Kent Shultz | Escaping a Web of Psychiatry | Psychology Is Podcast 58

Psychiatric survivor's candid story. Kent openly shares with Nick the details of what led him to see a psychiatrist, and the misdiagnoses, and overprescribing that ensued.
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[@psychologyis]

If you, or someone you know is looking to get off psychiatric drugs, here are some helpful resources: - www.madinamerica.com/ - withdrawal.theinnercompass.org/ - breggin.com/a-guide-for-prescribers-therapists-patients-and-their-families/ - medicatingnormal.com/psychiatric-drug-withdrawal/

[@TruthTeller-ez7ev]

He explains every time he goes to a doctor they come up with a new diagnosis. If there really was a mental illness it wouldn't be a different diagnosis at every single doctor.

[@stevekaylor5606]

"Mental illness" itself plays into disease-like Freudian labeling - which denounces and dehumanizes. Neurotoxic drugs/ECT are next!

[@troublesome.94]

I really feel for him. He has struggled so much. But he gives me hope for my situation. God bless this young man

[@mariewojtulewicz143]

Lots of love and many blessings your way, Kent.

[@Greenmanure62]

An interesting, although very sad interview. Well done to this young man for telling his story. It must have been very difficult. Great stamina and fortitude! I have experience myself of medical gaslighting.

[@kristinmeyer489]

Me too. It's for "our" "health."

[@Greenmanure62]

@@kristinmeyer489 Sorry to hear that. I think it's more common than people think unfortunately.

[@user-3282]

Searching out psych meds, psychedelics, ECT, TMS, are all just ways of avoiding taking personal responsibility for something that is wrong in our lives that we aren't prepared to face or fix. It doesn't mean these symptoms aren't real because they are, but it's false attribution and looking for external validation or external fixes. He improved when he empowered himself to personal meaning and purpose.

[@haileysmom2358]

Amazing interview full of insights. Thank you

[@psychologyis]

Love that you found it meaningful!

[@krystle8534]

Very interesting. I hope he goes into mental healthcare. I can imagine that it would be challenging to meet perspectives that you know from your own experience is causing harm, but the mental healthcare system really needs oppositional perspectives and real insight. Although I know Peter Gøtzsche has said that the system is so rotten that it can't be changed from within, it has to be completely rebuilt. Anyway, the best of luck!

[@user-3282]

Great post

[@stevekaylor5606]

Yes, the Mental Health Industry {their term} must be rebuilt from scratch! @@user-3282

[@MikeKrall]

I understand the feeling of not caring about anything. It’s terrible 😢

[@mikebucur8461]

Great video.

[@MikeKrall]

Thank you for sharing this 😊🙏🙏

[@psychologyis]

Thank you so much for your engagement and support!

[@MikeKrall]

I’ve been diagnosed with several different illnesses but I don’t think I have any of them.

[@user-3282]

Having a Silicon Valley job, a serious relationship, probably conflicting everything he felt because its deeply part of the cultural narrative. Even though the job provided income, and his nice girlfriend possibly supported up to a point. Now he has neither, and that's a step closer to where he should probably be. Getting entangled with SV Tech industry and toying with longterm relationships and the commitment and responsibilities of marriage, kids, home and innevitable material stuff and drama of that, are all going to suck him back to the place that is injuring him. Its really tough. I feel for him.

[@stevekaylor5606]

If someone is depressed or distracted - find out 2 or 3 things that are bothering him and design some improvements. Don't brand him with disease-like Freudian labels and then force him to take neurotoxic drugs. Instead, have him join happy clapping, stomping and laughter classes - with bongo drumming. Soon he will develop a mental + emotional dedication, a cathexis - which is what mental health is!

[@user-3282]

These lifelong existential struggles that begin in childhood are, I think, best explored through philosophy and philosophers, maybe spiritual searching. Going to a family doctor or psychiatrist will just medicalise something that isn't medical at its root. Classic psychiatry rabbit hole story, I think.

[@shawnleong3605]

Just wondering if your interviews will be made avaialble on Spotify or Apple?

[@psychologyis]

They sure are! All podcasts are available now on Spotify, Apple, and many other platforms

[@shawnleong3605]

@@psychologyis thanks!

[@user-3282]

I would say he was instinctively on the right path originally by reading philosophers and great thinkers, authors. Medicine and psychiatry doesnt have any answers for these kind of existential feelings. He needed a big change of lifestyle and change of core values and beliefs; exploring his interests in philosophy, would have been the right path. Convoluting these existential feelings with medicine or psychiatry is a complete waste of time and will actually make you lose faith in humanity by the deception and medicated confusion it will cause.

[@stevekaylor5606]

Medicated confusion is a great descriptive term. Like dissociation!

[@MikeKrall]

Really interesting. I was on Zyprexa and it was terrible. Got sick and lost weight and my stomach was messed up. And it didn’t really help me sleep. Keep up the good work ❤

[@ryan-gp3zq]

psychiatry killed me from constipation