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Date Posted: 17:10:31 08/09/11 Tue
Author: Vice Verser
Subject: Psychiatry/Mental Illness (Rant)

I was thinking about the psychiatrists that I've come into contact with in the past and how they seemed to feel like anti-psychotics and anti-depressants were a cure-all. I admit, some people's mental illness is more severe than others. In certain cases a person may have a chemical imbalance or the the structure of their brain has physically changed.
I believe that those patients need medicine everyday or however often a trained physician prescribes. I don't believe that everyone that consults a psychiatrist about depression is automatically in the category of having to take anti-depressants everyday of their life.

I was prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants. The anti-psychotic I was prescribed is called Invega and the anti-depressant I was prescribed is called Abilify. I refuse to believe I need a medicine everyday just to attain a state of well-being.
I have panic attacks on rare occassions and when that happens I immediately take the Abilify. I feel that what psychiatrists fail to realize is that in certain cases people just need someone to talk to that listens. I feel that in some cases counseling may work better than just taking medicine.
Also, using anti-psychotics and anti-depressants for long periods of time can give you ticks and twitches you can't control. Abilify is a drug that is supposedly a better version of Haldol, it has less side-effects. Prolonged use of certain anti-psychotics/anti-depressants can cause a disorder called Tardive Dyskenesia.

Another thing, everytime I turn on the television I see another drug they had me hopped up on in the psych ward on malpractice commercials. I was watching music videos and this commercial came on where it was saying people that had bad side-effects from a drug called Celexa could be compensated.

I had a really bad reaction to Celexa in the hospital and when I got home because they were still prescribing it to me. It made me have panic attacks. I felt that it gave me restless legs, made me shake and I felt very disoriented. I've talked to people that say it works for them though, I guess everyone's body is different.

I've seen the effects prolonged use of Seroquel can do to people when I was in Aurora Pavilion. It gives you all kind of ticks and twitches, jerks and involuntary muscle movements. When I was in jail there was an inmate that was in the cell next to mine. They brought him Seroquel twice a day.
He got it around 7:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. One day he was telling me and another inmate that earlier that day he balled his hand up in a fist and for a few minutes he couldn't open his hand back up. When he said it I was like, "That's one of the reasons I'd rather talk with a therapist than just take pills".

Honestly, being around mentally ill people in group therapy sessions in mental health facilities is the most I've felt I've ever identified with any group of people. I think that most mentally ill people have good hearts. For a member of the staff to ask someone, "What's special about you?" and one of the patients say "Nothing's special about me". I can relate to that person way more than someone that has a great life and has never been through anything.

The safest I've ever felt around a group of people is in a mental health facility. Maybe that's a depressing thing to say but it's sincere. People tend to show you more respect when they're not in a vicious popularity contest with you. I don't think that mental illness is the worse thing that can happen to a person. It tends to make you more honest with people in my opinion.

More importantly, you're constantly having to be more honest about your limitations, your likes and dislikes. I also feel that consulting a therapist is going to challenge you to face your 'demons'. I don' plan on ever going back to a psych ward because they make you take the medicine regardless of how you feel.
I mean, even the most depressed person has good days where they just feel blessed to be alive. Some doctors seem so afraid to give the wrong advice and get sued for it, that they treat every case as a potential crisis-state without taking the patient's progress into account.

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