Docu-drama about schizophrenia
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:27 pm
This docu-drama on UK Channel 4, 21 April, 10pm, has had a lot of publicity
and hopefully will create a good debate about the controversies over the
treatment of mental illness - in particular schizophrenia.
The Channel 4 website has this information which encapsulates Rufus May's
views. (See also a story about Rufus May in The Independent last year
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 40381.html )
Channel 4 publicity also lumps schizophrenia in with all other conditions,
with its "1 in 4 people" figure of people who will be treated for mental
illness at some point in their lives.
The identity of the doctor whose story is being told is withheld and
programme makers are apparently not saying whether or not the doctor is
currently employed.
See also the stories from The Independent and Psychminded below the Channel
4 story - .
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsit ... ramme.html
The Programme
The film follows Ruth's unorthodox journey with Rufus as she strives to
combat the voice and regain her job.
Rufus May is a maverick psychologist. He believes there is no such thing as
schizophrenia, that medication can destroy lives and that there's nothing
wrong with hearing voices. Rufus is an authority on the subject. He was
diagnosed with acute schizophrenia aged 18.
In this powerful and thought-provoking film, BAFTA-award winning director
Leo Regan, takes a challenging look at how society deals with mental
illness, using an innovative mix of contemporaneous documentary footage and
dramatised scenes. To protect her anonymity, Ruth is played by
BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Wilson and some details have been changed.
With figures suggesting as many as one in four people suffer from mental
illness at some point in their lives, the film prompts the question, how far
can people who hear voices also continue to live a normal life?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 08941.html
A dialogue with myself
When Ruth began hearing voices, she turned to a controversial drug-free
therapy programme. Now, her story is told in a powerful TV film, says Jeremy
Laurance
Channel 4
Actress Ruth Wilson playing junior doctor Ruth for 'The Doctor Who Hears
Voices'
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Ruth is a junior doctor like any other, facing daily decisions of life and
death. More than a year ago, she became depressed and suicidal, was put on
medication and suspended from her job. What she didn't tell her employers
was that she had begun to hear voices. She thought she was going mad.
Most mental health specialists would at that point have said Ruth should be
admitted to psychiatric hospital and treated with drugs, forcibly if
necessary. Hearing voices is regarded as a key delusion that marks out the
insane from the sane. But she feared that if that happened she might never
be allowed to practise medicine again.
Instead, she consulted Rufus May, a clinical psychologist with the Bradford
District Care Trust, who has become something of a celebrity in the mental
health world for his radical approach to treatment. He agreed to treat her
privately (waiving his fee) because she was from outside the trust area. She
stopped her medication and together they began a six-month course of
therapy, which included a mock fight in the street, getting half drowned in
a stream, chatting in a tree and a visit to May's home.
Her therapy, and its conclusion, was minutely documented and has been
recreated for a Channel 4 film, The Doctor Who Hears Voices, to be shown
next week. An actress plays Ruth. The result is an extraordinary
drama-documentary with a powerful performance by Ruth Wilson, known for her
Bafta-nominated role in Jane Eyre.
The film challenges our notions of mental health and how to treat it. May
doesn't think Ruth is mentally ill and rejects the idea of treating her with
powerful antipsychotic drugs. Instead, he teaches her to talk back to the
voices in her head, with the aim of identifying and getting a grip on them
and ultimately coming to control them. The voices are abusive or
derogatory - "You are a worthless piece of shit" gives a flavour. It's scary
stuff; at one point Ruth reveals that she is convinced that a fish tank on
the ward is controlling patients' heartbeats.
Would anyone be comfortable having a doctor who suffers such delusions in
charge of their care? Or their child's? Watching the film, you have to
wonder. Ruth has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and told she will be
on drugs for the rest of her life - but Rufus May is convinced that she will
make a good and safe doctor without them.
It is a high-risk strategy, which few psychiatrists would be comfortable
pursuing. May has his doubts when Ruth goes missing for several days and he
wonders if she's committed suicide. About 1,200 people with mental problems
take their own lives each year, and another 50 kill someone else, many of
them while not taking their medication.
