Posted by Tomatheus on May 10, 2015, at 0:10:13
In reply to Lou's reply-dethizpsuportv? » Tomatheus, posted by Lou Pilder on May 9, 2015, at 22:39:02
Lou,
Perhaps I was wrong in my view of not seeing you show the same level of respect to the members here on Psycho-Babble that most of the members show one another. I do tend to think that you have good intentions and that you sincerely want to make sure that we know about the potential consequences of taking psychiatric medications. On the other side of the coin, I don't see posting about our experiences with psychiatric medications, or hosting a discussion forum where individuals share their experiences with medications and other treatments, as necessarily promoting the medications. I also tended to see your statements about the use of psychiatric medications in pediatric patients as placing unnecessary guilt on those whom you say "promote" psychiatric drugs. Nobody on this thread said anything about children taking psychiatric medications until you did. I think that you most likely want to go out of your way to warn any parents that might read the posts here about the consequences of allowing their children to be prescribed psychiatric medications, but I question the necessity of such a warning, given that 1) the discussions in this thread involve adults sharing their experiences with various medications, 2) medications used by adults are not necessarily approved or recommended for pediatric use, and 3) prescribing decisions are made by medical professionals, who should be aware of the risks of medications and share these risks with the patients and/or their family members.
You probably view the warnings that you give here about psychiatric medications as being measures to prevent harm associated with medication use, but I at least sometimes see the approach that you use (not to mention the way you insert your name into the subject line of all your posts) as being disruptive to the civil discourse that takes place on this forum. I think that many of the individuals who use this forum would like to see Psycho-Babble as a place where they can discuss the treatment of their mental health conditions without feeling judged, but I think that with all of your warnings about death potentially resulting from the medications we take and with you shifting the attention to the consequences of medications in pediatric patients when the discussions involve adult patients taking the medications, Psycho-Babble can't be the kind of discussion forum that many of us here would like for it to be.
Tomatheus
Has long-standing difficulties with energy and concentration, as well as psychotic and cognitive symptoms
Taking Abilify & supplements
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