Healing from Psychiatry

Tapering support

Support Groups

BenzoBuddies community are encouraged to exchange ideas, information and support during the process of withdrawal and recovery from prescribed benzodiazepines.

Surviving Antidepressants is a support website for people tapering and recovering from the effects of antidepressants. While some people may be able to quickly stop taking psychiatric medications without serious discontinuation symptoms, others cannot.

More Groups on Benzodiazepine Information Coalition

Books

The Ashton Manual is considered the "bible" of benzodiazepine tapering and withdrawal

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform by Robert Whitaker

Death Grip: A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness by Matt Samet

Recovery and Renewal: Your essential guide to overcoming dependency and withdrawal from sleeping pills, other benzodiazepine tranquillisers and antidepressants by Baylissa Frederick

Organizations

Mad In America is a non-profit whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for remaking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad.

Inner Compass Initiative provides information, resources, tools, and connecting platforms to facilitate more informed choices regarding all things "mental health" and to support individuals and groups around the world who wish to leave, bypass, or build community beyond the mental health system. More resources from Inner Compass.

Benzodiazepine Information Coalition is a non-profit organization that advocates for greater understanding of the potentially devastating effects of commonly prescribed benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Ativan, Valium, and Klonopin, as well as prevention of patient injury through medical recognition, informed consent, and education.

The Bristol & District Tranquiliser Project is a voluntary sector organisation set up originally in 1985 in England to help those having problems with certain prescribed psychotropic medication (benzodiazepine tranquillisers/sleeping tablets, other sleeping tablets and antidepressants).

Recovery-Road is a chairtable organization formed by Baylissa Frederick based out of England which supports people as they taper and recover from tranquilizers (benzodiazepines) and sleep drugs, along with other psychiatric medications.

The Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEPUK) exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.

International Spiritual Emergence Network provides a collaborative platform that connects networks around the world and offers compassionate support to those who understand their experiences to be a spiritual crisis rather than a mental illness, raising awareness of a non-pathological integral framework within the mental health field.

Websites

Beyond Meds is a website created by psychiatric survivor Monica C. This blog documents and shares many natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit.

DOCUMENTARIES

As Prescribed is a documentary which highlights the dangers of prescribed benzodiazepines.

Letters from Generation RX features the devastation that psychiatric drugs can cause.

Medicating Normal is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

Articles

The Boston Globe, When Withdrawal is the hardest part by Jeremy Fox

FDA, FDA requires labeling changes for benzodiazepines

World Health.net, Can Taking Xanax Lead to Suicidal Thoughts?

Live Science, Killer Drugs? Homicide Risk Linked to Medications by Cari Nierenberg

The Gazette, Thousands of Colorado patients put in peril due to risky prescribing of psych medicine by Christopher Osher and Evan Wyloge

FDA requires 'black box' warnings for opioids, benzodiazepines