Summary:
This week we talk to James Moore about the difficulties users face when they want to stop taking psychoactive drugs. James encourages and supports conversations between users, mental health professionals and policy-makers around this issue.
Find more about James Moore here: https://www.change.org/p/make-pharmaceutical-firms-help-users-who-want-to-stop-taking-anxiety-depression-drugs
Sign James’ petition here: www.jfmoore.co.uk
James Moore on BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sp58d
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In this episode you will learn:
Quotes:
“I took a tablet which actually intensified my anxiety… it just masked the areas in my life that I wanted to change.”
“In the U.S.A. 13% of the adult population are taking anti-depressants” **according to the American Medical Association**
“Your anxiety is there to tell you, you need to take a fundamentally hard look on your life and make a significant change.”
“People want the responsibility to be fixed to be given to someone else.”
“We’ve medicalized distress. We’ve taken the trauma of lives and said that it’s a medical problem.”
“It’s meditation, not medication.”
“The answers to a lot of these problems are within you, not from something external.”