Or is it just me looking?
It gives me something to do
Other than Concentrate on
"Retardive Dyskinesia"
Don't you just love the names
They dream up for the Mentally Ill
Apparently I'm B.A.D.
Psychiatric Medicine
In fact COMPOUNDS
The Mental Ill Health
Of Psychiatric Patients
Short term maybe
But Long term Solution
Bullshit
I bet there's hardly a Doctor
Or Psychiatrist
That would happily take these Medications
And yet they dish them out like lollies
To Children
Do we deserve this sort of Punishment?
Where's the justification
In what we like to think of
As a Humane Society?
If we gave them a Town
Where everyone was Mentally Ill
And there was no Prejudice
The "Mentally Ill" usually have more brains
So they might just do better than the average town.
Give them a Leg Up
Give them a chance
Give them rewards
Don't just pat yourselves on the back
For even tolerating them
It's Archaic
And Barbaric
Please CHANGE
The Status Quo
Before Millions
And Millions more Human beings
Suffer unnecessarily
Because they bear the Stigma
Of Mental Illness
PLEASE
Monday, June 6, 2016
My Dream for people with Psychiatric Problems
My Dream for people that
Present
With Mental Health Issues
Would be that we
First find out
If the sufferer
Is being Victimised
In the family Unit
And Offer them
Indépendant Living accommodation
And Employment
Whereby you have
A roll over system
For all Employees
So that in their
Absence
From illness
Or holiday
Another
Trained fellow psychiatric patient
In good health
Act as a Locum
would in a Doctors Surgery
We would also give them
Health Insurance
And Buffer them
Against Poverty
For it is Poverty
That destroys Human Souls
That is my Dream
It is simply not enough to try and mainstream Us
And expect Us to float
In a vicious Society
That more oft than not
Completely Rejects
The Mentally Ill
Where is the conscience?
Where is the Humanity?
Present
With Mental Health Issues
Would be that we
First find out
If the sufferer
Is being Victimised
In the family Unit
And Offer them
Indépendant Living accommodation
And Employment
Whereby you have
A roll over system
For all Employees
So that in their
Absence
From illness
Or holiday
Another
Trained fellow psychiatric patient
In good health
Act as a Locum
would in a Doctors Surgery
We would also give them
Health Insurance
And Buffer them
Against Poverty
For it is Poverty
That destroys Human Souls
That is my Dream
It is simply not enough to try and mainstream Us
And expect Us to float
In a vicious Society
That more oft than not
Completely Rejects
The Mentally Ill
Where is the conscience?
Where is the Humanity?
N.B.
Severity of the illness, alcohol or illicit drugs had no effect in the results in the Survey on chronic Brain Damage from Antipsychotics. Which means we really are CRUEL towards the Mentally Ill when we use medication as our first line of Treatment. We are not Shielding and Protecting the vulnerable. We are PUNISHING them!
Sunday, June 5, 2016
The Psychiatrists love to blame Illicit Drugs but they have little or no relevance when compared to the damage done by Psychiatric Drugs as stated below...
Brain Damage Caused by Neuroleptic Psychiatric Drugs
In the past two decades, countless medical studies have shown that use of neuroleptic psychiatric drugs (also known as antipsychotics) is associated with structural brain changes, especially when taking high dosages for a long time. These brain changes can include actual shrinkage of the higher level parts of the brain. The shrinkage can be seen in brain scans and autopsy studies. In response to industry defenders who claim that this shrinkage is from the "mental illness," studies show neuroleptics lead to similar brain changes in animals. While the medical side of large libraries has this information, the public media side of the library does not. In other words, the public, patients and their families are not being informed about what medicine has long known.
Ron Unger: Latest News on Brain Tissue Shrinkage from Antipsychotic Drugs
- Ron Unger, chair of MindFreedom Lane County affiliate, is a full time mental health counselor, who has raised concerns about the way the neuroleptic or "antipsychotic" psychiatric drugs have been linked to shrinkage of brain tissue.
Neuroleptics shrink brains in monkeys
- In this study, both an older neuroleptic (Haldol or "haloperidol") and a newer atypical neuroleptic (Zyprexa or "olanzapine") caused significant shrinkage in the higher level parts of the brains in monkeys. Source: Neuropsychopharmacology 9 March 2005
- These are a few of the many mainstream medical articles indicating that using neuroleptic psychiatric drugs (also known as antipsychotics) can lead to significant structural brain damage.
