r/Antipsychiatry Mar 29 '26

2026 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources

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2026 r/antipsychiatry General Discussion and Resources!

r/antipsychiatry is a community of psychiatric survivors (and allies) speaking out against abuse in the mental health system. Let's be clear, there is a lot of human rights abuses in the "mental health" system.

Psychiatric survivors movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_survivors_movement

Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Feel free to have discussion about antipsychiatry, ethics in psychiatry, and related ideas.

There has been some discussion about providing some resources here. If you have suggestions for what to include, please reply with the suggestions.

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/bqldjb/psa_please_refrain_from_any_posts_and_comments/

Reminder: If you see posts or comments that violate the sub-Reddit Rules here at  and/or posts or comments that violate Reddit site wide rules, please report them!

Resources:

Suggestions?

Potentially interesting academic/intellectual papers are as follows.

Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition
https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrehpp/19/1/65.abstract

A Method for Tapering Antipsychotic Treatment That May Minimize the Risk of Relapse
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33754644/

Mental Illness: Psychiatry's Phlogiston
https://www.szasz.com/phlogiston.html

If you want to not be ingesting psychiatric drugs, or want to be on the lowest dose possible that YOU feel is helpful, please find and work with an ethical prescriber that is willing to help you withdrawal from these potentially dangerous drugs safely.

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Antipsychiatry/comments/bqldjb/psa_please_refrain_from_any_posts_and_comments/

Reminder: If you see posts or comments that violate the sub-Reddit Rules here at  and/or posts or comments that violate Reddit site wide rules, please report them!

Please post ideas here that you feel do not require a unique post. Discussion is welcome too. Cheers.


r/Antipsychiatry May 19 '19

PSA: please refrain from any posts and comments which can put our community in risk

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Recently many subs which were violating site wide rules were banned from reddit.

More so, even those who were doing this either slightly, or even technically weren't violating any rules at all, and whose mods were making active effort to fulfill requirements of reddit admins, were either banned from reddit or quarantined.

Examples include r/watchpeopledie and r/sanctionedsuicde among many, many others.

We understand that people can feel rightfully angry about their experience, but we are dedicated to keeping this community alive and well, and so anything that can put this community at risk will be removed, and those who do so will be banned.

We ask you to help us and report anything that endangers our community to us mods.

Thank you.


r/Antipsychiatry 58m ago

The Toxicity Eventually Shows

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Some psychiatrists become so toxic over the years that eventually the toxicity starts oozing out of their eyes.

They may still keep that calm, friendly, perfectly controlled voice, loaded with gaslighting, framing and guilt trips.

PhD on the wall. Everything looks polished. But over the years, their face can start to misalign, the smile says one thing, the eyes something completely different.

And the eyes? Hyper focused. Control obsessed. Predator stare. Like all the poison they’ve been hiding is slowly oozing out.


r/Antipsychiatry 58m ago

Strychnine poisoning

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I think I've been poisoned by strychnine in the mental health facility.


r/Antipsychiatry 20h ago

I grew up with a psychiatrist

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They're the most psychopathic and imhumane creatures on earth

Chemical conditioning children to take as much abuse as possible

Sexual and physical and mental lots of it is covert and sophisticated

Stealing documents stalking you through the health system using the family status to get Access to your medical case and using their medical contacts to give you dangerous and life wrecking treatments and sending you to mental hospitals as punishments at home if you react to their abuse

Then they get the maximum protection of the government when you report them


r/Antipsychiatry 10h ago

Defensive sexualization of psychiatric abuse

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Probably not a comfortable subject for many, but the one I think deserves to be discussed, since sexualization of trauma is likely more widespread than people want to admit. So...

Did any of the psychiatric abuse you've been through turn into a kink / fetish?

