I have personal experience of seeking help with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). I also have personal experience of considering taking my own life by suicide. These instances have been as a result of feeling physically and mentally distraught, and with a fear that there may be no realistic potential for improvement in my condition.
Presently, I am enjoying improved wellbeing, and would like to share some information in case it may be of use to other stakeholders in the consideration of MAiD.
Around fifteen years ago I first experienced what I would describe as a psychotic episode. My perception of reality altered dramatically, as did the ways in which I interacted with my environment and the ways in which I behaved.
Following a visit to a psychiatrist I was given an ‘antipsychotic’, and told that I would be on ‘medication’ for the rest of my life.
During fifteen years of experiencing intermittent psychotic episodes, among long periods of normality, I have noted the following:
There has been a tendency for psychiatrists to encourage, persuade, coerce and enforce use of ‘medications’, not only for acute episodes of psychosis, but for ‘prophylactic’ purposes. ie during periods in my life when I have been well and had capacity. They have gone to mental health tribunals on five occasions and been able to have use of ‘medication’ enforced during periods of wellness by claiming that I have ‘significantly impaired decision making ability (SIDMA)’.
Use of ‘medication’ has had significant adverse effects for me, including causing akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and inducing suicidal thoughts.
No psychiatrist that I’ve interacted with as a patient has informed me adequately of potential risks of adverse effects (side effects) of taking ‘medication’. It therefore took me a long time to make some conclusions about potential cause and effect relationships.
I have wanted to end my life several times. Shortly after experiencing my first episodes of psychosis I made inquiries to the ‘Dignitas’ organisation in Switzerland and received written information regarding the process of assisted suicide.
In retrospect, I associate the suicidal thoughts with times that I have either been on ‘medication’, or withdrawing from use. I consider the likelihood of there being a causal relationship to be high. During these periods psychiatrists have described my mental state as ‘stable’ and ‘well’.
Again, looking retrospectively, I have no experience of mental ill health, when not using ‘medication’, causing me to want to contemplate ending my life.
During these fifteen or so years, I have found that psychiatrists interacted with me in ways that neither recognised the severity of the distress that I was in, nor the potential for it to have an iatrogenic cause.
In addition, due to the trust that close family members, who care about me a lot, had in the medical profession, my descriptions of unbearable effects from the use of ‘medications’, and my preference to be dead rather than have to continue experiencing them, have not been taken as seriously as they otherwise would have been if reliable information had been presented by those responsible for my treatment. This is not an issue specific to me, nor people close to me: in general, patients and members of the public are not well informed about risks from use of ‘antipsychotics’.
To broaden the context, in my work with a mental health advocacy group, I have learned that not everyone who experiences psychosis does so in the ways that I do. Some find episodes to be very distressing, and welcome use of ‘antipsychotics’ as a means to alleviate the distress. Therefore, I am aware that not all mental health experiences relating to wanting to die necessarily align with my perception of only iatrogenic factors being involved.
I can imagine circumstances where someone’s mental or physical distress, regardless of causes, would not be able to be alleviated by any intervention presently available. In these instances I would be empathetic to the patient’s perspective on assisted dying.
However, I would like to think also, that consideration would be able to be given to possible iatrogenic causes of distress in any decision-making process about whether to proceed with MAiD.
In particular, I would hope that recognition would be given to a risk of providing assisted dying to a patient who, with a change of treatment plan, could have gone on to enjoy a good quality of life.
Taking account of my own experiences, I would be wary of poorly evidenced ‘expert psychiatric opinion’ in any ethical considerations.
annie says
So Whose Fault is it that proposals for writers, as described here, are put in the position of seeking MaiD?
Is it the Drugs?
Is it the Drug Manufacturers?
Is it the Regulators?
Is it the Prescribers/
Is it the Guidelines?
Is it bunching all this together, a death too far?
As people can reclaim their lives having been drugged and come out the other end, so it is that suicides and homicides of a violent nature can be dismissed and wrongful imprisonment occurring in most instances, if the accused has managed to survive.
MAiD seems to piggy-back right on top of what is already ‘crimes against humanity’ as the extreme nature of these drugs is mostly ignored.
It always seems to come back down to sheer ignorance and wilful blindness when mostly these drugs are seen as benign.
