The Pill That Steals Lives Katinka Newman's Terrifying Journey to find the Truth about Antidepressants

Katinka Blackford Newman took one antidepressant — and woke up in a nightmare. Within hours, she was hallucinating, suicidal, and later diagnosed with "psychotic depression" and bipolar disorder. But the real cause? A violent reaction to the very medication meant to help her.

Instead of recognizing the drug-induced akathisia and psychosis, doctors doubled down — piling on more meds and ignoring her pleas. For a year, she was a shell of herself, unable to care for her kids, her life slipping away under the weight of prescriptions.

The twist? When her insurance ran out and the drugs were forcibly stopped, she woke up — completely sane. The diagnosis? Wrong. The drugs? Nearly fatal.

Her story exposes a terrifying truth: psychiatry often mislabels drug reactions as mental illness — and then treats the side effects with more drugs. How many lives are being lost to treatments that were never needed in the first place? Need more truth? Check out www.antidepressantrisks.org.