Is MindFreedom against psychiatric drugs?
MindFreedom International is pro-choice about members’ personal and often difficult health-care decisions. There are many members who choose to take prescribed psychiatric drugs, and they feel welcome. MindFreedom unites people from a wide range of perspectives. It is also true that one of the main human rights violations in the mental health system today, is the way the psychiatric drug approach dominates, squeezing out alternatives and spreading dis-information. Because MindFreedom is independent, MFI is now one of the few mental health advocacy groups to consistently and openly speak out about the unethical way psychiatric drugs are being promoted, even pushed. This does not make us “anti-drug.” Often, it’s MFI members who are willingly on prescribed psychiatric drugs who are the most passionate and active about challenging psychiatric drug industry abuse, because they have the most at stake. Their lives are on the line. In the same way, MindFreedom International never uses the term
