Yes, it IS Possible to Recover from Mental Illness
All about the lies sold to us by the money-hungry industry of "mental health"
It's possible to recover from mental illness.
For many of us, recovery first requires being willing to question and even walk away from the "answers" we've been getting from our psychiatrists and even general practitioners.
I know it's possible to recover because I've done it.
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder six times (my first "episode" was in October 2018; my last was in July 2020).
I've also been diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, C-PTSD, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder.
Guess how many meds I'm taking right now for aaaalllll those “lifelong” diagnoses?
Zero.
But to get to this place, I had to look the system square in the face first.
Between 2018 and 2020, in the aftermath of a tumultuous divorce in which deep betrayal, a business, and a lot of money were at stake, I was hospitalized against my will four separate times in three different states.
In all, six different psychiatrists told me I had bipolar disorder.
And not a single one of them spoke to me about my substance use.
Nobody could prove to me I had it; they'd just consulted and/or memorized a list of symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("the DSM") and subjectively decided I "had" bipolar disorder.
There are no diagnostic tests or imaging required for diagnosis -- because no diagnostic testing or imaging exists.
In fact, there are no tests for any of the 541 disorders in that manual.
The "disorders" in the DSM are all made-up labels that are part of a very popular theory to explain human suffering.
Let me say that again with more oomph :)
All of the disorders in the DSM are made-up labels that are part of a very popular THEORY that is only ONE WAY to explain human suffering.
The medical establishment (fueled by "psychiatry" as a school of thought) looks at suffering through a medical lens.
According to the theory, people suffer because of something they can’t do anything about; therefore, “treatment” is required — usually in the form of medication for life.
The word medication is a euphemism for drugs.
Nobody would take the “medication” if they were called what they were — mind-altering substances.
Drugs.
That’s why they’re called “medication” instead. It’s the same reason drugs like Abilify are called “mood stabilizers” when they’re actually antipsychotic drugs. They invented the term “mood stabilizer” to make the drug seem less dangerous.
Most recently, "genetics" has been the often-cited cause of mental disorders.
Not traumatic events.
Not toxins in the brain.
Not nutrient or mineral deficiency in the brain.
Not dehydration.
Not exhaustion.
None of these logical things… no; it’s in your genes that you're gonna feel and act wacko for the rest of your life.
Oh, and it comes on without warning, too.
The most we get is that the real, underlying causes get labeled as “triggers,” but the common spiel we see play out in psychiatrists' offices is this:
a patient presents with "mental disorder" symptoms
the psychiatrist matches the symptoms to a list in the DSM
the psychiatrist prescribes a drug to "treat" those symptoms.
MAYBE the psychiatrist sends the patient to a therapist to "accept" their diagnosis and learn to cope with it. But generally, the first line of treatment is to push pills.
Very seldom does the doctor inform the patient of the true risks of the drugs -- especially long term.
So many mainstream psychiatrists have been taught their “craft” by the drug companies who come into their schools to do "lunch and learns" or who directly pay their instructors to teach how to prescribe specific drugs to increase how often those drugs are sold.
A lot of people believe psychiatry is real science. They believe the studies released proving the efficacy of "treatment" is real science.
But just because something is sold to us as "science" doesn't make it so.
There are literally billions of marketing dollars behind the "studies" that come out.
There are literally zero research dollars going into finding the real cure because the real cure can't logically come from a pill.
That's because an organic body or brain cannot be completely healthy and balanced if we swallow a synthetic substance every day.
Sometimes I get comments on my TikToks from people who claim, "I'm on psych meds, but I'm perfectly healthy."
I can absolutely understand why they believe they're healthy -- especially if they appear to be functioning in daily life and they're not in the hospital actively dying from a horrifying disease.
But it's an illusion.
Health isn't simply the absence of the symptoms that once plagued you.
There's a general lack of awareness of what it means to be healthy (especially mentally). It's become so normalized to be on meds. It's just a part of life to be prescribed something for some incurable illness.
For many decades, the American Psychiatric Association has worked closely with pharmaceutical companies and its many minions (instructing doctors in medical schools) to perpetuate the lie that mental illness is simply genetic.
That there's nothing we can do about it.
That it just happens.
They spread a huge lie that a deficiency of serotonin caused depression.
They spread this lie because it made it easier to market and sell antidepressants, i.e. dangerous chemicals that they purported would "correct the chemical imbalance in the brain."
But it was all lies. Similar to mood stabilizer, the term antidepressant itself was coined specifically to make the drugs easy to market.
"I'm depressed! Of course I want an antidepressant! It just makes sense."
Boom. They caught another one.
But all these drugs (let's call them what they are, drugs) do is create a chemical imbalance in the body.
The "scientists" don't even know how they work, and that's because they don't actually work. They suppress the symptoms, giving the illusion of efficacy. Not to mention, it's actually the placebo effect is credited for approximately 75% of the apparent effectiveness of antidepressants.
That's why it "works" for some. Many people have told me on TikTok that antidepressants saved their lives. But the truth is they saved their lives. It was their belief that they would get better that caused them to get better.
But are they really saved? Are they really better?
Because 100% of the time, psychiatric medications cause an imbalance in the body.
They always lead to other symptoms.
Again, there is no way for an organic body or brain to be completely healthy and balanced when we take a synthetic substance to mask symptoms. The two don't mix. The body can learn to adapt, but true vitality and synthetic pills can't exist in harmony.
That doesn’t mean psych meds can never be helpful. And all the "studies" that show the effectiveness are short-term studies. Long-term use, however, of any psychiatric drugs always causes a decline in health.
When we rely on psych meds to function, it's like constantly wearing a life preserver. We're drowning, so we grab onto it, and then, because it "saved our life," we continue wearing it for the rest of our lives -- instead of targeting why we were drowning in the first place.
To really be free and recover from mental illness, we have to get to the root cause of the symptoms... not just cover them up.
The resources I consulted to get to the root cause of my mental illness symptoms are the Medical Medium texts. I’m a lifelong scholar of this life-changing information. If you’re new to the information and struggling with symptoms of any kind of “mystery” illness — especially “mental disorders” or “autoimmune disorders,” these books will blow your mind in the best way.
I always recommend starting with the original book, titled Medical Medium.
Of course, none of this is medical advice, but my work has been shown to ameliorate the effects of previous medical advice.