Posted by kotoole7 on January 16, 2011, at 4:50:50
In reply to Re: all psychotropic drugs, posted by europerep on January 16, 2011, at 2:43:00
It would be a little odd to be pedantic in posts written in a small internet box, so thanks for the levity..
Psychotic is a fairly well know term, though I have to admit generally refers to episodes related to psychoanalysis. I use it sometime in place of psychotropic which refers to all drugs that affect the brain and nervous system.
One thing at a time.. First of all you nailed me! I dont believe for a second that something called mental illness exists. I know for a fact its entomology and can assure you there is no such thing as what is commonly called mental illness. With that said I understand your surface logic that it doesn't make sense mental illness is caused by the drugs used to treat it. See, I said the same thing back in 1979, and hence the start of the case studies. I will give you one of (rounded off) thousands. A very nice lady, widow, in her 50s just got a good job at a government facility here in the Kansas City area working the second shift. When she came in at 3 in the afternoon she had to park near the back of a massive parking lot and when she got off at 11pm he car was always fairly abandoned at the back of this lot.. She became paranoid of walking to her car and someone being in the back seat or jumping out of the dark and getting in her car as she was getting in. They had a camera surveillance of the lot but even with that there had been cases of women being attacked in their cars getting off work.
So yes, she was afraid of that possibility, and could easily be labeled paranoid. Her solution was to stack tied bundles of newspapers all the way up in the back seats and the passenger seat in her car, and when she saw those tied bundles in place she felt secure getting in and driving off that lot. On the weekends she would generally always remove the tied bundles but one weekend she just didn't think about it and went to a family function. Long story short her daughter in law noticed the papers in the car stacked near to the roof and concluded she was out of her mind. She then talked to the son, he agreed with his wife and they both started to insist she get help Since her good insurance covered it she reluctantly agreed to go in thinking she might be overreacting. The good doctor gave her a prescription of (back then) Valium; she had some of the typical adverse reactions to the drug, which lead to more visits; but the reactions to the drug convinced her son and daughter in law she was really sick and they eventually had her committed against her will. (this was back in the 1974, that would not happen today, she would just go on a string of up to five psychotropic meds). This very sane, wise and good woman is now finding herself in a mental institution against her will and she cant get out! The more she protest her sanity, the more she is deemed insane She finally after 5 years of trying to get free, is strong enough and wise enough to just play the game, act like she is taking her daily regiment of meds and eventually she is able to totally BS her way to being released, which almost never happened back then, she was an exceptionally strong willed women.
Sorry this is jumbled and very brief I would need several pages to do this case justice, but Im hoping you are getting the point, and maybe a little understanding of the labeling process that is associated with all case studies of mental illness.. . Someone behaves in a way others deem is not normal and then the labeling begins.. Soon followed by some class of drug treatment, which because of the very nature of any toxic drug on the brain and nervous system leads to further mental and reaction issues Horrible vicious cycle An example: the number one side effect of all depression meds is depression.
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