Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on August 12, 2014, at 21:49:49
In reply to Re: being 'chemically restrained' happened to me, posted by LostBoyinNC45 on August 12, 2014, at 21:38:32
I consider this an important issue in psychiatry for a variety of reasons, btw. But one reason has to do with using these neuroleptic drugs on patients who are mood disordered or anxiety disordered, but not schizophrenic or manic depressive. There is a lot of evidence that TD and EPS side effects occur easier and faster in primarily mood/affective disordered patients than primarily schizophrenics....schizophrenics can typically tolerate huge quantities of neuroleptics.
When an affective disordered patient goes inpatient for some reasons and maybe gets upset or agitated or scared...oftentimes the psychiatry staff become all bent out of shape and "wont tolerate it." They sometimes will cite "staff safety" for the reason. I dont buy it and to me, its part of the deal they signed on for...dealing with psychiatry patients is lets face it, sometimes physically dangerous. If they cant deal with the potential danger, they should quit. They should not sedate me with a neuroleptic just to make their hospital lives easier and theoretically, safer.
Its nothing but battery with a prescription drug. Might as well take a 2 by 4 and whack the psych patient upside the head and knock them out...to me its the exact same thing and Ive been through it.
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