End Suicides, Homicides, Mass Shootings, AKATHISIA
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Akathisia is an extremely distressing neurological disorder that causes severe agitation, an inability to remain still and an overwhelming sense of terror. The symptoms are so horrific that it can make people instantly suicidal, and it is primarily caused by prescribed medications. The most common offenders are antipsychotics, antidepressants, anti-nausea medications, and antibiotics; however, it can be caused by many others. It most commonly occurs when starting, stopping, or changing the dose of a medication, and it is also very common in benzodiazepine withdrawal (Ativan, Xanax, Valium, etc.).
Akathisia has been linked to homicide and suicide for many decades – yet many doctors today have never heard of it.
In 1978 - This feeling of inner agitation and muscle tension causes the patient to pace constantly and may precipitate violence. Clinicians should be aware of this possible akathitic reaction to these drugs.
Today - Akathisia can lead to treatment nonadherence, a poor prognosis, and an increased risk of suicide if not well managed. Unfortunately, it is often not recognized or misdiagnosed. A more deliberate attempt to identify it using clinical judgment, patient medication history, and assessment tools is encouraged
Who are we and why should you listen to us?
Although the majority of people get akathisia from antipsychotics and SSRIs, many people with no history of mental illness and no history of taking a psychiatric medication who got akathisia from one dose of Reglan…. While it is often assumed that perpetrators of mass shootings were mentally ill, many people with no history of mental illness who got akathisia from one dose a non-psychiatric medication would attest that the following cases were likely due to undiagnosed akathisia.
If this were to change immediately, it could save many lives. Whether you can donate or not, please help end the many needless suicides and homicides by reading this and sharing it with your family, your friends, and your doctors.
Dr. Joseph Glenmullen explains akathisia and why it causes suicide in this short video:
Due to its tortuous symptoms, akathisia alone is very difficult to survive; however, many people also lose their family and friends, jobs, homes, and everything they felt they had to live for. In addition, even people who had no history of mental illness who got akathisia from one dose of a non-psychiatric medication such as antibiotic are being involuntarily hospitalized and given medications that make it much worse. If they refuse to take them, some are even restrained and force-drugged with these medications against their will. These things are happening because akathisia is being misdiagnosed as a new or worsening mental illness. Sadly, the combination of having akathisia, being traumatized by misdiagnosis, and losing everything they felt they had to live for has led to the suicides of many people.
The Akathisia Alliance was formed by people who’ve survived it and have banded together to help prevent it from happening to others and to help end the many needless suicides and homicides it causes.
As anyone who’s had akathisia would tell you, it’s like getting hit over the head with a ton of bricks. You may not know what it’s called until you do the research, but it’s virtually impossible not to know you have it. It then becomes a matter of life or death to find a doctor who will diagnose it. This extremely common scenario is illustrated in the following post from a support group member:
Mark Mahomes
He did not survive.
Before discussing the suicides and homicides major role misdiagnosis and mistreatment is currently playing in akathisia-related suicides and homicides, please note the following poll results Misdiagnosis and mistreatment by doctors is currently playing a major role in akathisia-related suicides and homicides. Specific cases will be discussed below.
Why listen to us?
Some whose lives have been ruined by one dose of IV Reglan in an ER. why should anyone listen to us? Akathisia is virtually impossible to understand unless you’ve had it. – we thought suicides were due to depression – we thought mass shootings were - …. we’ve all felt agitated to the point of violence… we’ve all felt suicidal, many of us have attempted at least once.
The following are stories from an akathisia support group of people who were perfect strangers when they found each other and banded together to keep each other alive. The people who don't make it likely battled longer because they had support.
TO READ ABOUT SUICIDES AND HOMICIDES IN THE NEWS, SKIP TO NEXT SECTION
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TRIGGER WARNING! Please DO NOT read the following stories if you currently have akathisia. You can skip to the videos below.
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Forced-drugging
Jason
Jason had akathisia due to SSRI withdrawal that was misdiagnosed as psychosis, and he was prescribed an antipsychotic. Knowing this would likely make his akathisia worse, he refused to take it. He was then force-medicated.
