Cult Recovery Steps Work for Psychiatric Drug Survivors Too

     Kelsey Decker spent eight years in a high-control spiritual group, The Ishaya’s Ascension. Also known as The Bright Path, it offered costly brainwashing meditative techniques under an authoritarian leadership. She managed to extricate herself from it twenty years ago, but spent the first ten years struggling to reorient herself to real life and to her real self. At first, she hadn’t even known she had been in a cult.|

     She has now published The Unofficial Survival Guide to help others recover from similarly destructive manipulation in other “cults.” She lists eighty-nine specific tips for recovery as survivors progresses through eight general aspects of restoring themselves after suffering the trauma of destructive manipulation by a cult.
Those eight aspects of recovery apply equally as well to anyone who has been harmed by the “cult” of psychiatric medicine. They include nervous system and psychological healing, identity reconstruction, relationships and social recovery, and spiritual recovery.

     Long term ingestion of such toxic substances as Lexapro, Zoloft, Prozac, and Celexa disrupt the natural harmony of the nervous system and consequently the stability of one’s psyche. A safe, slow tapering off these drugs is essential before a full recovery can occur and a sane reconstruction of one’s identity can begin.
A psychiatric patient has been told by an “authority” who cannot be challenged and who “knows” more than any patient does – in other words, the psychiatrist – that one has a mental disorder occasioned by a chemical imbalance. One is therefore stigmatized for life because of one’s mental “disease.” All false, of course, but often difficult labels to get out of one’s head.

     A person recovering from psychiatric treatment often needs to reestablish bonds with family and community. The semi-zombie state that these drugs can induce put one out of human touch to a greater or lesser degree from those one has been close to. Those bonds need to be re-established for full recovery.

     A spiritual recovery will also need to take place. One needs to un-brainwash oneself from the idea that one is one’s brain and is subservient to it. One might be intimately connected to one’s mind – which itself is non-physical and separate from the brain – but the mind  s much closer to one’s native spiritual identity than the brain. That truth that will need to be discovered or re-discovered and newly experienced for recovery. The manipulative “religion” of psychiatry is, in fact, the least spiritual religion on the planet.

     Psychiatry a cult? Who knew?

     There are eighty million Americans on anti-depressants who apparently don’t know, just as Kelsey Decker didn’t know she was part of The Bright Path cult. Better buy anybody you know taking antidepressants a copy of her Unofficial Survival Guide so they have a chance of extricating themselves from this dangerous psychiatric cult.