"Medicating Normal" documentary film about going off psychiatric drugs

[Cocopuffz17]

9 minutes ago, ChessieCat said:

This link takes you to the page listing upcoming showings of the documentary:

 

https://medicatingnormal.com/watch/

 

This one might be a good one for you to sign up for.  I watched the Richmond Festival showing of it and it was like renting a film and I was to choose when I watched in during the time the Festival was running.  Once you start watching the docu you have complete it within 48 hours (?)

 

November 6, 2020 – November 12, 2020

Virtual REEL Recovery Film Festival

1pm - 10pm Pacific. Tickets coming soon.

 

TYVM! 

[ChessieCat]

You're welcome.  I've just sent them an enquiry asking about it.

[ChessieCat]

12 hours ago, ChessieCat said:

I've just sent them an enquiry asking about it.

 

They have responding saying that they do not yet know if this will be available for "at leisure" viewing during the festival.

[Cocopuffz17]

On 10/13/2020 at 3:46 AM, ChessieCat said:

 

They have responding saying that they do not yet know if this will be available for "at leisure" viewing during the festival.

Okay, Thank you for getting the info! 

[SouthernFreeze]

Just watched this this morning, amazing! Almost had me in tears.

 

It actually made me feel less isolated in this whole thing.

 

All the stories were fascinating but the one that resonated with me the most was the marine and the issues withdrawal cause with your partner.

 

I'm actually to scared to lower my taper at the moment as I have a new baby and a little girl and I'm scared it will break up the family.

[BooBoo19]

Hello, can I ask where did you manage to watch this as I have been looking for it online following watching an interview with the marine but have not found it.  Another good podcast on you tube is 'lets talk withdrawal' maybe something else to feel even more less isolated.

[SouthernFreeze]

7 hours ago, BooBoo19 said:

Hello, can I ask where did you manage to watch this as I have been looking for it online following watching an interview with the marine but have not found it.  Another good podcast on you tube is 'lets talk withdrawal' maybe something else to feel even more less isolated.

You have to buy a ticket then watch it online as a live webinar, definitely worth it. 

Yeah I have listened to all the episodes of 'lets talk withdrawal' and was disappointed that it ended (well it did on podbean I'm not sure it actually did) but then I found mad in america and that podcast may even be better.

 

 

 

 

[anacleta]

Join David Healy, MD and Angela Peacock, MSW from the Medicating Normal team as they discuss medical groupthink and why the mental health industry does not believe the patients who have been harmed by it. They will also have a frank conversation about the sexual side effects from psychiatric drugs.
David Healy is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton Canada. He has been raising concerns about withdrawal from antidepressants and suicide and other behavioural problems especially in children since the mid-1990s and was an expert witness in a successful legal case about withdrawal and dependence in 2004 and in regulatory hearings about suicide in younger people at the same time. He figures we have made little or no progress sorting these issues out and now have several major public health crises on our hands.
David Healy, MD is the author of twenty books to include Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare’s Castaways, Children of the Cure: Missing Data, Lost Lives and Antidepressants, and Pharmageddon among others. He is also the founder of RxISK.org, a website dedicated to educating and empowering patients to have better conversations about their meds with their doctors and to collect data on the unintended consequences of prescription medications so that we can draw attention to them.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/210304034256922/

[marie123]

This is a must watch video for all of us. It's just incredible watching a doctor speak about things we talk about here. I've never met him but I feel now he is a friend. Thanks Dr. Healy.

 

Marie

[Altostrata]

Hello!

 

I'm one of 12 amazing speakers taking part in the Mental Wealth Mastery ONLINE Summit (22 - 24 Nov, 6 - 8 pm UK) hosted by Drs Rani Bora and Suraj Gogoi who are both holistic psychiatrists in the UK.

 

Info and registration: bitly.com/mwmsummit21 Cost is only £5.00 (about $6.71 US)

 

This event is unique in that it will look at all these three key areas -

1.    The problem issue of psychiatric meds overprescription (antidepressants in particular), the potential for serious adverse and withdrawal effects and the importance of informed consent.

2.    The principles of Innate Health and Resilience and that a true solution for mental distress and suffering can be found in that understanding.

3.    Help professionals identify some of the root causes of their client's symptoms by learning about the principles of functional medicine and help make lasting changes to their lifestyle.