Jason: Being force-medicated with Abilify for four weeks and sectioned if I don't follow through. They say the burning and pain is psychotic. If anything bad happens to me, can you please explain how bad this is on my Facebook wall?
Mike: Antipsychotics are the worst possible class of drugs to give to a person with this condition! lt's like giving peanut butter to treat somebody with a peanut allergy!
David: I am so upset for you - I am shaking so bad I can hardly type this - I wish you were closer man, you could come stay with my parents and I. The mental health system is completely broken - how can it allow this kind of treatment to iatrogenic patients?! Abilify is the drug that caused my akathisia and tardive dyskinesia. Why can't they understand it will cause you further harm, both mentally and physically? How close will they watch you... can you pretend to take the drug and dispose of it somehow? You're a warrior - sending lots of positive energy, strength and love your way!
Jason: I tried spitting them out, but the mental health nurse sat with me in a condescending way and said take it now.
Jason was force-medicated with the antipsychotic for two weeks. His akathisia became much worse, and he took his life.
Friends we've lost -
The following actual posts were taken from an akathisia support group. They may be disturbing, but we hope you will read each of them to better understand why we so desperately need your help. Please keep in mind that each of these people knew they had akathisia, but their doctor would not diagnose it, so their family did not believe them. So, in a sense, their families were also victims of misdiagnosis. They lost a loved one, and their only mistake was having blind faith that a doctor knew best.
Marcy
Marcy: Akathisia made my life torture. The doctor didn't mention anything about side effects. I've had to endure hell due to misdiagnosis. I was tied up, injected and electro-shocked against my will. I was thrown into isolation because I screamed in pain and fear and they didn't believe me. Meanwhile, I've lost my home, fiance, work, family, and friends. And, I'm still fighting.
Marcy: I tried to speak to my family today, but they won't listen. They said they can't hear any more about my "invented diseases," that I'm making it up and I need to listen to my doctors. They all just blocked me and won't even pick up the phone. They are very dangerous to me now as they can easily lock me away and tell the psychiatrists I'm making this up. I'm terrified.
Nicole: Marcy, are you okay? You haven't posted today.
Marcy: No I am not okay. I have to move out of my house tomorrow and can't live alone. I'm too disabled. There is no help.
Nicole: Marcy hasn't had any activity on her phone for 24 hours. She hasn't answered my messages. This is getting scary. She was in a terrible place. She moved out today...all alone. I'm very worried about her. Please, has anyone heard anything?
Nicole: Marcy's flatmate just told me she tried to take her life. She's in the hospital, but has been declared brain-dead and her family will let her go soon. I'm so angry at the doctors. She lost her family because of them and couldn't go through the torment alone. There was not a single person to hold her hand. If she'd only had the support and understanding and BELIEF!!!
Linda: My family doesn't believe me either. I'm scared I'm going to do this same thing because of a lack of support.
Amanda: Her family, like mine, abandoned her. In this torture, rejection by the people you trusted most is too much to bear.
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Cathy
Cathy: I have severe agitation, panic, and terror that's getting worse and worse. I'm like a basket case pacing and screaming for hours. I can't sleep because it's complete terror. The mental health team isn't recognizing it as akathisia. They think it's severe anxiety. I don't know what to do. I've been on the phone with the crisis team all morning. They spoke to the consultant and he's not changing my meds. I've taken loads of diazepam and it's not touching it. Seems like it's building in intensity every day. My dad is telling me to shut up and sit down. I can't live like this. I truly can't. I can't get through this hour. It's extreme.
Support group administrator: It pains me to announce that Cathy passed away yesterday. Her family continued to not give her the validation she deserved and so desperately needed. I have several screenshots of messages and comments where she said they wouldn't watch any videos, wouldn't research, and told her to just kill herself because she was hurting them with her "delusions."
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Lisa
Support group administrator: Christina passed away last week. The doctors told her family it was just anxiety, so they didn't believe her and she was on her own. She tried so hard to make it.
Lisa: Oh my God...my family doesn't believe me either. Why is it so hard for people to believe this neurological damage is from the drugs? I don't get it!
Greg: I think it's because they came from the age when people believed that doctors were always right. Plus, there weren't computers or internet back then, so knowledge only came from those they trusted the most, their doctors.
