Is psychiatry medicine or a dangerous gamble?

Taking prescribed psychiatric drugs (medications) has been likened to playing Russian Roulette*: you stand an unacceptably serious risk of becoming a long-term emotional wreck or of dying because the drugs have harmful effects, including death by suicide.

You can only hope that the doctor (usually a GP or psychiatrist) who prescribed the drug does not know what he or she is doing, because if he or she did know how dangerous the drugs are and still prescribed them, what would you conclude about his or her motives?

The inevitable conclusion is unthinkable, but we do need to think about it and we need to talk about it because all the doctors’ patients, and all potential patients (which means all of us), are likely to be put at risk.

Ignorance is no excuse. Nor is turning a blind eye.

This bad practice, or malpractice, has broken the widespread trust we all had in doctors and leaves us asking, ‘Can we trust doctors at all now?’ and ‘Whom else could we turn to for help?’

This website offers reliable and trustworthy answers.

It is the doctors’ duty to be fully informed about the wanted helpful effects and the unwanted harmful effects of the treatment they prescribe. And it is their moral and legal duty to explain it all clearly so their patients can understand it.

Ample evidence for all this has been known for the last few decades and pubished in academic journals and in books available to all doctors everywhere; but we, the public, are not shown it or told about it: some of it can be accessed through links on this website.

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* Russian Roulette: a revolver has one bullet in it and five empty chambers. It is held to your head or heart and the trigger pulled.