May is no stranger to the risks. For a decade, he has run self-help groups
for voice-hearers, where he supports a drug-free approach to treatment. He's
softly spoken, thoughtful, yet he has a cheerfulness that disarms patients
and professionals alike. (His trust has asked him to contribute a blog to
its website, recognising his popularity with mental patients.)
He is himself a "recovered schizophrenic", diagnosed at 18, treated with
drugs and told his problems would be lifelong. Having found a way back to
health, he is committed to guiding others on the same journey and has become
a leading advocate of drug-free psychiatry. At one point in the film he
urges Ruth: "You can recover. Too many people have been lost. We don't want
to lose you."
His nemesis in the film is orthodox psychiatry, represented by Trevor
Turner, a consultant at Homerton hospital in east London. He is one of few
conventional psychiatrists prepared to engage in this debate. Turner agrees
that supporting patients to manage their voices is helpful - but it is not
enough, he says. "No doctor would dream of saying, 'I am just going to treat
the voices.' If I assessed there was a risk - and in this case 'Ruth' was
talking about suicide and hearing voices and was out on the streets - I
would definitely have taken action to protect her. If there was no other
way, I would have battered down the door and taken her into hospital."
After a series of crises, Ruth finally has a breakthrough and is back on the
road to recovery. The closing scene shows her sitting in a car outside the
(disguised) hospital where she is back at work. May asks her if she is
competent as a doctor. "Yes," she says. "He [the voice] is not the problem -
it's if people find out, that would be a problem. The power balance has
shifted."
Leo Regan, the director, who spent a year shadowing May, said his aim was to
"challenge people's preconceptions about mental illness" rather than to
promote one approach over another. "I think the debate between Trevor and
Rufus raises some important questions and will provoke people to think a bit
more deeply about how we treat people who hear voices."
Today, Ruth is still well and working. May insists that she would have
fallen apart if she had lost her career. It was a high-risk strategy - some
would say foolhardy - yet it apparently succeeded.
Rufus May's presence in the mental health system is a necessary irritant, a
constant reminder that orthodox psychiatry needs to be more
consumer-focused. But one cannot help fearing for the consequences if he
pushes his approach too far.
The Doctor Who Hears Voices, Channel 4, Monday 21 April, 10pm
Story about Rufus May -
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 40381.html
===============
http://www.psychminded.co.uk/news/news2 ... ent006.htm
Underground recovery
A docu-drama about clinical psychologist Rufus May helping a woman diagnosed
with bipolar disorder without using drugs is to be broadcast on Monday.
Writing exclusively for psychminded, May explains that he had to keep his
work with the woman secret. Otherwise, such is the reliance on psychotropic
drugs, she would have been compulsory detained.
April 17, 2008
.....
It took over a year for Leo Regan to make the film, The Doctor Who Hears
Voices, about my work. I think it manages to be a documentary about mental
health that avoids the usual traps of being a freak show.
I work with adults with mental health problems and believe people are
capable of recovering from all mental health problems if they get the right
support.
I had a psychotic episode when 18 and recovered despite doctors diagnosing
me with "schizophrenia" which they said was a life-long condition and that I
would always need medication for.
With his camera in tow, Leo steadily shadowed me at both work and in my
independent role giving talks and campaigning. Leo wanted his footage to be
'real' and not contrived. He went to a lot of effort to film me when I was
worried and anxious as well as when I was confident and self-assured. Once
he even turned up at my house at 3am!
The film focuses on my relationship with Ruth [not her real name] who I
decided to try and help outside of my NHS work. Ruth was a junior doctor who
was suspended from her practice for having suicidal ideas.
Around this time she started to hear an aggressive voice telling her to kill
herself. Coincidentally, she had approached me for advice just before she
started to hear voices. She had stopped taking medication some time before.
She could not approach her doctors for help with her voice hearing because
she feared that she would lose her medical career.
I set about supporting her non-medically. It was important to give her lots
of psychological and physical techniques to cope with her sleep problems,
her voice hearing and her moods. I became the only person she could trust
with what was really going on.
Leo was very interested in her story and tried to film us working together
on these issues. But it was impossible because of her need for
confidentiality and secrecy. As she put it "you cannot be a doctor and hear
voices". So instead we began to carefully document our meetings so that we
could re-enact them with an actor.
