These drugs have risks just like all drugs do but seroquel has saved my life any number of times. I think they are overprescribed but if you have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder these drugs can be lifesavers.
Just because a drug is natural means fuck all. Datura is natural and it is dangerous to say the least yet LSD is fully synthetic and is one of the safest drugs around. I hate it when people throw that stupid argument out there.
Bottom line is some conditions need medications. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression are 3 of them.
I agree completely. It bothers me to see so many people who don't believe that mental illness is real (read below) or who refuse to accept their diagnosis in light of so much evidence for it.
Seroquel was my savior along with oxcarbazepine (Trileptal). These are the first two medications which work perfectly for me. I know I'm lucky. I know that a lot of people with bipolar disorder won't accept their illness or don't ever find meds that work for them, so I am very happy that I function perfectly with these medications. I'm doing well in college, finishing up my first degree, and I am so damned content with life now.
I never realized how much of a hold my mental illness had on my life until I realized I definitely have bipolar and I have to take my meds and go to therapy. I have no idea why so many people here just want to brush off their mental illness and rather think that they are totally fine. They are denying themselves of a full, good, productive life and I really feel for them and my pity goes out to them.
Mental illness isn't just "all in your head". There is a biological component. The link between all of the mental illnesses out there presently eludes science and medicine, but we are on the verge of new breakthrough discoveries every day. I'm just glad that I'm not one of those people who thinks psych meds are bullshit: They've saved my life. I'm glad to see that I'm not alone, paranoid android.
I was diagnosed with bipolar. lol. Have any of you guys ever read what freud or jung say about mental illness?
Saying you have a mental illness, without a blood test for it, based on behaviours, without a preposed mechanism is very plainly unscientific. (And originally based on the notion of hysteria in women no less - from the greeks).
My opinion is that bipolar is a natural healing mechanism for unconcious crisis, as proposed by both jung and freud. Halting said process prevents true healing from ever taking place - suppressing the symptoms until your completely unaware of you inner processes.
I dont take the medicines. I havent had an episode for years - and i never will again...
Sorry, dude, but if you are bipolar, you
will have more episodes of mania, depression, and mixed states, and you will be hospitalized, and you won't be happier for it. You would be wise to start taking medications. Sure, there are no blood or brain tests to diagnose mental illness, but mental illness exists and it is out there and I have it. I've seen other people who have it. There is no denying it. If you are denying it you are living in your own little world which shall soon crumble when you least expect it. You are doing harm to yourself by refusing treatment.
BTW, Freud and Jung have contributed major key ideas to psychology and psychiatry, but they are by no means "in the now". Their contributions and ideas are archaic and have psychology is so much different today, it has evolved and changed so much and we know so much more know. I recommend that you stop trying to rationalize and intellectualize yourself out of your situation. Please seek therapy and proper medical treatment before something terrible happens to you.
I stopped my meds when I was 19. It wasn't until I was 26 that I had another manic psychotic episode, was hospitalized, and I realized that I definitely am bipolar type I and I have to take my meds to stay mentally healthy. You will find out the hard way, too, mark my words. I don't want anyone to have to suffer through what I did. Learn from my mistakes: Take your meds!
Drael: The last time I had a manic episode with full psychosis I dived into a lake that I could have drowned in thinking that I was Jesus Christ and I had to baptize myself, that nothing could harm me, that I was immortal. It was a miracle that I survived, and you call this a natural healing mechanism? I'm lucky I didn't get tetanus from walking around in the woods and in the sewers all day and I'm lucky I found my way to a hospital to get proper treatment