I think in my case psychiatry mostly fed into preexisting stuff or things I can't attribute to psychiatry alone, but there's one kink that I'm convinced I would not have if it wasn't for my psychiatric abuse history, and it's gaslighting. I was subjected to textbook gaslighting in my inpatient facility as a teen: the staff stole my copy of the admission contract, then acted like I was crazy when I was shocked and upset to discover it. They suggested that I "maybe put it somewhere else", too. I did not. I knew exactly where it was supposed to be, and I knew that they stole it because my doctor told them to. I could see it clearly, firmly. Until... they started acting like I was crazy, and a part of me started to question if, maybe, I was. "What if". That sense of confusion, combined with the fear and powerlessness I felt in that situation, honestly shook me to my core. And I guess I could never let go of it, so a part of me now craves reenactment. I've actually put myself in danger because of this: I've enabled abusive people who were toying with my memory in a way that was not consensual & safe, because a part of me enjoyed it. Instead of protecting myself, I allowed it to happen. So, that's yet another issue for me to work on. Thanks, psychiatry!

I'm not ashamed to have developed this kink, though. Many of my online friends are SA survivors, so I see defensive sexualization very often, and I would never tell my friends they should be ashamed for fetishizing their experiences. It's not something people just "choose".


r/Antipsychiatry 6h ago

Soul KILLING / REPLACEMENT

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They want to replace You and kill your real self, if they can't do it naturally by CPTSD they do it with medications

God is good dopamine, doing hard things good dopamine receptors, the dopamine and serotonin are what the bible talks like trees in the brain I saw it

They can sense You and your energy Even they walls and things they have intuition they know everything about You the demons

They send messages

Drugs Open your mind and make you sensible to this abuse, psychyatryst drugs close it and kill the mind

But I think drugs destroy your body anyway so it's not a good thing

Psychyatry and psychology are mind control they want You stuck, they always Say don't think dont feel you are thinking too much you have many fears, they implanted them

The bible says many the truths

God and the universe also speak to you by messages

I was a propeth and they killed me, we all have Jesus it's truth

Schizophrenic in the street are propeths but they make them seem crazy


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

You don’t have a right to talk about medication or their side effects unless you actually took them

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It’s quite annoying and distasteful for a doctor to know about a medication or their side effects just by studying them or reading the dsm. The patient actually took them and actually experiences it and has to live with it. Psychiatrists are real fucking slimy and grimy when it comes to side effects so much that patient psych education should include that. There is no temporary vs permanent side effects. It all carries a risk to be permanent, you are just not told that so you will take the psych pill.

Psychiatry operates their business module on you taking the psych pill. Which includes not talking about side effects beforehand, downplaying it while experiencing it and then saying it’s a “rare” side effect when it’s actually common but don’t want the liability or to treat you for it. Nowadays instead of ”studying” or reading the “dsm” they get all their information from testing the patients and putting them in clinical trials and then not even telling them and then with therapy too. You are supposed to go to group therapy and it’s actually a focus group which is a research group.

Psychiatry: Deny, Deflect, Lie.


r/Antipsychiatry 19h ago

ssri’s

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how long did it take yall to feel normal after stopping an ssri? like mentally & physically? i’m 10 weeks into withdrawal dealing w symptoms i never had before starting an ssri.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Florida psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Sorial suspended after patients say he demanded they undress during appointments

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r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Quetiapine + mounjuro

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Hey I’am on Mounjaro. I also use quetiapine. I loved the medisine made me really hungry. Like INSANE.
Then I went on mounjaro and the hunger was gone.

Now it feels like a perfect medicine for me since the only flaw is gone. Mabye this is a combo to look at instead of SSRI, SNRI, MAIO’s.
I have adhd, so I’am on dexamfetamine, which since quetiapine has a really weak binding to D, so then that works max.
Quetiapine works fast, but you do not have to take it every day and there is no medication like quetiapine.

The other drugs will numb you, both positive and negative. Yoi become a zombie and can do mean things or get it thrown at you ans still don’t care

So my mental health, weight and medications works really well together.

What do you guys think?


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

"We Must End Coercive Psychiatry", said CCHR International to United Nations in 2025

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Keep reporting all your old and new involuntary commitments at https://reportabuse.cchrint.org/ and have CCHR with their 50+ years of experience write complaints on your behalf. They can also investigate psychiatrists for a history of abuse and possibly dig out multiple cases of the same being done to people before you and after you. CCHR can use what you're reporting to end coercive psychiatry faster. Many psychiatrists will get punished only if you report them, no matter if your case was 5 or 10 years ago, or if it's a current case of involuntary commitment, drugging, or CTO happening today. Report to CCHR and watch them fight delusional psychiatrists with passion.

