Medication is certainly helpful though not essential when a person is having a psychotic episode. It is not essential – I and several others have had psychotic episodes which we navigated without anti psychotics. However on the whole I agree they are helpful in short term treatment. However, at the moment, in the U.K. and US, treatment of people who have one or more psychotic experience consists SOLELY of anti psychotic medication, usually prescribed for life. Do you disagree? Is that statement inaccurate in your view?

Any talking therapy or peer support they receive they usually have to find themselves. I have several friends and loved ones who have been sectioned – they were not offered any talking therapy or peer support groups. That is a woeful and incredible situation, and there is nothing ‘anti-psychiatrist’ in pointing it out.

Have you seen the evidence from studies of what long term usage of antipsychotics do to people’s brains and general health? No, because there aren’t any. British psychiatry has only just admitted that long term use of anti depressants is bad for you. I await the studies to show whether long term use of anti psychotics is bad for you. Let’s not forget that the main rule of doctors should not be ‘defend the prestige of your profession from criticisms’ but do no harm.