@Crook I get the feeling your huge Ego has compromised your ability to think logically.
Well than you should be able to tell me where I am wrong with good arguments instead of insulting me. I do admit that I do at times lose my ability to think logically because I have bipolar disorder type I. Thanks for pointing that out.
Much to the dismal of former psychiatrists who'd often rather feed me neuroleptics, I have ways to do reality checks and constantly question myself due to recurring delusional (manic) episodes. While I am currently in the upper spectrum of affective states I am quite sure I am neither acutely psychotic nor severely hypomanic and maintain my ability to think logically. Please point out where exactly that ability seems to be compromised to you.
Dosis facit venenum. Dosis facit venenum. Dosis facit venenum. Almost all recreational drugs can be considered poison. A lot more people have died off opiates or committing suicide during a psychotic episode than off neuroleptic drugs given as a therapeutical measure. I have a feeling you guys do not appreciate how serious these illnesses are. If you were wrongfully diagnosed with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia that is a shame and you should not have been treated with neuroleptics.
How is psychiatry a pseudo-science though? Please explain. Are you saying mental illness does not exist? If that is your opinion, fine. I have a different take on the subject. I am starting to get the feeling nobody talking shit about neuroleptics here has ever seen a severely schizophrenic person - That is not meant to be an insult, but I am actually wondering if you have. Have you? How did the person find relief?
Does my experience with mental illness, psychiatry and neuroleptics count for nothing in your eyes? Is your point of view the only one that you can tolerate to exist?
This is another point of view which is perfectly valid in it's own frame of reference. (What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital) It does not make modern psychiatry's take on the issue wrong though. Different explanations and ways to handle a phenomenom like mental illness can actually co-exist.
Its probably the single most dangerous pharmaceutical still on the market. You are clearly ill informed. Stop advocating what you don't understand.
Please define dangerous. It is not really an expression used to describe pharmaceuticals without further explanation. It's a pity you feel unable to get your point across without insulting me.
Haldol takes a fit healthy person and paralyses them.
Why in god's name would you give neuroleptics to a healthy person?
It's used to treat illness.
Don't forget that low dose haloperidol was also the drug of choice for torturing Soviet Dissendants.
What is your point? Healthy people should not be given antipsychotics. Low-dose PCP has been used the same way, yet a lot of people on this forum cherish it. Opiates are often used for suicide, yet they are also important for pain management.
You are arguing against a substance usefulness on the basis of it's non-therapeutical application. It makes no sense whatsoever to look at them as anything but therapeutical drugs. I could torture you with a dildo (and probably would if you were with me now), but are dildos useless or
evil for that reason?
Being strapped to a bed and injected it with drugs that cause akatisia is one of the worst forms of agony a person can experience. I would never disagree with that. I have suffered akatisia many times due to antipsychotic doses that were unreasonably high (while it can indeed occur dose-independently) and have seen two of my best friends as well as countless patientss uffer that fate. As I have stated several times, there is a lot wrong with classical psychiatry and antipsychotics are generally prescribed too often and at doses much too high.
I'm pretty sure the sudden surge of attacks against my person are based on fears of having to admit that not everything you assumed about psychiatry is necessarily correct and I can understand that since you feel wronged by it. I've stepped into the same trap many times. It will not get you anywhere whatsoever though in terms of gaining an differentiated understanding of the complex topic that is mental illness and the options for treating it with both their advantages and disadvantages.
You should really step back for a second and ask yourself why you feel the need to attack me. Admittedly, I presented my point quite aggressively, but that can not be the only reason for you to straight up insult me, right?
answered many questions in my mind.