They are far from benign and the little understood Akathisia which can lead to a death in seconds is hardly addressed. If it is addressed it is done so in words that generally go a long way to suppressing what has really gone on in the person’s mind or the mind of the prescriber.
The story can be written which can be screamingly obvious but is totally let down by the weird way in which it is addressed and written up by persons who are medical in nature but whose language and design misses so much of what is profoundly obvious.
Its like a huge confidence trick that has taken over the world leaving medical persons not in charge of their senses.
If people are told repeatedly and for decades that they need medication for the rest of their life, are labelled with increasing regularity as personality disordered or worse, are deluged with drugs to treat the effects of often a poorly prescribed drug in the first place and then have a diagnosis of TRD, then it is this MAiD who will see increasing numbers clambering at their doors.
It is not the way to go and people like this writer who sees the light are the ones to be listened to.
It should escape nobody’s attention that Boeing who killed hundreds of passengers due to a colossal mistake in their automatic flight system are still trying to escape not only huge losses to their reputation but who are still inveigled in an aviation scandal.
The 737 Max, Boeing’s latest generation of the single-aisle aircraft, was grounded after two crashes killed 346 people within a five-month span. The jet was cleared to fly again by U.S. regulators in November, followed by regulators in Europe and most other major markets aside from China and India.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/boeing-grounds-some-737-max-jets-over-possible-electrical-issue
Just like the Drug Companies hoisting themselves far away from any involvement and which drips down to our doctors.
Hardly anything that is written is true, mostly couched in strange versions of truths that are a million miles away from a logic that are primarily just fairy tales.
It is extremely worrying, the romantic notions that MAiD is doing us a service.
Once gone, you can’t come back – ‘without of shadow of a doubt’ …
All of life is a risk and the risks just got greater.
Assisted dying isn’t the kind of help that mentally ill people need
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-maid-bill-isnt-the-kind-of-help-that-mentally-ill-people-need/
He was a stranger, but his life mattered. Which side of him would you stand on?
susanne says
I think this campaign is relevant. The slippery slope can take many hidden twists and turns and there is no knowing where coercion to take vaccines will lead. It has been tried and succeeded in some European countries. Already in psychiatry it is used to 0ver-medicate people against their will and better judgement. I do support it myself both with donations and as here in trying to publicise the campaign to gain more support for – Medical Freedom Bill: Help us Protect our Rights
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We have been through a year of turmoil here in the UK as well as abroad. We are all looking forward to the reopening of society however there is a threat to us all. This comes in the form of vaccine passports or Covid-19 status certifications that infringe upon our medical freedom.
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susanne says
Who is being screwed? The ‘revered Andrew Green says –
@DrAndrewGreen
8 April 2021
If the instruction to advise patients about a side effect which happens once in 250,000 interventions sets a precedent for standards for informed consent for treatment we’re all screwed.
Dr Andrew Green
29 August 2019
Dr Green has helped improve patient safety at a practice, regional and national level. As a member of NHS England’s Primary Care Patient Safety Expert Group, he developed a set of standards to help minimise risk associated with poor handover of test results from secondary to primary care. This aims to ensure more seamless transition of care, timelier review of discharge letters and improved communication of results to patients, and was included in the 2017-18 secondary care contract.
In his former role as BMA GP Committee prescribing lead, Dr Green was involved in projects to limit use of poorly evidenced medication, resulting in fewer unnecessary prescriptions and saving money at practice and CCG level.
It is not just on a national level where Dr Green has made a diff erence. He is revered by practice colleagues, having secured protected morning breaks for staff to safeguard their mental health in a pressurised environment.
Justin Oxley says
To my simple mind that likes to think about computers and algorithms, the ssri prescription dynamic appears to be a long drawn out slow-motion plane crash, perhaps nobody will notice until the mass shootings grow in frequency and there is a new one on the News every day do things have to get that bizarre before people figure this out ? There must be a threshold at which the scale of this issue becomes so bleeding obvious to become news worthy. I keep watching the politicians to see if the clear ssri connection pops into their heads and comes out of their mouths, after these increasingly frequent disasters, they never seem to mention the drugs are they too scared of the prescription drug people to state the facts ? I’ve seen enough evidence to convince me a million times that there is a clear problem with the ssri prescription machine, I find it very disturbing which is just what you want when your moods are swinging about erratically, these days I find I have an increasing need to have a lie down that can’t be considered healthy for anyone.
annie says
A bit about the politics –
The ‘lobbying’ problem with David Cameron.is hotting up – but how about GSK?
