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Customer Rating: 
Summary: This book is a
must-read for independent
thinkers.
Comment: In
a culture so brainwashed with the Doctor as Deity myth, it's
time we started thinking critically about the sources of
information we rely so heavily on where our minds and bodies
are concerned. The cult-like mentality that insists we blindly
"follow doctors orders" discourages due heed to what our own
questions are. This book serves as a landmark in exposing the
dynamics of this cult, and shatters the glass bubble that has
long-protected doctors from accountability. It's high time we
re-wrote the "doctor knows best" mantra. This is a must-read
for independent thinkers, and I challenge any psychiatrist
with integrity to pick it up, rather than leaving it to the
powers-that-be to form their opinion for them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An Important
Alternative
Comment: This is an excellent
book for professionals and patients alike. The authors provide
an important guide for those seeking to
get off psychiatric drugs. The book is very readable,
and the authors pulled off the difficult task of making it
interesting to a wide variety of people. Although Breggin and Cohen are outspoken opponents of the
use of psychiatric drugs, they understand and respect the fact
that it is often difficult for people to break free of their
dependence on these drugs. The book is a must for anyone
taking or considering taking these drugs, and for
professionals seeking to help clients who want to stop using
them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: will help you
from being poisoned by "safe"
neurotoxins
Comment: Psychiatrist Peter
Breggin and Social Work Professor David Cohen have written a
long-overdue book on psychopoisons
masquerading as "safe and effective medication". Your Drug May
Be Your Problem addresses many key issues such as your right
to be fully informed about these drugs, particularly their
risks and non-medical alternatives, and especially the
practical steps you can take to withdraw safely from the
"antipsychotics"(neuroleptics), antidepressants and
tranquilizers. The "10-percent method" in chapter 8 should be
a big help to many psych survivors trying to withdraw. Other
things I like about this book are its clear explanations and
warnings about serious withdrawal reactions and its
easy-to-understand language free of the usual psychobabble.
This book could help save your health or life. Urge your
doctor or shrink to buy a copy and demand they stop listening
to the multinational drug pushers!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
source of hard-to-find drug
information.
Comment: This is the perfect
book for anyone who wonders why she or he
feels WORSE -- whether emotionally or physically -- when using
psychiatric drugs like Prozac or lithium. Both easy to
understand and thoroughly researched, "Your Drug May Be Your
Problem" explains why the drugs are dangerous, how to safely
stop using them, and how to deal with emotional crises without
resorting to drugs. In a culture in which psychiatric drugs
are pushed by everyone from the White House down to the
neighborhood elementary school, this book is a refreshing
change. I WISH I'd had the information contained in this book
six years ago when doctors put me on a nightmarish regimen of
psychiatric drugs. All in all, a fascinating and
enlightening read.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Vital
information for treatment providers and
consumers.
Comment: Peter Breggin and
David Cohen have compiled critically important information
that should be read by mental health treatment providers and
consumers as well. The material is
presented in a clear and concise way and covers issues of
medication effects, the "pseudo-science" behind medications
and discusses why medications are too often relied upon as the
only "effective" treatment. This book is a great
resource.
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stoned hippy on narcotics & should call N.A.
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