Whats the problem with neuroleptic drugs?
Utilizing the medical model, psychiatric survivors have typically been told that they have a lifelong “brain disease” that must be treated with powerful, mind-altering (and brain damaging) neuroleptic drugs (NLPs). Though we cannot resolve the debate about medication and its efficacy or danger, we must acknowledge that this now traditional approach should, at least, be questioned, and that there is a profound empirical basis for such questioning. Warning! Though the empirical evidence (presented or linked to on this and other Yoism pages) shows that most people would do better if never given neuroleptic drugs, and that (given their dangerous side effects) most people should not be kept on them for very long, withdrawal from neuroleptics can be destabilizing and dangerous. The human body adjusts or becomes accustomed to drugs that are taken regularly. Abrupt withdrawal from such drugs and other substances can cause problematic reactions, e.g., DT’s when withdrawing from alcohol and conv
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