Wrongly, my son has been forced to take psychotropic drugs, called medications, for 25 years by psychiatry and mental health courts. In 1991, he was put in the mental health system at the beginning of the "Decade of the Brain" or at the time the "medical model of psychiatry" came into full force. Time has proven these so-called medications cause more harm than help. After 15 years of being force drugged, my son had his first "fixed delusion." Twenty years after being forced to take these drugs, he started hearing voices. He is probably brain damaged now by these drugs. Psychiatrists, or others doctors that prescribe these drugs, do not inform patients or their families that the drugs cause dependence and to stop them abruptly causes a person to go into rebound withdrawal. Withdrawal is a very mind-altered state of being. And yet doctors will stop, change, add to, take away from the prescribed drug or the dosage without considering the withdrawal the person experiences. Also, there are over 100 medical illnesses that manifest in so-called psychiatric symptoms for which psychotropic medications should not be given. My son tested borderline, as a young man, for one of these, hypoglycemia. Diabetes is another. He now has Type II Diabetes. Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP) is another. He continues to have physical symptoms of this illness, yet nothing is done for medical illnesses. The rise in statistics of persons with "mental illness" of all ages has been exponential over the past 25 years. It is an epidemic now. The reason behind that rise is psychotropic medications. Prisons have become the long-term mental hospitals in our society. There is no science behind "mental illness." Psychiatry only treats symptoms because there are no scientific causes for mental illness. The yearly multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry funds everything, even the universities that teach current psychiatric methodologies, which amounts to pill pushing. The patient spends 15-30 minutes with a psychiatrist, is labeled with one or more mental diagnosis, is provided samples of medications, and they are hooked. My son is in the worst state he has ever been in. He is now 47 years old. He needs to be allowed to titrate down and off these drugs under the care of psychiatric and medical doctors. He needs to have a safe place to live while doing this. Please stop forcing my son to take prescribed psychotropic medications. They are killing him.