Posted on 08/14/2007 7:07:09 AM PDT by SkyPilot
"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."
You're reading the words of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.
"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it."
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Side effects of Paxil
Most common
Weight loss or gain (most often gain rather than loss)
Headache
Nausea
Dry mouth
Increased sweating
Drowsiness/Somnolence or Insomnia
Increased or decreased appetite
Constipation or diarrhea
Inability to achieve orgasm
Partial or complete loss of libido (sexual desire)
Erectile dysfunction
Tremor
Vertigo/Dizziness/Motion sickness
In other words, Paxil turns you into this:
Isn't it easier to just post a pic? :O)
“Why are so many Americans so gullible, and trusting of physicians???”
More likely the person just wants a pill rather than engage in psychological counseling. And perhaps the insurance companies encourage it. I don’t know how the cost of pills stacks up against the cost of counseling.
My own personal amateur theory is that these pills probably unleash a host of unresolved feelings at one time. Depression isn’t always crying and moaning. Sometimes it is just a feeling of deadness or numbness, that one ought to care but can’t. Things that ought to make one happy, don’t. Things that ought to make one mad also don’t. If an antidepressant pill suddenly makes feelings more intense, then I can see how past incidents might accumulate to the point of explosion. I don’t excuse it but I can see how it might happen that years of resentments and anger coalesce to tempt one to drastic action.
I also firmly believe in demonic possession. It happens more than we like to think and it is sad that modern medicine discounts that possibility. God ought to be consulted as often as medical doctors.
I believe it is the meds.
Read this
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/casualties.htm
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Columbine/Columbine-Bollyn.html
They give out these drugs like candy and it is a shame.
They have an increase now in suicides of the elderly, seems they were depressed and docs gave them anti-depressants.
These drug companies are getting away with 2 much. They have people kill themselves in clinical studies.
These drugs do not work for everyone.
Everytime we hear of a mass murder, we hear, what is wrong. Well, check the drugs they were taking.
This is an excellent article.
I have studied these drugs for almost 4 years.
Have written Congress, but so many of these companies lobby Congress.
They give these pills for almost anything, hot flashes, quitting smoking, depression,sleep problems, you name it and it is wrong, oh so very wrong.
Merck made 4 billion last year on Effexor alone. This is only one drug.
We have to wake up Congress , but you know what they already know.
I'm going to develop a prescription cure for this phenomenon.
LOL. Are you Steven Wright?
Ding, ding, ding! I think you got it!
Paul Westerberg - Psychopharmacology
Feelin’ better than yesterday, and worse than tomorrow
It’s depressing for me to say I been dressing like Greta Garbo
Oh psychopharmacology works wonders, wonder will it work on me?
They been searching for a cat who matches that perscription
Sign up for a chat, they said we’ll cure your addiction
Well psychopharmacology works wonders, wonder will it work on
me?
Yeah psycho...
I need something to calm me down
I need something to keep me focused
Narcaleptic, paranoid, and borderline hopeless
ADD, PCP, F-U-*-*-E-D that’s me.
I’m feelin’ better than yesterday, and I’m havin’ none of that
They say all the world’s a stage, it’s more like a medicine
cabinet.
Psychopharamcology works wonders, wonder will it work
Psychopharmacology works wonders, wonder will it work
Psychopharmacology works wonders, wonder will it work on me?
(Psycho)
On me...
I have long thought that the reason Al Gore put on so much weight is because he was on some kind of Anti-depressant.
Most common Weight loss or gain (most often gain rather than loss)
Headache
Nausea
Dry mouth
Increased sweating
Drowsiness/Somnolence or Insomnia
Increased or decreased appetite
Constipation or diarrhea
Inability to achieve orgasm
Partial or complete loss of libido (sexual desire)
Erectile dysfunction
Tremor
Vertigo/Dizziness/Motion sickness
Remnants of Bicameralism.
We took her to every doctor we could, and it destroyed us financially.
Through all of it, I could tell the doctors were just grasping at straws in the dark.
The went from pill to pill, in every conceivable mix.
I quickly realized the "experts" didn't have a clue about the human mind, or the human soul.
I have always said: (and so did my uncle before he was saved): This is a SIN problem; not a Psychological problem; all these drugs do is change how people think (and suppress their true selves), it makes a war in them, and usually drives them crazy: All they really need is Jesus, not some drug/(psychology)! I really abhor the modern psychology industry!
Good post!
The medical establishment is a department of the state justice institution including schools, incarceration facilities, military barracks, courts, mental and physiological hospitals and clinics.
“The Pharmaceutical companies and physcians who give these drugs to people should be locked up. Psychologist would rather give you a pill than talk to you.”
Schizophrenia is very difficult to detect in its early stages. Hallucinations and voices are a definitive symptom. My sister was misdiagnosed for almost 30 years by psychologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists. She was finally (correctly) diagnosed as a disorganized (non-paranoid) schizophrenic by Mayo Clinic.
Mayo was able to sort out her true symptoms from ones caused by improper medications. Mayo did this all in ONE DAY using a a team of pychiatrists, psychologists, and neurologists. I cried when my mom showed me the ONE SENTENCE diagnosis on the letter from May. The doctors at Mayo were very caring and dedicated—and still are. (Thank God for good health insurance.....LOL)
My sister is now receiving the proper medications. For the first time since the schizophrenia began, she has a decent quality of life, is happy, and (with medications)has learned to not listen so much to the voices.
Yes, there are bad psychologists/psychiatrists who don’t really care about helping a patient. But I believe most do want to help their patients. I also thank God every day for the pharmaceutical companies!!! They aren’t perfect, but they’re an industry which has indisputably contributed to the health and well-being of ordinary people.
I am so sorry to hear that. May she RIP.
Not a bad idea. But first you'll need to name the disease. How about...
Hyper-Reliance on Pharmaceuticals Syndrome. (HRPS) We'll call it "HARPS" for short.
Then we need studies, (government funded of course) to study the HARPS syndrome and public awareness campaigns to raise public awareness.
Once we get enough public awareness, we'll pressure the licensing boards to require annual evaluations of psychiatists to identify those suffering from HARPS.
Of course if they seek treatment, buying your cure, they'll be allowed to continue to practice.
The licensing board of course will need additional funding to offset their added expense involved in the evaluations. So we set up funding that is tied to the number of psychiatrists diagnosed with HARPS.
The increased funding will motivate the licensing boards to find and diagnose any psychiatrist that might be remotely affected by HARPS.
Sorry, I should have added: Bicameralism in psychology, not government.
Can you share some methods for boosting serotonin? I recently was told by a family doctor to take Paxil, but I declined. Cure is worse than the disease.
Big Pharma also should be included in the justice institution of the state.
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