Should neuroleptic drugs be banned?
she describes her experience of neuroleptic drugs. Once or twice Hebriana asked me: “Shouldn’t we accept the treatment program that the authorities are offering?” Her doubt was the real threat! The great danger was that she would choose to surrender herself to the psychiatric system. If so, she would not have become the rich, beautiful, free person that she now is (See collage of photos of Hebriana and her daughter, August 1987). She would have become a neuroleptic slave, an impoverished, sorry wreck of a person. Her life wasted, she would have had two choices: Killing her body also, as so many people caught in the neuroleptic trap do. Or accepting her fate, accepting the identity imposed on her by psychiatry. I believe Hebriana is one of those who would have chosen suicide. (Read Interview with Hebriana 1998, in which she looks back on her experiences of psychiatry.) If, after all, she had tried to accept her neuroleptic fate and if I would have approached her today with the question