Even documenting the work added pressure to Ruth. For example, often after
Leo had interviewed Ruth about how she was doing, I would find that she was
extremely distressed the next day. On one occasion I banned Leo from meeting
with Ruth for over a month. At that point I felt that we would have to keep
Ruth out of the film entirely. In the end Ruth and I decided the pain of the
film making was worth the gain of telling her story.
I was working totally against the grain of conventional wisdom. Most health
professionals believe that when someone starts to hear voices or get
paranoid, both of which Ruth was going through, you have to intervene with
medication. If you don't, conventional thinking argues, the person's brain
will deteriorate irreversibly. I firmly did not believe this but, at times,
supporting Ruth through her crisis as she struggled with suicidal ideas and
intense paranoia, I did question my rationale. I wondered whether my
approach was making her worse not better. I knew if she did kill herself I
could be held responsible. At the same time I saw an intelligent, dedicated
person who had been let down by a judgmental employment system, who I
believed could recover and make a valuable contribution to society as a
doctor.
Ruth had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and again told it was a
lifelong condition. I don't agree with such practices. I think the
psychiatric diagnostic model often alienates us from our own experiences and
breeds fear and helplessness.
I suggested that it might be helpful to not embrace a diagnostic
understanding of her problems. Instead, I gave her a different model;
firstly, that she could recover a good
life. Secondly, that her distressing experiences were not the product of a
faulty brain but meaningful communications. I believed that all of her
experiences including mood swings, critical thoughts, paranoia and voice
hearing were understandable reactions to difficult life events. For example,
a lot of her paranoia and voice hearing reflected the way her employers were
treating her, as if she was a liability, by suspending her and refusing to
trust in her ability to be a good doctor. I was suggesting that these
so-called 'symptoms' were actually 'messengers' about past and present
hostile environments and that it was fundamental not to blame herself and
give up.
Importantly, Ruth needed to become confident in resisting the prejudice of
her employers by lying to them about her mental health. She could not afford
to tell them she was hearing voices. This was hard for Ruth as she is an
honest person and she felt her integrity was being ripped apart. As we
worked on deeper issues I encouraged her to express her emotions and address
buried wounds in order to be released from demons of her past. At times she
slipped deeper into paranoia and it was on these occasions that both of us
had our faith tested in my approach.
The film charts Ruth's journey though these experiences and also gives us
some insight into the more conventional psychiatric approach. Psychiatrist
Trevor Turner, former vice chair of the Royal College of Psychiatry,
outlines the importance of giving people in Ruth's situation medication
whether they want it or not because "miracles do occur". If they don't want
to take medication most psychiatrists and nurses will choose to force people
to take medication against their will. In the film Trevor gives a reassuring
description of how nurses are trained to forcibly inject patients with
medication "in the most comfortable and supportive way".
I hope the film triggers a debate not just about the rights of health
professionals to hear voices but also about the rights of people in crisis
to a force-free mental health service. Every week thousands of people are
coerced into taking medication that they don't want and this frequently does
more harm than good.
Without giving away the outcome of the film, Ruth and I attempted to work on
her recovery in a force-free way that honoured her right to have a drug-free
approach. We had to do this in an underground way. This is surely wrong. It
is surely wrong that many psychiatrists do not see their patient's 'mad'
experiences as meaningful.
It is surely wrong that they do not promote optimism and a belief in
recovery. It is surely wrong that psychotropic drugs that impair functioning
are seen as the first port of call and that patients have little choice over
what goes in their bodies. It is surely wrong that many people who stop
taking their medication feel they have to lie about this to their
psychiatrists. We are supposed to live in a democracy but if you are being
treated for a mental health problem in our society you are very often living
in a totalitarian regime.
The 'real Ruth' bravely decided to speak out about these kind of injustices
by agreeing to have her story documented, hopefully the number of people
speaking out about our society's approach to mental health will continue to
grow.
* Rufus May is a clinical psychologist with Bradford District Care Trust's
assertive outreach team, and honorary research fellow with the Centre For
Community Citizenship And Mental Health at the University of Bradford.
Rufusmay.com
* The Doctor Who Hears Voices is on Monday, April 21 on Channel 4 at 10pm
See also:
Jan 16, 2008: Schizophrenia psychologist launches 'coming off' psychiatric
drugs website - Rufus May fears medication withdrawal effects are confused
with illness symptoms
Clare
and hopefully will create a good debate about the controversies over the
treatment of mental illness - in particular schizophrenia.
