Anti-doctor, Anti-psychiatrist and Anti-medicine Comments

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Anti-doctor, Anti-psychiatrist and Anti-medicine Comments

Many of our members report negative experiences with doctors, psychiatrists, the pharmaceutical industry, health regulators, or the medical profession as a whole. While we do not wish to outlaw comments about how members feel let down or mistreated in their personal medical care, you must keep your feelings and comments in perspective.

Some of our members are vulnerable and might be rather suggestible when they arrive at our community. Your comments might have undue and unintended consequences for some of those reading them. Your personal experiences with the medical profession are precisely this – your personal experiences. It is the view of BenzoBuddies that it would be irresponsible for members to fail to seek or ignore medical advice from their doctors, psychiatrists and other healthcare providers. Of course, doctors can and do make mistakes, and there is much confusion and misinformation about potential side and withdrawal effects of benzodiazepines. But if you are dissatisfied with the advice or service provided by your doctor, you should probably seek the opinion of another doctor. Medical advice from your doctor should not be replaced by the suggestions of anonymous people on the internet. You should discuss with your doctor any ideas and suggestions made by members of this community and website.

By suggesting that others should not trust doctors, psychiatrists and the medical profession as a whole, you potentially endanger other members and visitors to this forum. BenzoBuddies is not an anti-doctor or anti-psychiatry website. Our members need their doctors, not only to supply them with prescriptions for benzodiazepines, but to meet all their other medical needs too. In short, you are free to describe the shortcomings in your own medical treatment, but make clear that you are writing about your personal experiences; do not spread general anti-doctor or anti-psychiatric propaganda.

We ask members to help themselves and this community by wearing their 'critical thinking hats' when they come across anti-psychiatry comments at BenzoBuddies (please report such occurrences) or elsewhere. And if in any doubt, please Contact the Team in advance of posting information, a link, or video.