GSK CEO Andrew Witty Joins David Cameron In China Amid Bribery Probe
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/02/glaxosmithkline-china-davidcameron_n_4370643.html
David Cameron defends GSK during China trip
David Cameron has risked angering the Chinese government by launching a robust defence of GlaxoSmithKline as the UK drug company steps up its battle to save its reputation in the country.
https://www.ft.com/content/055dca3e-5c44-11e3-b4f3-00144feabdc0
GSK is facing prosecution from Chinese authorities over allegations of bribery, while dozens of its local employees and a UK man it used as a corporate investigator remain in detention. The prime minister gave public backing to the company on Tuesday during his three-day trade mission to China. He told reporters in Shanghai:
“They are a very important, very decent and strong British business that is a long-term investor in China. “Britain has a record of properly standing up for British businesses and British individuals . . .[and] having a proper dialogue with the Chinese authorities about the issues.”
Mr Cameron raised the GSK case with Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, during talks in Beijing on Monday, as investigators probe allegations the company bribed local doctors to sell GSK’s medicines.
Andrew Witty, GSK chief executive, is part of a business delegation accompanying Mr Cameron in China, signalling an intensification of efforts to resolve the dispute.
Among those being detained by Chinese authorities is Peter Humphrey, a British national and corporate investigator who worked as a contractor for GSK. In an interview with the Financial Times, Harvey Humphrey, Mr Humphrey’s son, appealed for Sir Andrew to use his time in China with the prime minister to campaign for his father’s release. Harvey Humphrey said: “I know Andrew Witty is in China this week and I hope he can take a few minutes to raise my father’s case. “I understand everything is complicated in China but it seems my parents are paying a big price.” His mother, Yu Yingzeng, a US citizen, has also been imprisoned, which their son suggested was a result of GSK’s work in the country. Chinese state television in August aired an apology from Mr Humphrey, who was wearing handcuffs and an orange prison vest, as he confessed to illegally obtaining private information from Chinese citizens.
It was the latest in a series of televised confessions, and one of the first involving a foreigner, which have worried legal observers about the violation of due process in China. Harvey Humphrey, who is 18, said: “I am extremely concerned about what will happen next. It’s extremely unpredictable.”
Sir Andrew spent much of Wednesday speaking to GSK colleagues in Shanghai, missing the prime minister’s showcase business banquet. He told reporters he hoped there would be an update soon both on the fate of Mr Humphrey and Ms Yu, and the outcome of allegations that it paid up to $500m in bribes to win business. Those accusations have hit his company hard, with third quarter vaccine and drug sales in China down 61 per cent. GSK said the visit was an opportunity to demonstrate that it remained committed to doing business in China.
Its executives hope Mr Cameron’s intervention will help bolster their case, even if it risks undermining the otherwise conciliatory tone of Mr Cameron’s trade mission.
Evan Davis interviewing Andrew Witty at Chatham House –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP6kPJXwAJo&t=8s
Ask him about Seroxat – Ask him about Seroxat – Ask him about Seroxat
Never too soon to start with a bit of Collusion –
Horlicks – “a man with a plan” – the brand matters…
We are effectively alone…
Justin Oxley says
A week is a long time in politics apparently. It’s difficult to imagine how long a week would feel if you were in politics and had akathisia for a week, that situation would feel like an eternity. I’ve eaten my morning supplements and had my ginger tea with the Fluoxetine in it. It’s the same for me each morning I wake up quite stingy and uncomfortable I don’t feel human at all, I robotically go through the motions. I’m an irritable robot that feels all stingy with a stiff neck in the morning nobody wants to wake up feeling like that.
annie says
A Great Line-up, on the Case, appropriately relevant for Drug Wrecks :
James Moore @jf_moore
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Justin Oxley says
CBD oil helps with seizure type conditions by adjusting the sodium pumps activity. There is also quite alot of interest going on at the moment that suggests CBD oil is helpful in mitigating various unpleasant drug withdrawal symptoms as well as other conditions. I was thinking a bit more about this as my niece Annabel in Australia has a condition where she has headaches, seizures and punches the air in her sleep, she was taken to Warragul hospital and given an antipsychotic and is having further tests. I was wondering if givng a child an antipsychotic drug is the best option when there are things like CBD available. There seems to be a significant risk of unpleasant side effects cropping up with antipsychotic drugs.
