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diamondTearz: When Good brains Go Bad- The first psychotic break

  • diamondTearz · 2 years ago
    Ak- actually- all the pharm companies do is recommends their drugs. I would like to think that after all the years I devoted to learning this stuff I would make my own decisions. I don't even look at drugs until a patient has a diagnosis. From there we select from the options out there. From there we know the side-effects profile of the medications and we make a treatment decision based on what the patient would be best able to tolerate.
  • diamondTearz · 2 years ago
    Ok- I'm going to waste my energy and argue with you about the DSMIV that you glimpsed at on the internet and the countless studies that have demonstrated the biochemical deficiencies and abnormalities in my mentally ill patients. You're going into an argument with someone whose beliefs you know not the first thing about,about something that I have no idea how much you know about from a soapbox.
    And you quoted an internist...next can you quote a dermatologist about heart disease please? And while we're at it why don't we unlock the ward and tell the man that is actively hallucinating and in a living hell that we're not going to give him medications or the woman so depressed that she can't get out of bed and has tried to kill herself three times that we don't prescribe medications. And why are you assuming that we don't approach patient treatment from a biopsychosocial treatment model that involves therapy, education on coping strategies, evaluation of the elements of the patient's environment? We're not talking about f-kin ADHD or social anxiety disorder or anxiety here- I'm talking about shattered lives and grossly psychotic people who kill people and cut them up because their play station told them to do it. I work on an inpatient ward- not in some suburban high school telling kids life is going to be ok. There's a big difference between a child that can't sit still in a classroom and a man who has a car accident and his personality changes and now he has become uncontrollably violent and barely recognizes his family. Reread my post- I didn't make a single statement about giving someone a drug and here comes the damn anti-drug brigade! For a split second I thought we were actually engaging in a productive discussion.

    Please spare me the bullshit!! I'm done here.
  • Caterina · 2 years ago
    Thank you so much! It's like God sent me o your site. I have been prescribed useless medicaments and now I throw them away!
    And I'll never have my brain scanned, thank you from the deep of my heart!
  • J in Florida · 1 year ago
    AK,

    i had NEVER ever ever ever taken any type of psychiatric drug in my life.....

    when one day i had an episode of MANIA (including delusions of grandeur, extreme religiosity, hyperactivity, goal-directed behavior.. followed by the most intense anxiety imaginable).

    I was given LITHIUM, a psychiatric drug (also found on your handy periodic table).

    I got BETTER.


    By the way, have you EVER ever ever ever...

    heard of a case of BIPOLAR, SCHIZOPHRENIA, BORDERLINE, ETC...

    CURED by ... what was it you were saying could help these people?

    i forget.

    talk therapy? diet? less television? TRUE these things help...

    but you're making all of us who have ACTUAL EXPERIENCE of
    mental illness LAUGH.....

    because, frankly, you don't know what the f*ck you're talking about.

    :)

    and this WACKY idea you have that mental illness is not real, that it's
    some type of cultural construction promulgated by i suppose
    capitalist devils (or ?) oh yes profiteering doctors and drug companies...

    why don't you go back to area 51 and make people believe the u.s.
    army is hiding the truth about aliens...

    i am an artist, a liberal, very much college educated, and all that...

    and i'm still gonna tell ya, "AK," your hippie nonsense is really starting to piss people off.


    ONE MORE THING THAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND:


    your typical MEDICAL CONDITION....

    is OBSERVABLE by a third party.

    mental illness really isn't.

    this is one thing that makes the SCIENCE of the mind VERY DIFFICULT.

    my psychiatrist, also a professor in his field, who both prescribes
    my lithium and does talk therapy with me said when i met him:

    "the science of the mind is in its INFANCY."


    lastly, AK, i do realize that you have good intentions.
  • AK · 1 year ago
    What's the problem here:

    my psychiatrist, also a professor in his field, who both prescribes
    my lithium and does talk therapy with me said when i met him:

    “the science of the mind is in its INFANCY.”


    So if the science of the mind is in its infancy then why the hell are you accepting drugs from people who haven't a clue abotu what they're doing? That statement is an oxy moron - if they dont know what they're doing because the science of the mind is not known about then why are you trusting their judgement?

    Do you really think he wants to help you or make money off you? Why dont you ask yourself why most school shootings have had people on some kind of mix of anti-psychotic drugs?
  • AK · 1 year ago
    How about other psychiatric treament called ECT?

    Check it out:

    1. The patient is injected with an anesthetic to block out pain and a muscle relaxant to shut down muscular activity and prevent spinal fractures.

    2. Electrodes are placed on the temples bilaterally (from one side of the brain to the other) or unilaterally (front to back on one side of the brain).

    3. A rubber gag is placed in the mouth to keep teeth from breaking or patients from biting their tongues.

    4. Between 180 and 480 volts of electricity are sent searing through the brain.

    5. To meet the brain’s demand for oxygen, blood flow to the brain can increase as much as 400%. Blood pressure can increase 200%. Under normal conditions, the brain uses a blood-brain barrier to keep itself healthy against harmful toxins and foreign substances. With electroshock, harmful substances “leak” from blood vessels into the brain tissue, causing swelling. Nerve cells die. Cellular activity is altered. The physiology of the brain is altered.

    6. The results are memory loss, confusion, loss of space and time orientation and even death.

    7. Most patients are given a total of 6 to 12 shocks, one a day, three times a week.

    Ask the foremost psychiatrists and they have no explanation to justify why or how their “treatment” works. It is literally as scientific as sticking one’s head in a light socket. Do it often enough and you will become disoriented, confused, lose your memory or even die. Same result as ECT—but it will cost you a lot less.
  • diamondTearz · 1 year ago
    Please see my post above.