Lisa: This is an unbelievable nightmare. I tell my mom every day that the drugs messed me up and she says I was messed up before that. She refuses to read anything about this. Why does she refuse? I don't understand. Oh my God...when I die nobody will know what happened to me and why. Jesus...this is unbelievably bad. I can't believe this happened to me. I can't. This is so bad.
Greg: Yes, Lisa, somebody will know what happened to you if you die. We will tell them. We are your support. We all know what you're experiencing, so please don't fight this alone. That goes for anyone else on here. By supporting each other, we will all get through this and prove everyone wrong.
Support group administrator (one month later): Our sweet Lisa passed away yesterday, for those of you who didn't know.
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To better illustrate the words of Dr. Glenmullen, these are some of the many friends we've lost to akathisia-induced suicide: 
WHAT IF?
AKATHISIA AND HOMICIDE
Review of literature
A link between akathisia and violence was established in 1978. The following is a timeline to present day.
1978 - From Violence as a manifestation of akathisia (Keckich):
"A clinical note is provided on a case of a 29-year-old male whose treatment with two antidepressant drugs, imipramine and haloperidol led to akathisia and a precipitated violent act...He paced for several hours after each dose of his medication. His anxiety culminated in an attempt to kill his dog.
Although neuroleptic drugs are effective, they do have the side effect of producing akathisia, a subjective desire in the patient to be in constant motion. This feeling of inner agitation and muscle tension causes the patient to pace constantly and may precipitate violence. Clinicians should be aware of this possible akathitic reaction to these drugs."
1990 – Akathisia and violence (Crowner, et al.)
2003 - Neuroleptic-induced akathisia and violence: a review (Leong, et al.)
2011 - Antidepressant-induced akathisia-related homicides associated with diminishing mutations in metabolizing genes of the CYP450 family (Lucire, Crotty).
None of the ten subjects described had any history of mental illness; none had been violent before.
Subject 1 - 35-year-old female who got akathisia from nortriptyline and stabbed her daughter:
When I took nortriptyline, I immediately wanted to kill myself, talked myself out of it. I’d never had thoughts like that before. I walked outside a lot. I didn’t sleep for two nights, dreamt, then slept maybe three hours, felt awful. I dreamt that my daughter had dark teeth and I saw a black halo around her head, a spear hanging over it. I felt like a zombie. I believed I had to help my daughter, that a bad spirit possessed her. I picked up a knife and stabbed her and woke up. I was not myself. I was looking on from the outside, controlled by dark forces. She said: “Mum, what are you doing here?” I realized what I’d done. I asked my husband to kill me. He called the police. I felt better in the police cells without the pills, but the pills started again and thoughts of killing myself returned.
Subject 2 - 18-year-old male developed akathisia four days after he ran out of fluoxetine and killed his father:
I felt restless, then became aggressive, paranoid, violent, could not sleep, walked around thinking constantly about suicide. Tried to kill myself twice, tying a sheet around my neck, cutting my wrist, became depressed, and cried. I ran out of fluoxetine and felt like a ticking time bomb. I had no thoughts for consequences. Fearless, I challenged strangers to fight, punched out windows, threw a toolbox through windscreen and sped, running over street signs, crashed my truck; stood at the top of a bridge wanting to jump. I wrote messages on the shattered windscreen of my vehicle. Wanting to die, I walked a long way to a friend’s house where I found a pistol, walked eight miles to my father’s house, talked to him for a few minutes. Felt very small, as if watching myself from above. I remember my dad, then the sound of a gun. No argument, no provocation. Don’t remember pulling it out of my backpack or pointing it. Couldn’t understand what had happened. What had I done? I wanted to shoot myself. I confessed immediately.
Subject 3 - 35-year-old male got akathisia from paroxetine and killed his ex-wife:
I couldn’t leave my house, had trouble going to work. Anxiety was like nothing I’ve ever had before. Feelings were strange, peculiar, anger unjustified. I felt bad about it. I tried to punch her boyfriend through the car window. Police said I tried to run him down. I thought death was imminent, had an impulse to commit a violent suicide, hoping someone would kill me. I was irritable with family, clients. I had racing thoughts, like a video on fast-forward. Weird, violent dreams, I drove around a lot, sometimes in her street, visiting three or four people in a day, unable to settle.