- This medical research revealed that the neuroleptics (also known as antipsychotics) may not only shrink the brain, but cause actual cell death.
Neuroleptic psychiatric drugs apparently impact brain cell numbers.
- Here's a follow-up study to the other study of monkeys given neuroleptics (see related content below), "Effect of Chronic Exposure to Antipsychotic Medication on Cell Numbers in the Parietal Cortex of Macaque Monkeys"
- More about neuroleptic damage to monkey brains from Biol Psychiatry 2008 April 15: "Effect of chronic antipsychotic exposure on astrocyte and oligodendrocyte numbers in macaque monkeys"
- The New York Times reports an extremely important discussion with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Nancy C. Andreasen. In he conversation, Prof. Andreasen speaks out about her findings that neuroleptic psychiatric drugs (also known as "antipsychotics") are leading to significant brain atrophy -- or shrinkage -- in patients.
- In the "climate crisis" controversy there are deniers, people who are putting out misinformation to cloud the debate about the greenhouse effect. The same thing is true in the debate about brain damage caused by the neuroleptic drugs, also known as antipsychotics. Some scientists, instead of warning the public about the many studies regarding massive brain changes induced by neuroleptics, are hypothesizing - based on fragmentary and contradictory research - that neuroleptics somehow help prevent brain damage. Here Robert Whitaker, in his Mad in America blog, analyzes some of these claim as aired on the PBS national television show, PBS.
Permanent muscle twitching from antipsychotics: Tardive Dyskinesia and Tardive Dystonia
- It's been known since the 1950's that the family of psychiatric drugs called antipsychotics -- also known as neuroleptics -- can lead to involuntary muscular movements that can often be permanent. Among these are the "TD's," which stands for both Tardive Dyskinesia and Tardive Dystonia. Since the 1990's, the psychiatric industry has reassured the public that newer neuroleptics cause far less TD. However, now that the data is in, more recent medical studies show that the rate for TD caused by newer antipsychotics is "more similar" to the rate by the older antipsychotics than the the medical field generally believed. That means that the mental health industry has falsely reassured millions of people since the 1990's that their risk of TD is lower than reality. TD can range from mild twitches, to extremely disfiguring spasms.
Archives of General Psychiatry: Neuroleptics Shrink Brain Volume
- An article in the February 2011 Archives of General Psychiatry, "Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment and Brain Volumes" by Ho, Andreasen, et al. describes a study that points to antipsychotic drugs as a major cause of brain shrinkage. The study found that over 7 to 14 years, "More antipsychotic drug treatment, including duration and intensity, was linked to greater declines in brain volume. Severity of disease, alcohol and illegal drug use had no effect."
- Journalist Robert Whitaker blogs here on Psychology Today web site about what he calls the "bomb shell" of researcher Nancy Andreasen: That neuroleptic (antipsychotic) psychiatric drugs can lead to brain shrinkage of the frontal lobes, the part that makes us human.
- Psychiatrists often argue that to prove "brain damage" from a psychiatric procedure, whether psychotropic drugs or electroshock, we'd have to prove masses of brain cells dying. Whether or not there are studies about certain psychiatric procedures leading to mass brain cell death, here is one of the latest theories about the mechanism of brain damage following enormous blasts from "improvised explosive devices" to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that brain damage even from a large bomb can result in far more complex changes than cell death to one of the most complex networks in the known universe: the brain. Excerpt: "During a blast, a quick pressure wave rips through the air; the question is what happens when that wave meets brain tissue. Parker says many people assumed that blast-induced TBI damages the brain by ripping small holes in brain cells, causing them to die. He had a different theory: that the mechanical forces of a blast might trigger a chemical shake-up within the cells, initiated by proteins called integrins at the cell surface." The below is a link to an from article by Courtney Humphries published in the Features section of Harvard Magazine - May/June 2012, pages 36 to 41.
- People diagnosed with dementia are especially sensitive to neuroleptics (also known as antipsychotics). In a way, these folks are the 'canary in the coal mine,' because an antipsychotic can cause rapid and significant brain changes, including neuroleptic malignant syndrome (which can be fatal). Especially hypersensitive are those with a variety of dementia where the brain has something called "Lewy Bodies" (which are visible under microscopic examination of the brain. More than one millions Americans have Dementia with Lewy Bodies, or DLB. Here's a UK General Practice Notebook plainly explaining the dangers of neuroleptics and dementia. These dangers can apply to everyone, but they are especially pronounced with people who have DLB.
