, and there began my odyssey into withdrawal and the horrifying legacy of iatrogenic harm. It is nearly 5 years since I completed my taper. I am disabled by (insurance acknowledged) Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction. I am damaged in ways that impact me and my family every day. I am awake to all that the Breggins and other heroic whistleblowers have exposed. And eternally grateful for their courage and integrity in the face of the assaults they have faced in airing the truth. Thank you so much for all you do.
I was like you. Prescribed heroin-like drug for years and this “M.D.” dropped me abruptly without referral or tapering despite my request. I learned by making the rounds to tens of other M.D.’s that although telling what happened each initial visit they wrote “drug seeking” on my chart and offered alternative ( deadly) drugs not classified as narcotics. I looked at tens of drug treatment programs afterwards and
thank God something kept me from
these programs as well. They are all programs to enslave people for life. The unspoken caveat is that you will not survive without us. But you will not live a free life either. Your mind will be programmed to think like the rest of the robots. Which is not to think at all.
What a magnificent essay - thank you both so much, as ever.
The resources available from your books, videos, research papers and testimonies, comprise a treasure trove for all of those who are suffering, and in need of safe recovery.
Dr. Breggin, thank you for your sound advice. It is always heartbreaking to see youngsters put on psychiatric medication. Doctors, who I guess have no other tools in their toolkit write out prescriptions for these children. Mental health services are non existent. Many families have no healthcare coverage, or very limited coverage. The healthcare system in the USA is broken. I live in the UK now, it is not much better here.
I have a question about the concept of projection. Isn’t that what is happening on a daily basis where the Leftists accuse their opponents of doing precisely what they themselves are doing? Isn’t that part of the psychological confusion and chaos they are creating? Messing with our minds!
I ordered Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal wanting to get my son OFF the medications he’s been on for 10 years. It’s an excellent book. I presented it to his psychiatrist and left it with him but I know he didn’t read it. He is supporting decreasing the medication although not as slowly as the book describes so my son is having withdrawal symptoms for sure that is taking a few months to level out before attempting another decrease. He started at 20 olanzapine and is now down to 12.5. Thank you Dr. Breggin!!!
Thank you Dr Peter Bregging and Ginger ❤️🌹🕊️for all your hard work during all these years, sadly most of people have still not idea of what is going on unless they become involve directly or by their family, relatives or friends and by then is too late, the situation becomes very complicated. I am following Dr Niall McLaren the only one I am aware exist in Australia, it will be great that you get together in a podcast , and although is still active in different ways is retired :(..
Same Dr Bob Johnson from UK, he is retired aswell.. Where are other psychiatrist like the three of you that people can get support with?.. Thank you G_d bless you!!
Thank you Dr. Peter Breggin for your deep truth about the deep oppression and actual subjugation and deaths of so many who are deluded or coerced to use these so called "anti-psychotic" drugs. Aside from the chemistry and its deadly debilitating effects on the human biology and spirit, we cannot trust that claim “anti-psychotic” when it is produced and marketed by actual psychotic/sociopaths with corrupted corporations. Some would say it is evil on earth, and I agree. On the positive side, there is YOU!.....and a growing multitude of folks aware of these deadly drug traps and tricks, and folks like me who am honored and will not forget my brief meeting with you in LA in 1986 to speak at my church rally to help eliminate the barbaric psychiatric “treatments”. Your individual indomitable efforts resulted in great good for the human species, and you have earned the well-deserved moniker “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for having almost eliminated those treatments. The drugs remain as a covert gateway to destruction of the natural person and ability. Yet, as many hear your messages and we help spread the truth with you, it will help many to regain health, sanity, happiness, and spiritual awareness without those covertly subjugating effects of the drugs. I cannot say enough words of thanks and praise for you and your courageous and stalwart outspoken truth and help to mankind. May your life continue to be richly blessed.