Drove to the park. I did not expect to find them there. My son ran up to me. His mother said, “He’s not going with a crazy person like you.” Last thing I remember was getting the knife from my toolbox, walking in slow motion. A guy cracked a wet towel at me. I reconstructed what happened from what I was told. I got it wrong, for example, where I stabbed her. I knew I had done it because I had blood all over me.
Today
Please keep in mind that agitation, restlessness, and even constant pacing are hallmark symptoms of akathisia, as documented in many papers since 1978. (citations, see bottom)
or - When reading the following accounts, please keep in mind that, “Akathisia is characterized by strong feelings of inner restlessness that manifest as excessive walking or pacing and difficulty remaining still.” (UNHAPPY FEET CITATION)
2021 - Gunman kills woman on Metro train in Hollywood; suspect remains at large
“Witnesses told police officers that the gunman had been pacing the train in an agitated manner as it moved between stations and got into an argument with a woman seated near him in the car, the release said.
After the train pulled into the station, the man shot the woman and then “exited the train onto Hollywood Boulevard in an unknown direction,” police said.” (cite)
Phillip (football player) – pacing 
Ian Harman – Check Trello 
(statement from expert witness about olanzapine withdrawal not known to cause akathisia)
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From https://www.clinicalschizophrenia.net/articles/a-brief-overview-of-iatrogenic-akathisia.pdf “Sometimes the intensity is severe enough for running, agitated dancing or rocking (12)”
Patient 2: A 43-year-old woman – on the 5th day after injection of 12.5 mg of fluphenazine enanthate began agitated pacing or dancing, aggressive and self-destructive outbursts.
Current VIOLENT events and akathisia - Adam Lanza – dancing Get quote from Screening Sandy Hook and quote from paper above about dancing. He was taking fanapt, which was hidden until …. find article
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AKATHISIA AND SUICIDE
1983 - Taken from (get formatting) Suicide Associated with Akathisia and Depot Fluphenazine Treatment (Shear, Francis, Weiden, 1983)
“Agitated,” “Terrified,” and/or “Pacing”
glenmullen
Del Shannon - Del had been prescribed Prozac. His wife stated he then "turned into somebody who was agitated, pacing, had trembling hands, insomnia, and couldn't function." Then he shot himself in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.
David Foster Wallace - Although he did not have an official diagnosis of akathisia, author David Foster Wallace describes the difference between suicide due to akathisia and suicide due to depression in his book, "Infinite Jest" 12:
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’ can understand the jump. Not really. You’ d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."
According to his widow, Karen Green, Wallace had been taking the antidepressant Nardil (phenelzine) for 20 years at the time this was written in 1996. He stopped taking it in 2007, as advised by his doctor, and quickly became very unstable. She recalls that “He was scared out of his mind” prior to his suicide in 2008.13
Robin Williams (email son)
Those people being restrained and force-drugged with antipsychotics…. Jonny Bates, Glenmullen quote
Who are we? - we research to save our lives, using open access journals, not google,
This is what doctors are doing to us….
As stated by Chester Bennington of Linkin Park who took his life, “Because you can’t see it, doesn’t
meant it isn’t there.”
MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN SUPPORT GROUPS TODAY WHOSE DOCTORS DID NOT RECOGNIZE AKATHISIA OR REFUSED TO DIAGNOSE IT. WE FIGHT EVERY DAY TO KEEP EACH OTHER ALIVE, BUT IT OFTEN ISN’T ENOUGH...
MISTREATMENT -
People who got akathisia from one dose of Reglan – self harm, hitting themselves.
John Patrick Walter – (benzo CT in jail story) - Walter, who had not been formally charged with a crime. He'd been taken into custody after getting into a fight with an acquaintance and couldn't afford to pay his bond. CT from Klonopin taken as prescribed - He would be screaming or banging on the walls, and they'd tell him to knock it off and calm down. And when he wouldn't, they'd strap him into the restraint chair for several hours or pepper-spray him or tase him. Then, on the 15th, John was removed from that cell and brought to a holding cell in the booking area with a large, see-through window, so that everyone walking through the booking area for the next five days could see him at all times. while he was in there, he didn't sleep, he didn't eat, he drank very little water, and for the vast majority of the time, he was completely naked.