The Channel 4 website has this information which encapsulates Rufus May's
views. (See also a story about Rufus May in The Independent last year
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 40381.html )
Channel 4 publicity also lumps schizophrenia in with all other conditions,
with its "1 in 4 people" figure of people who will be treated for mental
illness at some point in their lives.
The identity of the doctor whose story is being told is withheld and
programme makers are apparently not saying whether or not the doctor is
currently employed.
See also the stories from The Independent and Psychminded below the Channel
4 story - .
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsit ... ramme.html
The Programme
The film follows Ruth's unorthodox journey with Rufus as she strives to
combat the voice and regain her job.
Rufus May is a maverick psychologist. He believes there is no such thing as
schizophrenia, that medication can destroy lives and that there's nothing
wrong with hearing voices. Rufus is an authority on the subject. He was
diagnosed with acute schizophrenia aged 18.
In this powerful and thought-provoking film, BAFTA-award winning director
Leo Regan, takes a challenging look at how society deals with mental
illness, using an innovative mix of contemporaneous documentary footage and
dramatised scenes. To protect her anonymity, Ruth is played by
BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Wilson and some details have been changed.
With figures suggesting as many as one in four people suffer from mental
illness at some point in their lives, the film prompts the question, how far
can people who hear voices also continue to live a normal life?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 08941.html
A dialogue with myself
When Ruth began hearing voices, she turned to a controversial drug-free
therapy programme. Now, her story is told in a powerful TV film, says Jeremy
Laurance
Channel 4
Actress Ruth Wilson playing junior doctor Ruth for 'The Doctor Who Hears
Voices'
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Ruth is a junior doctor like any other, facing daily decisions of life and
death. More than a year ago, she became depressed and suicidal, was put on
medication and suspended from her job. What she didn't tell her employers
was that she had begun to hear voices. She thought she was going mad.
Most mental health specialists would at that point have said Ruth should be
admitted to psychiatric hospital and treated with drugs, forcibly if
necessary. Hearing voices is regarded as a key delusion that marks out the
insane from the sane. But she feared that if that happened she might never
be allowed to practise medicine again.
Instead, she consulted Rufus May, a clinical psychologist with the Bradford
District Care Trust, who has become something of a celebrity in the mental
health world for his radical approach to treatment. He agreed to treat her
privately (waiving his fee) because she was from outside the trust area. She
stopped her medication and together they began a six-month course of
therapy, which included a mock fight in the street, getting half drowned in
a stream, chatting in a tree and a visit to May's home.
Her therapy, and its conclusion, was minutely documented and has been
recreated for a Channel 4 film, The Doctor Who Hears Voices, to be shown
next week. An actress plays Ruth. The result is an extraordinary
drama-documentary with a powerful performance by Ruth Wilson, known for her
Bafta-nominated role in Jane Eyre.
The film challenges our notions of mental health and how to treat it. May
doesn't think Ruth is mentally ill and rejects the idea of treating her with
powerful antipsychotic drugs. Instead, he teaches her to talk back to the
voices in her head, with the aim of identifying and getting a grip on them
and ultimately coming to control them. The voices are abusive or
derogatory - "You are a worthless piece of shit" gives a flavour. It's scary
stuff; at one point Ruth reveals that she is convinced that a fish tank on
the ward is controlling patients' heartbeats.
Would anyone be comfortable having a doctor who suffers such delusions in
charge of their care? Or their child's? Watching the film, you have to
wonder. Ruth has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and told she will be
on drugs for the rest of her life - but Rufus May is convinced that she will
make a good and safe doctor without them.
It is a high-risk strategy, which few psychiatrists would be comfortable
pursuing. May has his doubts when Ruth goes missing for several days and he
wonders if she's committed suicide. About 1,200 people with mental problems
take their own lives each year, and another 50 kill someone else, many of
them while not taking their medication.
May is no stranger to the risks. For a decade, he has run self-help groups
for voice-hearers, where he supports a drug-free approach to treatment. He's
softly spoken, thoughtful, yet he has a cheerfulness that disarms patients
and professionals alike. (His trust has asked him to contribute a blog to
its website, recognising his popularity with mental patients.)
