well, I would love to see a detailed report by Al Jazeera detailing the psychosis of the Koran on humans.
Before anyone lets their doc put them on these crappy drugs, they need to look into physical reasons for mental problems-pernicious anemia or thyroid issues for example.
If depression is due to a physical ailment like that, all the anti-psychotic drugs in the world will not help it, IMO.
They will only worsen the initial problem and create even more through side effects.
My elderly aunt had Alzheimer’s and was psychotic. She was given anti-psychotic drugs. It changed her to a calm person, she didn’t know anything as a psychotic and that didn’t change with the drugs, she just became a much more peaceful person.
The drugs may be over prescribed but they have their place.
Michael Savage has observed that a large number of liberals take anti-psychotic drugs.
I would say this may be valid, based on the mis-statements and over-the-top lies, and behavior, of many Democratic politicians. Look at the rantings of, for example, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Lee of Texas etc. etc. What else could explain this?
You’re believing the crap churned out by Al Jazeera? The article conflates anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic, ADD, and anti-depressants into the inaccurate catch-all, “anti-psychotic” and then claims we’re all on anti-psychotics.
Abilify can give young teens suicidal thoughts yet people still get prescribed with them. Adderall is the new ritalin.Adderall is taken by college kids like speed. It all started with the stop smoking anxiety pill and prozac.
It is sad.
When the Obamacare "database" is all "set up", think of all the people that will probably be denied their 2nd Amendment rights, just by "checking" the Obamacare database.
IMHO, Obamacare wasn't about "healthcare".
It WAS all about the "mandatory" database.
Think for a moment....why would the Marxists want your DOCTOR to ask you if you own any firearms??
It's a "two-fer" for the Marxists. You are in the database as owning a firearm, and it can then be checked against your "medications" to see if you can "legally" own one or broke Federal law which would then disqualify you for life.
Don't think that the "background check" is soon going to include the "Obamacare" database??
Keep it in mind the next time you think about asking the doc for something to make you feel "less depressed" and "sleep better".
I’m a practicing shrink. This article has the typical, quasi-fashionable anti-pharma, anti-psychiatry agenda behind it, and is slanted to serve that need. It is nonsense.
The truth is, there have been two stunning breakthroughs in psychopharmacology since the days of Thorazine and Elavil, the likes of which were all we had when I started practcing. Prozac, and all the second generation anti-depressants that followed, was the first one. Clozaril, and all the subsequent “atypical anti-psychotics” that followed, was the second. The latter category of meds have profound benefits for a wide range of disorders far beyond merely Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
For those of us who are actually charged with the responsibility of relieving the suffering and incapacitation of mental illnesses - not just sitting around writing about it - these medicines have been a godsend, and overwhelmingly grateful patients agree.
Shrinks and drug companies, that's who.
I saw this whole Frontline a few years ago. Here’s a small portion of it on YouTube. It was a scary episode.
One poor kid had been on multiple drugs since he was four because he was hyper. As a teen he developed a permanent, uncontrollable head roll, but his family still had him on multiple meds.
The Wholesale Drugging of Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkwp-tDCWg
Here is the first video of the complete episode—it shows the boy with the headroll. The parents act like they are victims, and maybe they are, but they could have told the teachers early on to go pound sand. I know it’s hard when the system is working on you each day, but if the kids don’t have their parents, the system will gladly step in. For this boy it had life altering consequences.
Frontline -The Medicated Child 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48KnwKGV0Pw
These drugs are an absolute pestilence. The psychiatric knowledge base used to peddle them is the Same obnoxious, occultist based political garbage that filled the concentration camps in 1930’s Germany.
Freud has already been amply exposed as a complete fraud, so today Carl Jung is its Guru.
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=246&CFID=25198082&CFTOKEN=77368745
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/carl-jung-a-psychic-pyramid-seller-1355037.html
The industry is continually assuring the public that the drugs treat a biological condition underlying mental illness. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
There is no such thing as a measurable chemical imbalance in any human brain until After the drugs have created it. There is no genetic predisposition in Any person determining/controlling their thoughts or behaviors.
The drug makers bought 57 crooked Docs in the early 90s who formulated the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, a State Mandated Medication Menu, which has spread to every other State in the Union. Here’s the History in brief. Be patient, because the documents load slowly.
http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf
Johnson & Johnson were the ringleaders. The State of Texas is suing them for over a Billion Dollars in State Medicaid Fraud for their anitpsychotic Risperdal.
http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/03/lawsuit-over-jj-risperdal-marketing-can-proceed/
The drugs are in fact, a time release chemical lobotomy.
http://psychrights.org/states/alaska/CaseXX/3AN-08-493PS/JacksonOnNLtoxicity.pdf
They’re sold under the ruse of suicide prevention.
http://jannel.se/suicide.psychiatricdrugs.pdf
The psychiatric drug hustle, over the last Century, has Caused a 1000% Increase in the number of people needing permanent or semi-permanent institutionalization.
http://psychrights.org/articles/ehpppsychdrugepidemic(whitaker).pdf
Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/drugging-kids-with-no-verifiable-disease-012.html
We are Lobotomizing our Children with this filth for diseases which don’t even exist. It has to stop.
If some scumbag, Govt or Private, tells you your kid has to be medicated with any Psych Drug for ADHD, your very next stop is a lawyer.
i’m guessing that the large increase in children being classified as disabled relates to the subsequent eligibility for SSI payments ?
And, you seldom need companion drugs to control extrapyramidal symptoms any more either.
It may well be the case that so-called "anti-psychotics" are prescribed promiscuously by certain psychiatrists, but even if, they are less harmlful than their predeccessors.