His medical condition was obvious and apparent for everyone to see, and he was growing weaker, suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration. He was in a mental horror movie during this time. - at times, he was rolling on the floor and yelling. At other times, he was shaking and probably seizing. And in addition to everything else he was going through, he had serious physical injuries that appear to have been self-inflicted — not because he was in a cogent state of mind trying to hurt himself, but because he was in this state of terrifying withdrawal psychosis.
"He would be banging and kicking on the walls and doors and trying to escape whatever was haunting him. And so he had visibly broken bones, at least as described by certain corrections officers. His toes, for example, were bruised and swollen. One of the defendants, Sarah Lightcap, said that new bruises would show up on his body every day, including a potentially broken bone on his foot and bruises on his hip. And in the autopsy report, they found at least nine broken ribs that couldn't be explained by doing CPR on him.
"This went on for days on end, and as he got worse and worse and worse, many corrections officers were extremely concerned about his deteriorating mental and physical health and thought he should be taken to the hospital — thought that his medical providers weren't doing enough for him. This went up the chain of command to sergeants, lieutenants, the commander of the jail, the undersheriff and all the way up to the longtime sheriff, James Beicker. These people would go to the corporate medical staff, but they weren't doing anything. Everyone was passing the buck to the medical providers, even though they knew the medical providers weren't doing their job, not effectively treating this person. No one was getting on the phone and calling 911.
"And don't get me started on the medical providers. They had the power from the get-go to prevent this medical crisis by either continuing John on his prescription or starting him on a cross-tolerant replacement benzodiazepine — and if they felt, for whatever reason, that they needed to discontinue the medication, they could have put him on a medically effective or safe tapering regimen. They knew what they were doing when they cut him off his medications — or if they didn't, it's a level of incompetence that would be unheard off. But the staff cut him off his medications and watched him descend into an extremely dire state of benzodiazepine withdrawal in which he was manifestly experiencing life-threatening symptoms — and they didn't arrange for hospital transport or do anything to reverse the withdrawal process. There's an off-site doctor who's one of the defendants in the case; I don't believe he ever showed up at the jail. But at one point, a nurse called him to describe John's condition, and the doctor's response on the phone was that they were doing everything they needed to do for his withdrawal.
On the morning of April 20 — Easter Sunday — John was lying naked on the floor, twitching, shaking and convulsing. But even though multiple corrections officers and a nurse saw him on that final day, no one called 911 or arranged for him to be transported to the nearest hospital. In a report, one officer wrote that 'I could visibly see Inmate Walter laying underneath the sink.... He was laying on his right side with his hands shaking above his chest.' And later in the day, he observed that John was 'laying underneath the sink shaking as he normally does.' He was lying on the ground in the fetal position, shaking and jerking and twitching, but no one did anything. Then, on the evening of April 20, he was found dead in his cell.
https://www.westword.com/news/atrocity-the-agonizing-unnecessary-18-day-jail-death-of-john-patrick-walter-8688441
EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
RANDOM STUFF TO INSERT SOMEWHERE
Jonny Bates story - Problems of communication make akathisia hard to
diagnose. Some of the pacing, bizarre movements, impusive actions, aggressive or self-abusive behaviors may be
mistakenly attributed to the patient’s disorder, and doses of
the potentially causal medication may be increased, which
may worsen the condition
Akathisia: A Side Effect to be Remembered – (have pdf
CITATIONS FOR BOTTOM -
About pacing
1989 - Fluoxetine-induced akathisia: clinical and theoretical implications (J F Lipinski Jr 1 , G Mallya, P Zimmerman, H G Pope Jr)
The typical fluoxetine-induced symptoms of restlessness, constant pacing, purposeless movements of the feet and legs, and marked anxiety were indistinguishable from those of neuroleptic-induced akathisia.
1997 - “A case of depression manifesting incessant pacing and wandering following discontinuation of antipsychotic drugs due to neuroleptic malignant syndrome: a possible involvement of withdrawal akathisia” (H Watanabe 1 , T Terao)
1999 - Benzodiazepines for neuroleptic‐induced acute akathisia
“People may constantly pace up and down in an attempt to relieve the sense of unrest...In severe cases, patients constantly pace up and down in an attempt to relieve the sense of unrest.”