He is himself a "recovered schizophrenic", diagnosed at 18, treated with
drugs and told his problems would be lifelong. Having found a way back to
health, he is committed to guiding others on the same journey and has become
a leading advocate of drug-free psychiatry. At one point in the film he
urges Ruth: "You can recover. Too many people have been lost. We don't want
to lose you."
His nemesis in the film is orthodox psychiatry, represented by Trevor
Turner, a consultant at Homerton hospital in east London. He is one of few
conventional psychiatrists prepared to engage in this debate. Turner agrees
that supporting patients to manage their voices is helpful - but it is not
enough, he says. "No doctor would dream of saying, 'I am just going to treat
the voices.' If I assessed there was a risk - and in this case 'Ruth' was
talking about suicide and hearing voices and was out on the streets - I
would definitely have taken action to protect her. If there was no other
way, I would have battered down the door and taken her into hospital."
After a series of crises, Ruth finally has a breakthrough and is back on the
road to recovery. The closing scene shows her sitting in a car outside the
(disguised) hospital where she is back at work. May asks her if she is
competent as a doctor. "Yes," she says. "He [the voice] is not the problem -
it's if people find out, that would be a problem. The power balance has
shifted."
Leo Regan, the director, who spent a year shadowing May, said his aim was to
"challenge people's preconceptions about mental illness" rather than to
promote one approach over another. "I think the debate between Trevor and
Rufus raises some important questions and will provoke people to think a bit
more deeply about how we treat people who hear voices."
Today, Ruth is still well and working. May insists that she would have
fallen apart if she had lost her career. It was a high-risk strategy - some
would say foolhardy - yet it apparently succeeded.
Rufus May's presence in the mental health system is a necessary irritant, a
constant reminder that orthodox psychiatry needs to be more
consumer-focused. But one cannot help fearing for the consequences if he
pushes his approach too far.
The Doctor Who Hears Voices, Channel 4, Monday 21 April, 10pm
Story about Rufus May -
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 40381.html
===============
http://www.psychminded.co.uk/news/news2 ... ent006.htm
Underground recovery
A docu-drama about clinical psychologist Rufus May helping a woman diagnosed
with bipolar disorder without using drugs is to be broadcast on Monday.
Writing exclusively for psychminded, May explains that he had to keep his
work with the woman secret. Otherwise, such is the reliance on psychotropic
drugs, she would have been compulsory detained.
April 17, 2008
.....
It took over a year for Leo Regan to make the film, The Doctor Who Hears
Voices, about my work. I think it manages to be a documentary about mental
health that avoids the usual traps of being a freak show.
I work with adults with mental health problems and believe people are
capable of recovering from all mental health problems if they get the right
support.
I had a psychotic episode when 18 and recovered despite doctors diagnosing
me with "schizophrenia" which they said was a life-long condition and that I
would always need medication for.
With his camera in tow, Leo steadily shadowed me at both work and in my
independent role giving talks and campaigning. Leo wanted his footage to be
'real' and not contrived. He went to a lot of effort to film me when I was
worried and anxious as well as when I was confident and self-assured. Once
he even turned up at my house at 3am!
The film focuses on my relationship with Ruth [not her real name] who I
decided to try and help outside of my NHS work. Ruth was a junior doctor who
was suspended from her practice for having suicidal ideas.
Around this time she started to hear an aggressive voice telling her to kill
herself. Coincidentally, she had approached me for advice just before she
started to hear voices. She had stopped taking medication some time before.
She could not approach her doctors for help with her voice hearing because
she feared that she would lose her medical career.
I set about supporting her non-medically. It was important to give her lots
of psychological and physical techniques to cope with her sleep problems,
her voice hearing and her moods. I became the only person she could trust
with what was really going on.
Leo was very interested in her story and tried to film us working together
on these issues. But it was impossible because of her need for
confidentiality and secrecy. As she put it "you cannot be a doctor and hear
voices". So instead we began to carefully document our meetings so that we
could re-enact them with an actor.
