From OCD to Polypharmacy Hell: Safa Asgari's Fight for Mental Health Truth

Psychiatry’s darkest patterns know no borders — and Safa Asgari’s harrowing experience in Iran proves it. What began as a simple OCD diagnosis spiraled into a chemical nightmare: ten psychiatric drugs, each prescribed to treat side effects misread as new disorders.

After severe reactions to Prozac, doctors piled on labels — bipolar, ADHD, schizoaffective — instead of acknowledging harm. When Safa questioned the treatment, his resistance was pathologized. Refuse the meds? They threatened electroshock.

His story reveals psychiatry’s global gaslighting — where drug-induced suffering is spun into lifelong illness, and withdrawal is denied by the very system that caused it.