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GOOD - KEEP THIS END SECTION
THE ANSWER - EDUCATION
...This is partly because doctors and other clinicians have historically not been educated about akathisia in medical school and partly because the pharmaceutical companies have covered up the many suicides in their drug trials.
Until all clinicians learn to recognize akathisia, it will continue to cause homicides, mass shootings, and countless suicides. Because it is so difficult to describe and understand, those of us who have experienced it are the most qualified to educate. The following was posted by a support group member that better explains this:
"Akathisia is unfathomable and indescribable, and there are truly no sufficient words in any language to adequately and completely describe it. The extreme TERROR and TORMENT is beyond anything that the human body and mind were made to endure. I think of humans in two categories - those who have experienced akathisia and those who haven’t. Those who haven’t experienced it have no idea that such hell exists." ~ Julia Gilbertson Grant
Please watch this short video in which Dr. Andrew Cutler further supports the fact that only people who've had akathisia can fully understand it and, therefore, are far better equipped to educate than those who haven't.
WHO ARE WE?
The Akathisia Alliance for Education members include doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, biochemists, college professors, and many others who understand akathisia because we have had it. Prior to akathisia, we had no idea this amount of suffering was possible, and now that we have experienced it for ourselves, we desperately want to help prevent it from happening to others.
OUR WORK
Please take into consideration the following comments taken from social media when deciding if you want to help us continue our work:
"The Akathisia Alliance is doing an incredible job. Saving lives. Worth remembering that these are volunteers, unpaid. Respect."
"If it weren’t for the Akathisia Alliance, I would either still be locked up somewhere and tortured with medications, or I would no longer be alive, and my family would be devastated."
"Your work is saving lives. Because of you, I am still alive, too. I get tears in my eyes thinking about it."
"If it was not in part for the Akathisia Alliance, I would not even be here."
"The Akathisia Alliance has been a life-saver for me. I had no idea what was wrong with me until I stumbled onto their site."
"I want to say thank you for that Family and Friends page. It really helped my partner understand what I was going through. His attitude toward me changed after seeing it and he has been a lot more supportive of me since. Stopped telling me to think positive all the time and was able to just be with me. Helped a lot."
"If it wasn’t for the Akathisia Alliance and other harmed patient groups, who would know about akathisia? It’s the killer psychiatry won’t talk about."
"Where would we be without the Akathisia Alliance and this life-saving, charitable work?"
"Thank you, Akathisia Alliance, for doing the vital work psychiatrists should have been doing to raise awareness of akathisia."
"For support with this torturous condition, we are thankful to the Akathisia Alliance for doing what doctors should have done decades ago."
"Look at the body of work done by people who are not doctors. Look at the Akathisia Alliance, Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, Surviving Antidepressants, and Life After CT. How many lives have they saved, just those four?"
"Respect should be afforded to the Akathisia Alliance for doing the job of Psychiatry to reduce misdiagnoses and save lives."
"As a psych RN, I have found published research lags well behind the work done by the Akathisia Alliance and others."
CARDS "Before I showed them the card, they wanted to give me Haldol (antipsychotic). After I showed them the card, I was able to choose what I wanted to take."
"The akathisia alliance card may have saved my life. I highly recommend getting a card to carry with you at all times."
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"I want to say thank you for that Family and Friends page. It really helped my partner understand what I was going through. His attitude toward me changed after seeing it and he has been a lot more supportive of me since. Stopped telling me to think positive all the time and was able to just be with me. Helped a lot."
"My family keeps telling me to go back to work. They have no idea how bad it is inside my mind. I can't get through to them how bad this is because I cant describe how I'm feeling. I can't do this much longer.."
"There is a very good video on the Akathisia Alliance website, on ‘for friends and family’ page if you think they would watch it"
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"I would say [akathisia] was the worst thing I've ever seen... by far." Mikhaila Peterson
"There's an amazing organization called 'Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research' that's doing some fantastic work to try and make people more aware of this condition." Beverley Thomson
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