Even documenting the work added pressure to Ruth. For example, often after
Leo had interviewed Ruth about how she was doing, I would find that she was
extremely distressed the next day. On one occasion I banned Leo from meeting
with Ruth for over a month. At that point I felt that we would have to keep
Ruth out of the film entirely. In the end Ruth and I decided the pain of the
film making was worth the gain of telling her story.
I was working totally against the grain of conventional wisdom. Most health
professionals believe that when someone starts to hear voices or get
paranoid, both of which Ruth was going through, you have to intervene with
medication. If you don't, conventional thinking argues, the person's brain
will deteriorate irreversibly. I firmly did not believe this but, at times,
supporting Ruth through her crisis as she struggled with suicidal ideas and
intense paranoia, I did question my rationale. I wondered whether my
approach was making her worse not better. I knew if she did kill herself I
could be held responsible. At the same time I saw an intelligent, dedicated
person who had been let down by a judgmental employment system, who I
believed could recover and make a valuable contribution to society as a
doctor.
Ruth had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and again told it was a
lifelong condition. I don't agree with such practices. I think the
psychiatric diagnostic model often alienates us from our own experiences and
breeds fear and helplessness.
I suggested that it might be helpful to not embrace a diagnostic
understanding of her problems. Instead, I gave her a different model;
firstly, that she could recover a good
life. Secondly, that her distressing experiences were not the product of a
faulty brain but meaningful communications. I believed that all of her
experiences including mood swings, critical thoughts, paranoia and voice
hearing were understandable reactions to difficult life events. For example,
a lot of her paranoia and voice hearing reflected the way her employers were
treating her, as if she was a liability, by suspending her and refusing to
trust in her ability to be a good doctor. I was suggesting that these
so-called 'symptoms' were actually 'messengers' about past and present
hostile environments and that it was fundamental not to blame herself and
give up.
Importantly, Ruth needed to become confident in resisting the prejudice of
her employers by lying to them about her mental health. She could not afford
to tell them she was hearing voices. This was hard for Ruth as she is an
honest person and she felt her integrity was being ripped apart. As we
worked on deeper issues I encouraged her to express her emotions and address
buried wounds in order to be released from demons of her past. At times she
slipped deeper into paranoia and it was on these occasions that both of us
had our faith tested in my approach.
The film charts Ruth's journey though these experiences and also gives us
some insight into the more conventional psychiatric approach. Psychiatrist
Trevor Turner, former vice chair of the Royal College of Psychiatry,
outlines the importance of giving people in Ruth's situation medication
whether they want it or not because "miracles do occur". If they don't want
to take medication most psychiatrists and nurses will choose to force people
to take medication against their will. In the film Trevor gives a reassuring
description of how nurses are trained to forcibly inject patients with
medication "in the most comfortable and supportive way".
I hope the film triggers a debate not just about the rights of health
professionals to hear voices but also about the rights of people in crisis
to a force-free mental health service. Every week thousands of people are
coerced into taking medication that they don't want and this frequently does
more harm than good.
Without giving away the outcome of the film, Ruth and I attempted to work on
her recovery in a force-free way that honoured her right to have a drug-free
approach. We had to do this in an underground way. This is surely wrong. It
is surely wrong that many psychiatrists do not see their patient's 'mad'
experiences as meaningful.
It is surely wrong that they do not promote optimism and a belief in
recovery. It is surely wrong that psychotropic drugs that impair functioning
are seen as the first port of call and that patients have little choice over
what goes in their bodies. It is surely wrong that many people who stop
taking their medication feel they have to lie about this to their
psychiatrists. We are supposed to live in a democracy but if you are being
treated for a mental health problem in our society you are very often living
in a totalitarian regime.
The 'real Ruth' bravely decided to speak out about these kind of injustices
by agreeing to have her story documented, hopefully the number of people
speaking out about our society's approach to mental health will continue to
grow.
* Rufus May is a clinical psychologist with Bradford District Care Trust's
assertive outreach team, and honorary research fellow with the Centre For
Community Citizenship And Mental Health at the University of Bradford.
Rufusmay.com
* The Doctor Who Hears Voices is on Monday, April 21 on Channel 4 at 10pm
See also:
Jan 16, 2008: Schizophrenia psychologist launches 'coming off' psychiatric
drugs website - Rufus May fears medication withdrawal effects are confused
with illness symptoms
Clare