Friends, community of comrades in suffering!
I have spoken repeatedly about my efforts to attain justice for all of us; about my efforts to spread awareness of our problem, to gather as much support as we can from every corner of the world; about my efforts to bring attention to, prevent, remedy, and discipline all the misconduct and wrongdoing plaguing psychiatry to which we have been the chief front and center victims of; about efforts to find safer antipsychotics (which will take a long time, and the psychiatrists who have the expertise to help do not have the willingness to help, have not contributed much anything to and won't contribute much anything to). These efforts are ongoing and I will not abandon them ever.
However, I do have other words of hope. This regards the matter probably of chief interest to us all: an effective treatment (of any kind), and even better, a cure.
In spite of the way society mistreats us and thus, does not take seriously (or even endorses and approves of) our suffering; in spite of the complete lack of interest of psychiatry or medicine in our plight and finding a solution; in spite of all of these things which have seemingly relegated us to the backwaters of history; in spite of we being arguably the most marginalized and abandoned people on the earth (no other people on the earth receive so little attention and help for their problems); in spite of how psychiatrists have destroyed our lives, all our joy, in spite of how they belittle us and would devalue us and assassinate our reputations, I have seen the silver lining and the light at the end of the tunnel.
That silver lining and light at the end of the tunnel will come once a true treatment of any efficacy whatsoever, and even a cure, is found (Of course, not counting the discontinuation of the offending medication and the waiting upon the cruel Lottery of Father Time who is in fact kind to not a single one of us, even those who luckily "win" that lottery and recover within 0-6 months--this is not considered a treatment or a cure, at least, definitely not for the purposes of the discussion I am about to have here and the proposals I am about to share).
I realized that our suffering is not meaningless. I realized that our specific problem is not esoteric, peripheral, minor or a footnote, etc. It was through my speculations on the aspects of our problems, certain curious aspects of our problem that I came to realize this.
If and when a treatment and a cure is invented for us, it will lead humanity into a new and better age. We will be healed and surely, because of the implications of the miracle medicine that is necessary to heal us, life will possibly be better than it has ever been before--a just reward for our suffering. We can't be stingy, however, because life may also be better than it has ever been before for others, including those who have not suffered what we have suffered, including those who may not have suffered at all in anything, including good and bad, poor and rich alike, and, of course, including people who suffer terribly but from problems different from ours.
We already know no known psychiatric drug helps us. We already know no known medicine in the entirety of human history, man-made or natural, can help us. We have already noticed a very strange phenomenon, which is not a mere curiosity but a scientific marvel, which should have scientists everywhere shouting from the rooftops. Many of us, as far as I know (and please share your data on this), suffer from such a curious problem that to my knowledge has never before existed prior to the coming of people like us who have suffered antipsychotic-induced depression and sexual dysfunction.
That problem is not only the complete lack of joy, enjoyment in anything, pleasure, etc. but also, a complete shutoff, a complete desensitivity, to all known psychotropic substances (moderators, please allow this discussion, because it is in good faith, towards a medical cure for our problem, as well as in good faith, towards a larger discussion of the advancement of medicine for the entirety of humanity--and it also includes psychotropics which are becoming increasingly legal and scientifically acknowledged to have therapeutic benefit).
This includes coffee, alcohol, cannabis and many other moderate to much stronger (to the most powerful known) psychotropic substances.
A loss of sensitivity to any of these by themselves, much less most or all of them together, is completely unheard of in all of science and human history. I've tried to search on this subject and it inevitably leads to no results. No doctors or scientists have ever heard of these kinds of problems. This total lost of sensitivity to any and all of these psychotropics is pretty much held to be impossible.
What I am trying to tell you is that the road to a treatment and a cure for our problem will open the gates for all of humanity to advance to a new, better age. It will be a fantastic step forward in human evolution, like such successive advancements as: the invention of fire, the invention of language, the neolithic revolution, the invention of writing, the advent of microscience, the industrial revolution, the digital and atomic age, etc.
Therefore, because this will surely interest other people, including those in fantastic positions of power, with fantastic financial, scientific and medical resources at their disposal, and this will grab the interest of Silicon Valley billionaires looking for the fountain of youth, etc. we also have hope that a treatment and a cure to our problem of antipsychotic, and particularly, paliperidone/Invega induced depression and sexual dysfunction will be funded, in spite of psychiatry and medicine, otherwise, taking no interest in us whatsoever (and even relishing our powerlessness and suffering).
A treatment of any kind, and much better, a cure, for us, will not be peripheral or esoteric. It will be front and center. It will require a medication or a substance which is not only stronger, but orders of magnitude better, more advanced, a completely new category of medicine and healing, in comparison to all of known science and medicine and medical substances.
Imagine, for instance, that the most powerful psychotropic substance on the earth cannot affect us, so profound is the inhibition/damage of our neurochemicals (chiefly thought to be dopamine, but perhaps involving serotonin, too). When we find a psychotropic substance that does affect us, what may that possibly mean? It would probably have to require a psychotropic substance which is orders of magnitude more powerful and uniquely different than even the most powerful known psychotropic substance on the earth.
Maybe a treatment and a cure won't necessarily involve "psychotropics" per se (but surely, there would be some element of that in part) or necessarily a great leap forward in human consciousness (but I believe it will), rather, it may just involve a miraculous healing substance. In that case, this healing substance could be said to be, in many or all ways, more advanced, by several orders of magnitude, and more unique and different, than all known healing substances.
I know these may be lofty claims for a miracle substance that "only" solves a serious dopamine (and perhaps serotonin or other receptors, or perhaps neurochemistry in ways we don't understand) issue. But even if this treatment and cure "only" involves "merely" dopamine, etc. (I believe it may require something even more advanced which would require an advancement in our understanding of neurochemistry, something beyond our current understanding and not even imaginable right now and that, once it is invented, it would completely change our understanding and advance our understanding of neurochemistry),
it would still have titanic implications for many people.
It could lead to cures for terrible neurological conditions. It could lead to better solutions for pain management. It could lead to cures for any number of rare and/or unsolvable diseases. It could possibly shift our understanding and advance our treatment of all disease whatsoever. It could possibly lead to a greater dimension of human experience, human joy and human consciousness. It could possibly be the fountain of youth!
The point is, in all my knowledge and expertise, I can't think of how to quite get there, and don't have any candidates or leads. However, nevertheless, we might be closer than we think, it could be around the corner. The matter of scientific research into this problem could simply be a leap of faith into the unknown, wherein the solution is closer, as I said, than we might have otherwise downtroddenly believed.
Thus, my efforts and advocacy will also consist of the goal of finding an effective treatment and ultimately a full cure for our paliperidone-induced depression and sexual dysfunction (as well as antipsychotic-induced depression and sexual dysfunction, and even serotonin antidepressant induced sexual dysfunction).
These efforts and advocacy in service of finding an effective treatment and cure will no longer be solely wasted on the hundreds if not thousands of psychiatrists who have no willingness to do anything. Our cause will have great hope because my efforts will be more wisely spent on more powerful influencers, movers and shakers who may be in a better financial, political, scientific and medical position to help us than the psychiatrists who have caused this problem and do nothing to solve it, in addition to their unwillingness to advocate for our problem and their unwillingness to examine and remedy their mistreatment and misconduct towards us.
Don't give up hope comrades! I am working hard, night and day, so that there may be light at the end of the tunnel for us!
