Posted by mindevolution on February 3, 2007, at 15:55:45
In reply to Re: Akathisia or RLS? )) halcyondaze » mindevolution, posted by yxibow on February 3, 2007, at 12:45:37
> I'm going to agree to disagree with these arguments. They're non-productive and take away time from disseminating some information and interacting with people on the board.
think of me as a second opinion then. the greater the variety of views the better it is for everyone.
> There's nothing wrong with saying crap or sh*t on here, we're human and get exasperated sometimes. The board corrects it to not offend people.
i don't think it creates a positive, supportive environment which is what should be encouraged on a forum like this.
> I really think that we should agree to disagree on all topics of psychopharmacology because we are on different wavelengths, I feel there is a sense of trolling, and frankly I don't want to escalate something to a point where someone jumps in and tells either party to be civil when no apologies have been ever made about grouping "mental patients" with "criminals".
my concern is that often the medication, particularly the APs have been shown to turn an otherwise calm and peaceful patient into a violent and suicidal one. some studies suggest that up to 80% of violence in psyche wards is due to akathisia. medium to high dose APs may therefore be responsible in part or completely for turning a mental patient into a potentially violent criminal. there is already an image of the mentally ill being extremely violent in our culture, are you confident the medication plays absolutely no part in such an image?
> I feel like there is this outsider mentality, of someone who doesn't have a biological illness and is randomly issuing comments.
mental illness is by definition an illness without a known biological basis. if the pathology of a mental illness is discovered it is redefined and moves to another division of medicine.
> Sure a case study in Israel had Remeron reducing some tardive symptoms, but a case study is just that. There were better ones with tetrabenazine at Baylor and high dosing of BuSpar.
the point is that I made suggestions and provided supporting evidence when questioned. you have only cited one in all the claims you have made.
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