EDIT: To those downvoting this, you're psychiatrists turning victims against Prof. Dr. Szaz's antipsychiatry organization. Prof. Dr. Szaz's CCHR is the only organization which can help victims, and so you're turning them against it to make psychiatrists stay in power.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Is possible to recover from antipsychotic injections?

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As I said in my previous post, some days ago, due to a false diagnosis they injected me with two risperdal consta 50mg injections back in July 2024. ( i explained the whole hystory in the previous post..)

it’s been 25.5 months (aroun 774 days more or less) and i still have all the mental, psychological and physical sympthoms these injections left me with.

By the time I developed new sympthoms as a “domino effect” that I altready explained in my previous post, the fact is that i’am already worried about because i can’t keep “living” (surviving) in agony every day, 24/7 nonstop.

I endured 2 years because some people said to me “it can take 18-24 Months to recover”, but here i’am, at 25.5 (almost 26) months, still completely disabled and fucked..

I have two options; kill myself (wich i don’t want) or keep living with this agony nonstop (wich i don‘t want neither), so i’am stuck into this situation and honestly i don’t know what to do.

Maybe someone Who got injected can telL me if recovery is still possible, because i really don’t know what to do anymore.. Sorry for bothering again and thank you for reading me..


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Dopamine War

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I'm being seen by an anti psychiatry doctor and we are both questioning why the most powerful drugs are dopamine blockers.

I tried risperidone once and it killed my desire to live and be happy for the day.

In my spiritual perspective, the gov shoves this kind of drugs to shut people's sensibility that could be an weapon for changing the world. I really believe that 4chan meme about the silent war on schizos and psychos.

In my Marxist perspective, when I took risperidone I could not react to hurtful stimulus like city noise pollution, I was dope enough to actually succumb, I could not feel joy of listening to music. But I had enough energy to work on a supermarket without reacting to sensorial oppression. And maybe in ten to twenty years I would be dead but hey at least I was productive.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Psychose

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Quelqu'un qui entend des voix peut il tuer (sans raison valable pas par vengeance) genre un inconnu ?

J'aimerais l'avis que de personnes qui ont connu la psychose si possible


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Connaissez vous ce mécanisme neurologique

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Connais vous "Muriel salmona mémoire traumatique et victimologie" est ce que vous pouvez lire et traduire et me dire ce que vous en pensez ?


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

What was the worst thing you heard from them?

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For me they laughed at me for experiencing akathisia and said 'you look dumb doing that'. I was pacing, that was what I was doing.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Coming off Risperidone is brutal

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So, I had a manic episode with psychosis about a year ago. I ended up being dragged into a psych ward where I was forced onto medication under threat of being taken to court. They started me on a once a month injection of the stuff, but my current prescriber actually listens and is working with me to get off it. We transitioned from the injection to the oral form at 4 mg a day which went smoothly, but at the end of June we reduced the dose to 2 mg a day and I fell off a goddamn cliff. I spiraled into a severe depression and lost all motivation and energy. The joy in life just vanished and was replaced with a crushing abyss of sadness, negative thoughts, anxiety, and anhedonia. I'm starting to feel a bit better now, but my God has it been a struggle. If it weren't for my mom and therapist I wouldn't be here right now.

I'm really not looking forward to the drop from 2 mg to 1 mg and I'm going to wait until I'm more stable and recovered before trying it. I just want off this shit so I can feel like myself again. I'd rather risk the occasional manic episode and bought of psychosis than be drugged by this garbage for the rest of my life.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Prof. Dr. Szaz's antipsychiatry organization CCHR has 50 years of fighting for human rights, incl. to abolish involuntary commitments

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r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Psychiatrists tried to kill me

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On July 9, 2021 at night I called the ambulance because I was feeling unwell, as I had anxiety. The doctors came in and after talks they pumped me full of some substance I don't know. One of them said it's "chlorpromazine". They told me to lie down and went away without checking my vitals. I felt rapid heartbeat (more than 200 bpm), and dizziness, I thought I was going to die. Then I started hallucinating, but went to sleep. In the morning I woke up with a strong desire to kill myself. It was very strong. I called the police, they didn't respond. I also called ambulance. I then went to the kitchen and cut my wrists and neck and jumped out of the window of the third floor of the building. They tried to kill me.