https://youtu.be/iWF9MmiQUA4
https://youtu.be/DSkb9dzTcfw
If you want to get into the real detail of the CBD oil studies these are the sorts of papers that try to explain why it reduces seizures. It does things to modulate the sodium ion channels, it does get a bit complicated digital electronics is much easier to understand, I like clear amd simple with no ambiguity.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327697646_Inhibitory_effects_of_cannabidiol_on_voltage-dependent_sodium_currents
https://elifesciences.org/articles/58593
I feel alot better today I have no idea why exactly it is random. I might try some CBD oil myself when I feel grotty or stressed I shall spray.some under my tongue. I like the idea of a fairly quick pick me up booster that might help restore my mental clarity when I am feeling grim.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08CYNDB48/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1
Spruce says
A new German documentary on PSSD.
https://youtu.be/JpQO8F9mFIw
You need to change the subtitles from German to English, which I was able to do the first two times I watched it, but now for some strange reason I cant get the English subtitles. Worth trying to see if you can get the English subtitles though, as it is quite interesting to watch.
If you can’t get the English subtitles, this is a brief summary of what happens in the documentary:
A young woman started taking SSRI’s, after becoming depressed, after the death of her mother.
On starting the SSRI, she developed numb genitals (vulva), and nipples, and couldn’t have an orgasm; and this continued for her, even after she came off the SSRI.
After a while she became concerned, and looked online to see if others had suffered something similar, and she realised she was likely suffering from PSSD.
After a while of trying to get help for her PSSD, she eventually found a doctor in Germany who had heard of PSSD.
Through this doctor, she then met another doctor, who had also heard of PSSD.
After he briefly praised the benefits of psychiatric drugs/ SSRI’s, he agrees with a colleague, to try and officially diagnose whether she could be suffering from PSSD.
After telling the two doctors about all of her sexual problems, including that the sexual symptoms started after starting the SSRI, and that she felt the SSRI had caused her sexual problems; the doctors go to deliberate on her diagnosis.
The diagnosis…….. All of her sexual problems have been caused by psychological trauma from the death of her mother.
mmmm sounds likely. So the trauma of her mothers death has suddenly caused her to have numb genitals/ vulva, numb nipples, and be unable to have an orgasm. Strange that SSRI’s can commonly cause all of those symptoms, but the intelligent, expert doctors, who are even aware of PSSD; have pinned all of her sexual problems on psychological trauma from her mothers death.
So even if you find a doctor who has heard of PSSD, and your symptoms specifically fit with the symptoms of PSSD, they still pass them off as psychological, or other factors.
You know it is almost impossible to get anyone to believe you, when you have this condition.
Justin Oxley says
I wondered if anyone had written a Big Pharma management game. Almost everything you can think off has been done already these days.
https://youtu.be/fZACDs09BMY
https://www.thexboxhub.com/big-pharma-review/
Justin Oxley says
I found this paper which shows data for treatment of akathisia Propranolol vs Vitamin B6 both look equally effective.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5958332/#:~:text=Therefore%2C%20vitamin%20B6%20may%20serve,schizophrenia%20(17%2C%2018)
Mike says
I’m finding that MAiD is a very difficult subject but it is always good to have a debate about it.
I live in Belgium where euthanasia because of psychological/psychiatric reasons is possible, under conditions.
My personal opinion on it is it should be possible but is something to be very carefully thought about. As someone being basically mistreated for years by psychopharma and psychiatrists, there is a point you don’t believe/trust anyone in that care field to be able to help you. Sure you can have bad luck and have a bad doctor but in psychiatry with exception of websites such as this there is an extreme lack of transparency and honestly in treatments.
About 6 years ago my best friend had euthanasia because of terminal soft tissue sarcoma. It was very hard but at the same time I was relieved that she died peacefully surrounded by those she loved. On her terms. Without having to suffer. I find equality important so in my opinion the same should be possible for psychiatric patients. At some point the patient has the right to say the pain is enough, this is therapeutic tenacity. Do we rather have them commit suicide with even greater impact on their surrounding people? Hard to answer this of course.
