[HD7970GHZ]

Hi PTSD community,

Trigger warnings...

I am triggered... I stumbled across a website that validates my trauma at the hands of criminals and unethical professionals in the healthcare industry... I am so angry how commonplace these issues are and I wish I could do something positive to change it. My plan is to do just that.

I am so angry. Mass coverups, unethical malpractise, murders, abuses, threats to victims to stay silent...

I am not alone and the more I realize how common this is the more I lose faith in humanity. These are helping professionals doing these things! It is absolutely disgusting! They have zero accountability and now there is a culture that has normalized these behaviors.

I am so scared people. I want someone to prove me wrong (that humans CAN be trusted) otherwise I don't think I will EVER recover.

Thanks,
Hd7970ghz

[kenziemae312]

Originally Posted by HD7970GHZ

Hi PTSD community,

Trigger warnings...

I am triggered... I stumbled across a website that validates my trauma at the hands of criminals and unethical professionals in the healthcare industry... I am so angry how commonplace these issues are and I wish I could do something positive to change it. My plan is to do just that.

I am so angry. Mass coverups, unethical malpractise, murders, abuses, threats to victims to stay silent...

I am not alone and the more I realize how common this is the more I lose faith in humanity. These are helping professionals doing these things! It is absolutely disgusting! They have zero accountability and now there is a culture that has normalized these behaviors.

I am so scared people. I want someone to prove me wrong (that humans CAN be trusted) otherwise I don't think I will EVER recover.

Thanks,
Hd7970ghz

You will recover. I also have a very hard time with triggers that deal with medical professionals. I went to my doc about the numbness in my arm and leg. I have 2 pinched nerves, 3 bulging discs and 2 turned vertebrae along my back. All of it caused by trauma starting at the age of 16/17. I'm 36 now. The PA who took my vitals was a man and I immediately started having a panic attack. I was crying and shaking, terribly embarrassed because this young man is just doing his job, and I can't control the irrational fear that I couldn't get away if he was to try to harm me.
My doctor refuses to prescribe anything for anxiety, depression etc. She will however give me plenty of flexeril should I ever need to put and to my life. I have told her on every occasion that I do not take them. I have 3 young children to care for. I cannot stay awake if I take one. Yet, she writes me for 3 a day. So, yeah you're not the only one with trust issues. Right there with you. Take care. Nothin but

I am personally convinced that psychiatric medications are a scam. I firmly believe that they are purposely loaded with negative side effects to control people and make them need more so big pharma makes more money off them. To me, they aren't much different than the sugar pills given in clinical trials to replicate the placebo effect.

The mental health system is a system rooted in corporate greed. You are right not to trust them. There are plenty of other alternative ways to get better, such as diet, exercise, meditation, supplements, mindfulness, self help books, ETC.

You aren't the problem; they are.

[kenziemae312]

Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend

I am personally convinced that psychiatric medications are a scam. I firmly believe that they are purposely loaded with negative side effects to control people and make them need more so big pharma makes more money off them. To me, they aren't much different than the sugar pills given in clinical trials to replicate the placebo effect.

The mental health system is a system rooted in corporate greed. You are right not to trust them. There are plenty of other alternative ways to get better, such as diet, exercise, meditation, supplements, mindfulness, self help books, ETC.

You aren't the problem; they are.

I agree with you. I don't much approve of the way medications are advertised and pushed on the doctors to prescribe. The side effects of the new meds are sometimes, most times it seems, worse than what the med is supposed to treat. Last year, I had a personal breakthrough on the causes of my physical pain. I took myself off the meds and went natural. Today, I get to talk with a spine specialist about the injuries. I'm irrationally fearful of even possible surgery. Yesterday, I spoke w/a new therapist to start DBT. She doesn't think I'm ready for it. What she doesn't get is that I HAVE to do it. She told me that a mood stabilizer would be beneficial. I've tried a lot of different meds in the past and the most common effect they had on me? I didn't feel. I wasn't happy, or sad or mad. Nothing. I'd rather my emotions be all over the place than non-existent.

[Feral-kun]

Originally Posted by kenziemae312

I agree with you. I don't much approve of the way medications are advertised and pushed on the doctors to prescribe. The side effects of the new meds are sometimes, most times it seems, worse than what the med is supposed to treat. Last year, I had a personal breakthrough on the causes of my physical pain. I took myself off the meds and went natural. Today, I get to talk with a spine specialist about the injuries. I'm irrationally fearful of even possible surgery. Yesterday, I spoke w/a new therapist to start DBT. She doesn't think I'm ready for it. What she doesn't get is that I HAVE to do it. She told me that a mood stabilizer would be beneficial. I've tried a lot of different meds in the past and the most common effect they had on me? I didn't feel. I wasn't happy, or sad or mad. Nothing. I'd rather my emotions be all over the place than non-existent.

The side effects are horrible, I went on one med, that caused me to go from 190lbs to around 230lbs in 6 months. now I wonder what is worse, dealing with ptsd or dealing with being overweight?

Originally Posted by Feral-kun

The side effects are horrible, I went on one med, that caused me to go from 190lbs to around 230lbs in 6 months. now I wonder what is worse, dealing with ptsd or dealing with being overweight?

I would take the PTSD. I used to weigh 240 as a child because of a medicine that I was on and I refuse to be like that ever again. I have to deal with stretch marks all over my body as an adult that disgust me every time I look at them because of those stupid drugs that they had me on. Never again.

Getting in good physical shape works wonders for one's self esteem. Let's see a psychiatric drug top that.

[Fuzzybear]