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Professor David Veale 2016-10-08 Person 1 5 0

I took a young family member to see Dr Veale as he was suffering from extreme OCD (among other things) and David Veale seemed to be the local expert. Bad move! Even after an hour-long private conversation when my relative explained his history, Veale did not pick up on the fact that he was suffering from acute withdrawal symptoms from stopping Venflaxine cold turkey three months earlier! Instead of making a proper diagnosis, he sent him off to expensive and traumatic, in his mental state, sessions of group therapy (at not inconsiderable expense) at the Priory. When this failed, as it was guaranteed to do, he put my relative on Sertraline which increased the symptoms and Veale's solution to that, when we notified him of this a couple of years later in a hurried conversation, was to up the dose further! After trying this, he completely freaked out and had to hurriedly return to his original dose and Veale was just not available for telephone advice even though we had paid his fees. My relative was on this medication for three years until we realized exactly why he was feeling so dreadful and stopped taking anything some five months ago. He is still suffering from very unpleasant withdrawal but at least takes some comfort from the fact that he now knows what has caused his fragile mental state and every little improvement gives us added hope that soon he will be free of these horrible chemicals scrambling his brain, but he can never replace those missing years of his youth and is understandably very angry. He is now in recovery from the prescription medication which CAUSED rather than solved the problem. We found this site very useful: http://survivingantidepressants.org/ Dr Veale is a supercilious, cold person - another prime example of the quackery of psychiatry.