I'm writing about my personal experience of abuse in the mental health system.

For the hospital I was admitted inpatient psych and partial . . .

It seemed it was the standard of care to sedate all newly admitted psych patients diagnosed with PTSD patients with sleep meds, antipsychotics, antianxiety and antidepressant meds. That's a highly numbing mix of drugs.

We (psych patients) compaired diagnoses and meds with each other.

My case is about how the psychiatrists treating me and other patients were doing more harm than good. I was a zombie on those meds. The other PTSD patients I saw taking that medication coctail also were zombies.

PTSD is not a brain disease. PTSD is a normal stress reaction to abnormal, traumatic event(s). There is no magic pill for PTSD. Avoidance is a main symptom of PTSD. The drugs contributed to the avoidance of stressors.

Why were we not taught how to cope with stressors without being intoxicated?

Group therapy sessions were sluggish. We could barely stay awake, let alone alert.

It took me a long time to learn to question the opinion of the psychiatrists. After I refused meds, I received a lot of support from the nurses and psych techs on the ward. The nurses gave me daily positive feedback to help me stay off the psych meds. They'd say how good I was doing or how much better I appeared to be. Yet the psychiatrists were freaking out I wasn't taking my medications. Apparently, the nurses had a problem with the way the psychiatrists were overmedicating the patients with PTSD.

Gosh, this brings back so many memories!!!!