Koz26
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Given how these drugs have all these horrible effects to me it seems the benefits don't outweigh the risk. Maybe it helps a few people, but does anyone honestly need psychiatric drugs? Can't these ppl get better without these drugs? Like if your depressed, your depressed for a reason, low amount of friends, no girlfriend, death in a family. There is a reason your depressed, it may not be a good feeling to feel depressed buy if your feelings depressed your body is telling you to do something about it. Drugs are not the answer, if someone is depressed and is smoking weed to cope we look at them negatively. Yet of taking an antidepressant its like. Good for them, there doing something to help them. Taking a drug is t working to help yourself. It's the quick and easy way out
Psychiatry is a scam, they create all these "mental illnesses" like add, and ADHD, and all those symptoms is are ppl that are hyperactive or something along that nature. How is that a mental illness? Then we give them these drugs claiming it will make them better, yet I don't know if it does. Like sure it probably "calms them down", aka, slows down there brain and cognitive ability, but that only helps the teacher who is pissed off at having a hyperactive student as opposed to helping the kid themself. Did the ADD kid ever think he had a mental illness? No he and his parents just pushed it on the parents because there annoyed, also the school gets money when there students are on these meds, cause it's considered they have a disability. Talk about conflict of interest! The fact that all you guys were given this invega shot for many different reasons supports the fact they just want u on a drug and not that there curing a particular illness. How come there giving this same drug to a person has anxiety, was experiencing psychosis or was being violent. You don't give the same medicine for completely different illnesses, whats up with that? Also, do you notice all these symptoms were displaying are not even listed as side effects of the medication yet we have experienced it? Why is that? How does that make any sense.
All I can say is, taking this antipsychotic drug was the BIGGEST mistake of my life. I didn't even want the drug, I saw a psych he asksd if I ant prescription and I told him I dont want medication. I come again and he bothers me again about same thing. Which this time I decided to take. Also lets not forget that he lied about how the drug works to me, and he lied hez giving me a small dose, and he also said my condition will get worse if I don't take it. Even though I repeatedly told him I am gettibg better with time. I just need to lay off the weed. However the psychiatrist number one priority is not to do what is best for me, it is to get me on a drug. While I was on it he didn't even monitor me asking about side effects on it or anything, I was telling him im experiencing side effects and he just brushed it off and told me to keep taking it. Besides that he was turning my parents against me telling me I HAVE to take the drug. The guy also wanted me to take for 6 months even though I wasn't experiencing psychosis anymore, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
Seriously, I just think the world would be a better place without psychiatry as a profession existing.
The last thing I want to do is get into an argument on here. You're entitled to your opinion and I respect that. However, I do not think I would have came out of my mania if not for the use of antipsychotics. Taking them orally for a couple days got rid of my psychosis and then when I came off them I returned to baseline within a day or two. Long-lasting shots like Invega are fucked up, but I think oral antipsychotics have a time and place. Again, that's just my opinion.
But to say there are no such things as mental illnesses is a bit disrespectful to the people who genuinely suffer from them. And believe me, living out in Pittsburgh I met people who had schizophrenia and were NOT medicated for it. The results were not pretty. Envision a black guy walking down the street EVERY day, arguing with himself saying things like, "Respect this shit N*gga. N*gga you better respect me." He constantly said this kind of stuff to people who weren't there. I worked with this guys brother and it devastated the family because they could not afford any treatments. Thus, he continued to live his life in a constant delusionary psychosis.
I understand you are upset about the Invega. We all are. Trust me, I have dealt with borderline suicidality for the last 9 months because of it. However, there are such things as neurological imbalances that cause things like Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, etc..
This thread used to be helpful because people would talk about their progress and what they are trying to do to get better. People would offer each other advice and support. Now it's just turning into an anti-med/anti-psychiatry thread that doesn't think there are such things as mental illnesses? I won't keep wasting my time trying to post updates on my recovery and do my best to give people some hope if people like you are going to take personal digs at me and say things like Bipolar and ADHD are some fabricated illnesses that don't need treatment. If you encountered me when I was having my manic episode I bet it would have changed your opinion.