- The well-respected Los Angeles Times ran an article about a scientific study indicating that taking neuroleptic psychiatric drugs - also known as 'antipychotics' - may shrink the brain.
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About Dopamine
Psychosis and antipsychotic drugs[edit]
Main article: Psychosis
Psychiatrists in the early 1950s discovered that a class of drugs known as typical antipsychotics (also known as major tranquilizers), were often effective at reducing the psychoticsymptoms of schizophrenia.[90] The introduction of the first widely used antipsychotic, chlorpromazine (Thorazine), in the 1950s, led to the release of many patients with schizophrenia from institutions in the years that followed.[90] By the 1970s researchers understood that these typical antipsychotics worked as antagonists on the D2 receptors.[90][91] This realization led to the so-called dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, which postulates that schizophrenia is largely caused, by hyperactivity of brain dopamine systems.[92] The dopamine hypothesis drew additional support from the observation that psychotic symptoms were often intensified by dopamine-enhancing stimulants such as methamphetamine, and that these drugs could also produce psychosis in healthy people if taken in large enough doses.[92] In the following decades other atypical antipsychotics that had fewer serious side effects were developed.[90] Many of these newer drugs do not act directly on dopamine receptors, but instead produce alterations in dopamine activity indirectly.[93] These drugs were also used to treat other psychoses.[90] Antipsychotic drugs have a broadly suppressive effect on most types of active behavior, and particularly reduce the delusional and agitated behavior characteristic of overt psychosis.[91] There remains substantial dispute, however, about how much of an improvement the patient experiences on these drugs.[94]
Later observations, however, have caused the dopamine hypothesis to lose popularity, at least in its simple original form.[92] For one thing, patients with schizophrenia do not typically show measurably increased levels of brain dopamine activity.[92] Also, other dissociative drugs, notably ketamine and phencyclidine that act on glutamate NMDA receptors (and not on dopamine receptors) can produce psychotic symptoms.[92] Perhaps most importantly, those drugs that do reduce dopamine activity are a very imperfect treatment for schizophrenia: they only reduce a subset of symptoms, while producing severe short-term and long-term side effects.[95] Even so, many psychiatrists and neuroscientists continue to believe that schizophrenia involves some sort of dopamine system dysfunction.[90] As the "dopamine hypothesis" has evolved over time, however, the sorts of dysfunctions it postulates have tended to become increasingly subtle and complex.[90]
However, the widespread use of antipsychotic drugs has long been controversial.[94] There are several reasons for this. First, antipsychotic drugs are perceived as very aversive by people who have to take them, because they produce a general dullness of thought and suppress the ability to experience pleasure.[96] Second, it is difficult to show that they act specifically against psychotic behaviors rather than merely suppressing all types of active behavior.[94] Third, they can produce a range of serious side effects, including weight gain, diabetes, fatigue, sexual dysfunction, hormonal changes, and a type of serious movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia.[95]Some of these side effects may continue long after the cessation of drug use, or even permanently.[95]
Queens Birthday Weekend
The Queen had another marvellous Birthday and I wish I possessed more of her Stoicism and Grace. I have too much too commiserate about to be that gracious. God Save Our Queen though. I love her.
Visit to New Psychiatrist
I visited a new Psychiatrist. A charming and kind Soul so I have had it verified. I like him and hope the new regime helps. But I've already noticed the Seraquel is making me have restless leg syndrome. They all attack the Dopamine and that is what I need more of rather then less of if my concentration is to improve. Theoretically it works but it seems to me like giggery pokery and all at the expense of the patient. When Tardive dyskinesia occurs in New Zealand everyone just plays dumb. Suffer the patient because certainly nobody else does. I am pissed off to put it mildly but a nice Doctor does reduce the sting so I shall try and be courteous rather than ungracious. When I wish they'd just get it over with and be kind and line me up against a wall and Shoot me I have to go on with the knowledge that I will inevitably completely loss my mind to Mental Illness and Antipsychotics. It's a fatal combination and I believe it's time we started acknowledging that the Mentally Ill deserve a place and a Job rather than simply being Punished for having human frailties. Please give them Rights and Dignity instead of insults and medication.....or just SHOOT them!
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