It's also not surprising as most doctors, no matter what kind, aren't taught nutrition in medical school (unless they pay extra for it and/or additionally go to nutrition school) which would definitely be another tool in their toolbox. Even a membership in WestonAPrice.org for $40.00/year would help doctors immensely. Also read The Contagion Myth
Dr. Tom Cowan
The Contagion Myth - Why Viruses (including "Coronavirus") Are Not the Cause of Disease
Dr Breggin is a pioneer in this field. No psychiatric drugs for children. On a personal note: I was a victim advocate for children at Palm Beach Co, Fl Guardian ad Litem program. I saw kids who were truant taking 6 psychotropic drugs. I was appalled. After talking to one of these truant children, we found out the step dad was sexually molesting her and was running away to find her dad in WI. Tragic situation. Drugs should not be a substitute for exploring mental problems. I have often noticed that school shooters were being treated with harsh drugs administered for trans children. This is a concern that needs more attention.
People must be warned not to seek
practitioners prescribing ( deadly ) drugs. If given written rx, take it with you and get other opinions. There are alternate choices as highlighted here. Your child is worth the extra diligence and time.
Keep putting it out there Dr. Breggin and Ginger. You have a masterful agenda. 💖
Dr. Breggin, truly a good human :)
I am so grateful to you for your books on these harms, and the withdrawal book. I was able to use what I learned from you to help two loved ones: my daughter, as a young adult, decided to take antidepressants and ADHD meds and it changed her personality overnight..... but was able to finally get off both drugs after two and a half years. It's been eight years now that she has been drug free, and she is thriving and able to experience joy and the fullness (ups and downs) of life FULLY, and also be able to "cope" with whatever comes her way. The second loved one was overmedicated in a hospital, became addicted, and needed to be tapered off carefully under a doctor's supervision.
Your books helped me to have the knowledge I needed to "do battle" for these two wonderful people. I would not have known what to do, otherwise. I am grateful beyond words.
You are a loving parent to have recognized and intelligently sought
solution to this atrocious misuse of
power, profit and control.
She would have been much better off with a mega dose of niacin or niacinamide (vitamin B3). Read up on it. doctoryourself.com. Some conditions only suggest niacin and others work better with niacinamide and still others, either one.
Thanks, Skupe. I book-marked that site.
You are welcome. It's an amazing gift to the world, as Andrew Saul died in February 2024. I used it for research during my MS degrees and it helped me immensely. Even now, I use the site almost weekly, especially when I hear something about health or nutrition and make sure you look up all the old vitamin C guys. So ask me anything if you want.
In the aftermath of truly anomalous circumstances (I was the victim of a heinous crime by a stranger in my own home - Sarah Preece, Nelson New Zealand) I eventually relented to the persuasions of a pyschologist to trial an SSRI. I had no need or want of such a drug, but after 5 months of her persistance I eventually agreed to 'trial' Sertraline; to show her my compliance and protect my relationship with her.
Life-threatening Serotonin Syndrome and Akathisia followed. I was transformed from a functioning human to a writhing, contorted living nightmare (myoclonic jerks etc). To mitigate the harms of these neuro-toxic insults I was prescribed Benzodiazepines with the promise it was just for a short time.
For a full 18 months thereafter I pursued the medical oversight of the withdrawal I was meant to adhere to - to no avail. I started to look for information on how to safely manage a taper myself. I was incredulous at the dearth of information available on the www. All my internet searches would reveal were adverts from American Rehab centres that offered 28-day programmes for addiction. I wasn't addicted. I hated taking the drugs. I didn't understand (spellbinding effect) their role in the demise of my wellbeing, which the treatment providers were attributing to personality faults.
I came to understand that I had to get away from these people (the health system) that had only ever made me feel worse and traded on my trauma by pathologising my personality instead of seeing the harm caused by the drugs they had foisted on me. Eventually, eventually, thank goodness I came across the books of Peter Breggin, and there began my odyssey into withdrawal and the horrifying legacy of iatrogenic harm. It is nearly 5 years since I completed my taper. I am disabled by (insurance acknowledged) Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction. I am damaged in ways that impact me and my family every day. I am awake to all that the Breggins and other heroic whistleblowers have exposed. And eternally grateful for their courage and integrity in the face of the assaults they have faced in airing the truth. Thank you so much for all you do.
I was like you. Prescribed heroin-like drug for years and this “M.D.” dropped me abruptly without referral or tapering despite my request. I learned by making the rounds to tens of other M.D.’s that although telling what happened each initial visit they wrote “drug seeking” on my chart and offered alternative ( deadly) drugs not classified as narcotics. I looked at tens of drug treatment programs afterwards and
thank God something kept me from
these programs as well. They are all programs to enslave people for life. The unspoken caveat is that you will not survive without us. But you will not live a free life either. Your mind will be programmed to think like the rest of the robots. Which is not to think at all.