I find it important to respect the wish of the patient. However lets not forget that in the end, if people want MAiD this is because of a systematic failure on multiple levels of society, medicine, science,.. to provide proper care. For years, and still, the mental health field is underfunded, isn’t interesting enough for new research. With disgusting waiting lists as well. This is something that needs to be more addressed as well. I don’t see a lot of people in the mental health field stepping up and fighting for their patients.
mary H says
I feel that the main concern, as far as MAiD is concerned, is that there is already a severe lack of respect for the patient in the mental health system, which many of us have witnessed, therefore, we worry that ‘respect’ for patient and family will very likely be absent in dealing with any request for this final step. I most definitely feel for the patients but access to MAiD is, in my opinion, a step too far.
Justin Oxley says
Big Pharma Marketing and Malpractice expansion pack marvellous.
https://www.bigpharmagame.com/mm_expansion.html
Justin Oxley says
I thought a patent is a license to be sued, that’s why I didn’t tell anyone about my nuclear powered skateboard invention.
https://youtu.be/rc9gwPB78lk
ANON says
If any Law were drafted scrupulously, the kind of mental state would not be permitted as an assisted euthanasia case.
Drugs are not the panacea for all mental cases, diseases or health difficulties.
More has to be done for suicide prevention and mental health and wellness.
Also, educating people how to treat diseases without always resorting to pharmaceuticals, could indeed be a safer alternative and option for many.
All suffering induced by misprescribing, overprescribing and misdiagnosing, cannot be relieved by pharmaceuticals.
The certainty of imminent death and the consent of those who care and love for them, to me is not that black/white. There are indeed many shades of grey.
What are the legal responsibilities and implications of MaiD?
Who are legalizing euthanasia in many countries?
Doctors and Governments are wilfully taking the lives of the vulnerable, as slowly as possible. This is deliberately executed to avoid detection and culpability.
The doctors that assist with MAiD will not be charged and judged with a crime yet the very tools they use are harming and killing millions of innocent patients each year.
Why don’t we ever debate how pharmaceuticals and risky procedures impact people’s lives each year?
Why is it always swept under the carpet?
With MAiD, are loved ones really being assisted to pass away in a dignified and decent manner?
Dying tortured with NO DIGNITY is inhumane for the person being euthanized and many traumatized families are left to deal with witnessing the inhumane incident for their rest of their lives.
Who is playing God here?
Who are pressuring the family members of loved ones being euthanized?
Should not all family members have a say?
The Government, the state, the people who voted euthanasia, the doctors and so on can abuse their power, when it comes to MAiD.
Medical/legal community need to get together and figure out a proposal with processes/criteria and protocols that meet the notion of a right to assisted death.
Everyone should be included in that debate (not just a selected few), with all the consensus of the people. Once people have all the knowledge (covering all aspects of the topic, not just a biased view) the voices can all be counted.
How many innocent people are killed by MAiD?
Our current Law is deplorable and needs to be constantly reviewed and reassessed. We need to receive information from all sides to make intelligible choices.
If we begin legalizing euthanasia for:
1. every disease or health condition
2. any procedure that may result in debilitating health condition/disability
3. Debilitating health maladies that are induced due to misperescribing or overprescribing
4. Procedures that have posed a risk and have debilitating consequences to the patient(s)
What does this say about our health care system?
The following article below demonstrates just how the system can be abused. So many patients are being killed by euthanasia, as doctors warn it is now out of control. Also, there are reports that dozens of people with dementia or serious psychiatric issues have died under the euthanasia legislation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779624/Number-mentally-ill-patients-killed-euthanasia-Holland-trebles-year-doctors-warn-assisted-suicide-control.html
It is sadly, becoming an industry which is difficult to regulate and being used for all the wrong reasons. This worries me immensely. Once the floodgates are open, in my opinion, anyone can play God and this is when it can be very dangerous. There will indeed, be many problems with the obscurity and ambiguity as to when the trigger can be pulled. The poor person who has been severely damaged by a cascade of meds and risky procedures, cannot give informed consent to their own death!
Once euthanasia is legalized it gives those the rights to abuse their moral positions.
ANON says
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779624/Number-mentally-ill-patients-killed-euthanasia-Holland-trebles-year-doctors-warn-assisted-suicide-control.html
Rass says
The problem is short term SSRI use disabled me so severely that i have no other choice then (letting) euthanize myself