A Sad Morality Tale About Side-Effects
Salon.com published a heart wrenching story yesterday about two parents' struggles to help their autistic son. The tragedy is that things grew worse once psychiatrists became involved. Medications were pushed on those parents that hurt their child, but instead of supporting the parents for wisely discontinuing the medication, the psychiatrists scolded the parents.
Unbeknownst to the psychiatrists, the neuroleptics they had prescribed were actually making the young man worse because he wasn't diagnosed properly. He wasn't schizophrenic. He wasn't psychotic. Thanks to the original antidepressants and further neuroleptics, he now had autistic catatonia. Why didn't they catch that? First of all, they were arrogant, learned men and women who set themselves above the parents. Their diagnosis - and the diagnosis of their networked peers - was not to be questioned. Second, they were uneducated and uninformed. Third, they make money by prescribing the very drugs that were hurting the young man. This triple combination made them highly certified fools.
Always. Always get a second opinion. That is advice I wish I had taken before ruining my mind years ago by trusting untrustworthy psychiatrists.
The solution to this type of problem is easy. Psychiatrists should not get financial rewards from pharmaceutical companies. How are we to trust the entire psychiatric industry if they are on the take?
I'm down today, but instead of popping a pill I will go draw. I've been itching to get to that all week. If you respond negatively to psychotropics, antidepressants, neuroleptics, and their ilk you may want to consider tapering off under the guidance of a cognitive behavior therapist or psychiatrist who is more interested in helping you be happy and successful than forcing you to receive a harmful cookie-cutter treatment. If your psychiatrist blindly adheres to medication only solutions for your issues, you may want to look for a new psychiatrist.
Unbeknownst to the psychiatrists, the neuroleptics they had prescribed were actually making the young man worse because he wasn't diagnosed properly. He wasn't schizophrenic. He wasn't psychotic. Thanks to the original antidepressants and further neuroleptics, he now had autistic catatonia. Why didn't they catch that? First of all, they were arrogant, learned men and women who set themselves above the parents. Their diagnosis - and the diagnosis of their networked peers - was not to be questioned. Second, they were uneducated and uninformed. Third, they make money by prescribing the very drugs that were hurting the young man. This triple combination made them highly certified fools.
Always. Always get a second opinion. That is advice I wish I had taken before ruining my mind years ago by trusting untrustworthy psychiatrists.
The solution to this type of problem is easy. Psychiatrists should not get financial rewards from pharmaceutical companies. How are we to trust the entire psychiatric industry if they are on the take?
I'm down today, but instead of popping a pill I will go draw. I've been itching to get to that all week. If you respond negatively to psychotropics, antidepressants, neuroleptics, and their ilk you may want to consider tapering off under the guidance of a cognitive behavior therapist or psychiatrist who is more interested in helping you be happy and successful than forcing you to receive a harmful cookie-cutter treatment. If your psychiatrist blindly adheres to medication only solutions for your issues, you may want to look for a new psychiatrist.
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Thank the maker I found a doctor that was comfortable with not being completely sure about everything. He was the best doctors I've ever seen.
I once had a small operation done on my back and told the clinic to not use synthetic bandages because I was allergic to them. They sewed me up and put the plastic bandages on me anyway. Soon after the operation I was having an allergic reaction and needed to be rebandaged. One would normally chalk that up to a breakdown in communication except for the sloppy work the doctor did. He was in a rush, didn't even bother talking to me, then left the clinic. The stitches opened within days and I needed to be resewn. He was simply arrogant and dismissed my "piddly" little concerns. I never had surgery at that clinic again.
Doctors and psychiatrists can be wonderful sages or arrogant fools - just like anybody else. So don't be intimidated by their degrees and education. Get that second opinion. All you need is one bad side-effect and you can be ruined for life.
~Douglas
Not all of course, but those type are in the majority.
The main problem is one of dualism, no one can be sure that the mind resides in the brain, but psychiatrists are conditioned to think that it does.
The drugs will affect your brain, which of course is connected to the mind at least, but it does this by harming your brain. The body then regulates itself and you are left effectively suffering the symptoms they diagnosed you with.
I would never willingly see a psychiatrist, and I would warn about the effects of withdrawing from their various drugs and the effects they have when you are on them.
I have thought about this for a bit, and really the psychiatric profession is very much akin to the Spanish Inquisition, just check out the methods, it is nearly identical.
I have been checking out the CCHR and would agree that they are a front to Scientology, but their goals are similar to mine. I would like to see an end to any psychiatric powers of incarceration and forced medication. I think the CCHR wants to go a little further, but hey from my perspective that would just be payback.
If a person wants to wander off to the local shrink and ask for some drug for themselves, sure why not, in fact why not open up the whole kit and caboodle, and leave doctors in the role of advisers.
It has to be if you commit a crime, then you get dealt with by the legal system. If you don't commit a crime then a psychiatrist cannot be used to enforce medication and treatment. In fact I would go so far as to say if you do commit a crime, then you may get incarcerated for that crime but still drugs cannot be enforced.
The drugs are one of control with horrendous side affects. I have worked with doctors in setting up their IT systems, and you are right their main money earner is the link with the Pharmaceutical companies, they want that tied in with networks only their peers access. I have also done work on advertising for Pharmaceutical companies and I assure you their marketing folks are generally on the ball, they know how to market inside their own global organizations and through the various chains to the eventual consumer.
It was interesting to see the nonsense and the infighting on the various internal forums the doctors have, they are not geniuses and to pass your brain over to one would be a grave mistake. I suppose you have worked that out by now.
Well best wishes for the future, and life is not about pain, it is about finding a place and a lifestyle you are happy with. I just need to get these psychiatric inquisitors off my back now :)