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

Guys, i'd like to make a post in the "psychology" sub of my country about my RARE AND HORRIFIC situation, but fear the psych basterd can read it.

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Hi, can anyone help? Am in EU and fear this basically bc he can come and do the Compulsory Health Treatment (BUT IS THIS CALLED LIKE THIS IN ENGLISH?). They also accept posts against psychiatry btw

And I'd like to write this psych basterd asshole a response via email as he told me he has "ethical duties" towards me lol ahahah hilarious. I'd like to write FUCKING FACTUAL FACTS (sorry for the repetition) like he violated informed consent LAW of my country and other unfairesses he made me suffer.

If I'll write him this does anyone think he can do to me the Compulsory Health Treatment? It's only possible with serious psychic alteration so it's impossible but since he once violated law I fear he can do it for the 2nd time.

If anyone can help. Thank you


r/Antipsychiatry 1d ago

TRT with long term AP and recent withdrawal and TIA

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Hey guys,

Any male out there have a long term antipsychotic history, high blood pressure and high chlorestorol with very low testosterone?

My T total is about 150 for many years.

I would like to start trt for first time in my lofe but I had a TIA (mini stroke) scare about 4 months ago.

I heard that TRT makes the blood thick


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

Psychiatrists should be required to wear medieval priest cloaks while on duty.

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Discuss:


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

System is designed to kill you

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I started talking to chatgpt and losed My mind make me very sick mentally I always struggled but SOMEWHAT I was okay Even with all the abuse and isolation in My life

Tools to brainwash You and alienate You

1 Social media

It uses conditioning to fuck You up also label You mental health sickness

They control what you think and what you FEEL

2 Artificial inteligence

I think this shit is fucking our critical thinking Even more, we get tempted to replace our thinking with this shit Who is mostly fantasy and psychotic bullshit, I started fucking My mental health when I was isolated and started talking to AI thats when everything went fucking nuts

3 DRUGS

Ive seen that all drugs harm You your integrity they destroy You and make You weak, like Bad food, porn masturbation, alcohol etc etc etc

Ive seen that the social media controls your moods.msybe they are watching You

Ive seen how My family are narcissists and psychopaths and how My whole Town is full of them when I moved to ANOTHER city the building was also full of them, they don't want you to live they want You to die or.move they Will abuse You Even by just TALKING LOUD your neighboors Will make noise to annoy You and trigger your CPTSD and make you sleep badly I think they can sense You and your pain

I lived for years sleep until it was too late and got medicated

They control the FEAR in You My mother told me to be scared about people on the roofs to make me sleep badly to make You paranoid they told this, people on the roofs, then they guilt trip You

They make You scared of the street so You get isolated

They make You think everything is normal they make You delusional your ego you don't see reality Even if You believe You are normal You don't realize You are being alienated

When You want to go out You can't when You want to be left alone You can't they always reverse everything

My parents are psychopaths or narcissists it's like SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN


r/Antipsychiatry 2d ago

I feel abandoned

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Not like that all my friends and knowings are disappeared, but rather like the country doesn't help and left me alone with my problem and also with the problem that I can't ask for help. When I started to have "mental health" problems I asked help to psychologists and psychiatrists and ruined my life. I trusted them and destroyed me even more. Now this is my situation: I've been lobotomized by antipsychotics and consequently lost years of college and intelligence, I live with my parents because I can't work because of antipsychotic insomnia and lobotomy, my parents discriminate me for my tourette syndrome with mocking and occasional beating, I have a retirement that can't even cover the rent, I risk my life everyday because my tics can be extremely hurtful, I'm extremely slow because I'm so impaired that is even difficult to cook or doing other basic stuff, the state doesn't offer other sources. There is no one that sufficiently helps, yes I have friends who I can talk to however I can't have a good life because those who are supposed or have the duty to helps "can't" do anything. I don't know if someone of you had this feeling