 

As a build-up to the summit, the award-winning film "Medicating Normal" will be screened exclusively for all summit participants on 19 Nov at 5 pm UK. This will be followed by a live expert panel discussion.

 

Whether you are a coach, therapist, counsellor, healthcare professional or someone who is keen to learn more, there'll be something in this summit for you.

 

Click the link below to find out more and be part of this online summit.

bitly.com/mwmsummit21

 

-- Altostrata

 

PS I am not an organizer of this event and cannot answer questions about it.

[Ryder]

Good work Alto, 

 

I have a question: i) In your opinion, is there any reason for a doctor to prescribe a patient an Anti-Depressant ?

                         

 

 

[Overwhelmedlady]

Hi @AltostrataJust to say congratulations on your indefatigable task of helping others go through this awful experience and shedding light on this silenced suffering ,neglect and harm caused both by overprescribing  and ignorance as to how to deprescribe . I hope the contents will be available for those of us unable to attend.

[manymoretodays]

I'm all in.  Registered.  Looks good.

On 11/16/2021 at 12:15 PM, Overwhelmedlady said:

I hope the contents will be available for those of us unable to attend.

 

Is it a time conflict OWL? 

I've seen the Medicating Normal film, and there is a free viewing of that included too, in the registration fee.

I highly recommend it.

I think it would be worth it to register, even to just view the free film, viewing, offered apart from the summit, different time, with discussion afterwards.

I'll have to miss that.

 

And/or you could contact the organizers to find out if they plan on doing a recorded version, available to watch on your own time.

I'll report back here, if I do learn the summit portion is going to be recorded. I won't know, until I go.

 

Wish you could go. 

 

And go Alto!  I should be able to attend most sessions. 

 

Excited,  L, P, H, and G,

mmt

 

[Overwhelmedlady]

Hi @manymoretodays No. Not a time conflict. Currency conflict. I am specially interested in listening to Joanna Moncrieff.Hope she posts something about it later in her blog.Anyway the information will be public eventually.You can read my posts to get a better picture of my current situation.I am not working and have no disability pension or anything of the sort. No credit card.Thanks for asking anyway.

[Faure]

This looks excellent, I just received an email about it and was going to post it here! Look forward to hearing lots of people, including Alto, speak☺️

[Faure]

@Overwhelmedladyhow are you feeling at the moment?

[Addax]

“Medicating Normal is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.”

 

Link to website: https://medicatingnormal.com

Description from website:

 

“Medicating Normal follows the journeys of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager whose doctors prescribed psychiatric drugs for stress, mild depression, sleeplessness, focus and trauma. Our subjects struggle with serious physical and mental side effects as well as neurological damage which resulted from taking the drugs as prescribed and also from attempting to withdraw. Says one psychiatrist, ‘There’s not a chemical on the planet, to my knowledge, that can require years to taper – not Oxycontin, not crack cocaine, not heroin, and not alcohol. But psychiatric medications, any tapered patient will tell you, can take sometimes years if possible, at all.’

 

During the course of the film, prominent psychiatrists and scientific experts explain how it came to pass that – shockingly – one in five Americans take these drugs daily, and often for many years. They reinforce the fact that debilitating side-effects including addiction are common, yet not commonly acknowledged. It is the untold story of what happens when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

Edited February 21, 2023 by Addax
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[Addax]

There is also a related Facebook Live event on February 22, 2023 - A conversation with Psychologist, Anders Sorensen:Psychiatric drug withdrawal. 

 

https://facebook.com/events/s/a-conversation-w-psychologist-/5722654741125984/

I’m not sure which time zone 12 PM refers to…

[j1290]

Thanks for posting this, Addax!  

 

I haven't seen this yet, and I'm looking forward to it.  Hats off to them for making it.  

[Catina7]

My husband and I watched Medicating Normal today.  I'd been wanting to watch it and was glad he watched it with me.  It makes me so angry that so many lives have been adversely affected, ruined, or lost due to Big Pharma's greed, lack of transparency, and outright lies.  Also, the arrogance and ignorance of some of the prescribing doctors and the words that actually came out of their mouths continues to dumbfound me.  Taking normal human emotions and turning them into a mental "illness" that can only be fixed by drugs is completely wrong.  Psychiatry has definitely lost its way.  I'm thankful for the professionals who do "get it" and continue to speak out for what is right and to make the truth known.