What a magnificent essay - thank you both so much, as ever.
The resources available from your books, videos, research papers and testimonies, comprise a treasure trove for all of those who are suffering, and in need of safe recovery.
Your work is brave and truly heroic.
Fantastic resources. Thank you so much for compiling them all in one place.
Dr. Breggin, thank you for your sound advice. It is always heartbreaking to see youngsters put on psychiatric medication. Doctors, who I guess have no other tools in their toolkit write out prescriptions for these children. Mental health services are non existent. Many families have no healthcare coverage, or very limited coverage. The healthcare system in the USA is broken. I live in the UK now, it is not much better here.
Spread the truth.
Dr. Breggin,
I have a question about the concept of projection. Isn’t that what is happening on a daily basis where the Leftists accuse their opponents of doing precisely what they themselves are doing? Isn’t that part of the psychological confusion and chaos they are creating? Messing with our minds!
One of the oldest manipulations is to accuse someone of doing what you are in fact doing--it is gaslighting ~ ginger Breggin
I ordered Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal wanting to get my son OFF the medications he’s been on for 10 years. It’s an excellent book. I presented it to his psychiatrist and left it with him but I know he didn’t read it. He is supporting decreasing the medication although not as slowly as the book describes so my son is having withdrawal symptoms for sure that is taking a few months to level out before attempting another decrease. He started at 20 olanzapine and is now down to 12.5. Thank you Dr. Breggin!!!
Thank you Dr Peter Bregging and Ginger ❤️🌹🕊️for all your hard work during all these years, sadly most of people have still not idea of what is going on unless they become involve directly or by their family, relatives or friends and by then is too late, the situation becomes very complicated. I am following Dr Niall McLaren the only one I am aware exist in Australia, it will be great that you get together in a podcast , and although is still active in different ways is retired :(..
Same Dr Bob Johnson from UK, he is retired aswell.. Where are other psychiatrist like the three of you that people can get support with?.. Thank you G_d bless you!!
Thank you Dr. Peter Breggin for your deep truth about the deep oppression and actual subjugation and deaths of so many who are deluded or coerced to use these so called "anti-psychotic" drugs. Aside from the chemistry and its deadly debilitating effects on the human biology and spirit, we cannot trust that claim “anti-psychotic” when it is produced and marketed by actual psychotic/sociopaths with corrupted corporations. Some would say it is evil on earth, and I agree. On the positive side, there is YOU!.....and a growing multitude of folks aware of these deadly drug traps and tricks, and folks like me who am honored and will not forget my brief meeting with you in LA in 1986 to speak at my church rally to help eliminate the barbaric psychiatric “treatments”. Your individual indomitable efforts resulted in great good for the human species, and you have earned the well-deserved moniker “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for having almost eliminated those treatments. The drugs remain as a covert gateway to destruction of the natural person and ability. Yet, as many hear your messages and we help spread the truth with you, it will help many to regain health, sanity, happiness, and spiritual awareness without those covertly subjugating effects of the drugs. I cannot say enough words of thanks and praise for you and your courageous and stalwart outspoken truth and help to mankind. May your life continue to be richly blessed.
Reading this and Midwestern Doctor, as well as independent research, is why I am using good food, exercise, fresh air.
My Service Dog is on paper as my legal “right to try” which they can’t overrule. 😁
I would also call attention to Irving Kirsch's landmark study of antidepressants in his book, The Emperor's New Drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Drugs). Thank you for your ongoing work.
Yes another very important book ~ Ginger
It's also not surprising as most doctors, no matter what kind, aren't taught nutrition in medical school (unless they pay extra for it and/or additionally go to nutrition school) which would definitely be another tool in their toolbox. Even a membership in WestonAPrice.org for $40.00/year would help doctors immensely. Also read The Contagion Myth
Dr. Tom Cowan
The Contagion Myth - Why Viruses (including "Coronavirus") Are Not the Cause of Disease
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Yes!! WestonAPrice.org is the best and should be mandatory💕. We’ve been so misinformed for so long.
Yes, for doctors and all people! A dentist friend told me if he followed Price suggestions, he'd never have any money.