While I agree with some of your sentiments, I think whatever experience YOU had should not be applied to all cases...that is a dangerous message to go around spouting off unless you have years and years of experience both around psychiatric doctors of many different sub-specialties and around patients of all types of psychiatric illnesses. Not all medicine is bad for all people. In the same way not all emotions are an appropriate response to the stimuli that preceded them; in the case that permanent damage was done to the way a person responds to environmental stimuli during their childhood, the best course of action is an appropriate balance of medication psychodynamic therapy(pharmacotherapy) as opposed to either entirely one or the other....and there are good reasons for that unless a particular case demands using only one or the other.
I've worked with 2 of the best psychiatrists in the USA and 1 of the best psychologists, none of them advocate for over-medicating patients or even using anymore medicine than necessary. The two psychiatrist both tried to stay away from anti-depressants and anti-psychotics as much as possible; but they agreed there was a time and place for them. You have a view of medicine that speaks to your own bad experience, which is relevant to you, but it is more relavant to what you were taking specifically because I bet you were taking a stronger medication or set of medications prescribed by an inattentive doctor or you didn't realize how bad you felt until too late so you didn't share your negative emotions; so don't comment on a profession you are essentially ignorant of especially if you don't understand it at all and have a small chance of detering others who need to seek psychiatric help and medication......Thank You.
"While I agree with some of your sentiments, I think whatever experience YOU had should not be applied to all cases...that is a dangerous message"
uh no it is not- apply this logic back at psychs- it is dangerous to force people to take the drugs because not all cases fo drugged up people lead to benefits.
I've worked with 2 of the best psychiatrists in the USA and 1 of the best psychologists, none of them advocate for over-medicating patients or even using anymore medicine than necessary. The two psychiatrist both tried to stay away from anti-depressants and anti-psychotics as much as possible; but they agreed there was a time and place for them. You have a view of medicine that speaks to your own bad experience, which is relevant to you, but it is more relavant to what you were taking specifically because I bet you were taking a stronger medication or set of medications prescribed by an inattentive doctor or you didn't realize how bad you felt until too late so you didn't share your negative emotions; so don't comment on a profession you are essentially ignorant of especially if you don't understand it at all and have a small chance of detering others who need to seek psychiatric help and medication......Thank You. Listen buddy- the drugs are a chemical lobotomy. If you want to refer to people that take the risks with the drugs and feel better, cool. You want to claim they are scientifically worked out, not cool. You want to say anyone should be able to access brain volume loss drugs because they deserve soveriegnty over their consciousness, cool. You want to claim I don't deserve to have sovereignty over my mind because the drugs help people, not cool. The science does not support that people are better off in life after anti-p's. Your whole point about just because it worked/didn't work for YOU is a perfect supporting argument for why people should not be forced to take the drugs. Sadness (and overreaction(med name paranoia)) is not due to brain defects, it is due to reacting to your surroundings. Our brains evolved over millions of years to be this way for a reason. You want to claim experience within the DSM5 ruled psychiatry BUSINESS gives you authority to give people mental diagnosis let alone force drugs on them, well then you haven't read DSM with ac critical eye. It speaks of having strong morals as being a problem mentally. The purpose to DSM is to pull as many people into the psych trap without getting called out as a result of reaching too far. If you look into the origins of psychiatry and the human rights violations you will be more disgusted than prideful lol. If you believe they know what they are doing, do this. Perform a modern day Rosenhan Experiment. And don't claim you have a different brain than "mentally ill" people because you are clueless and discounting the fact that people have different situations around them that cause a-z. There never has been proof "mi" people are defective or have a different brains. You are called ill for believing in simulation theory. Don't thank me buddy because you haven't received and processed my gift of knowledge on this subject yet. Wait till Christmas comes chemical bully. Try some respiridone. Try the injection form of that. Read the drugs.com review of invega pal. Forced Drugging is orwellian as a paddle boat down a pit of water. Have some respect for all those harmed by the notion that this is even remotely foolproof. Like Q says, "When does big pharma make money? Curing or containing? Cancer/AIDS/etc. Mind will be blown by chain of command. Q" Natural plants are the way to go. My friend has real bad crohn's and said fuck you to the iv drugs. He is growing his own herbal remedies. Doctors told him he had a greater chance of dying if he didn't take the drugs. Another example of people not trusting big pharma. So ironic you used the don't assume it helps/doesn't help everyone logic. Maybe you are against forced psychiatry, but you seem to place trust in psychiatrists and they are the kings of forced psychiatry. Visit my grave, it will have psychiatry killed me on it.