How many more people need to die at the hands of psychiatric drugs?

Question

Is it time for this to stop? Any answers will be appreciated, asking not just for me, but for a friend.

My friends and I say this: Our hearts are filled with sadness for every soul lost. It is our hope the United States Of America defends the human mind, and stops psychiatric treatments which induce more suicides and homocides in the masses then they will ever reduce.

I think that we need to get these questions answered first, don't you?

1. Evidence That Establishes the validity of "schizophrenia" "depression" or other "major mental Illnesses" as biologically-based brain diseases.

2. Evidence For A Physical Diagnostic Exam such as a scan or test of the brain, blood, urine, genes, etc that can distinguish individuals with these diagnoses (prior to treatment with psychiatric drugs), from individuals without these diagnoses.

3. Evidence For a Base-line Standard of a neurochemically balanced "normal" personality, against which an "imbalance" can be measured and corrected by pharmaceutical means.

4. Evidence That Any Psychotropic Drug can correct a "chemical imbalance" attributed to a psychiatric diagnoses, and is any thing more than a non-specific alterer of physiology.

5. Evidence That Any Psychotropic Drug can decrease violence or suicide.

6. Evidence That Psychotropic Drugs do not in fact increase violence or suicide?

What is interesting is to see the difference in the answers that I got by posting this in two different areas?

Could I then take this and use it as some sort of study and call it scientific empirical evidence? Is Santa Clause Real?

So many thoughts on this, but thoughts and feelings are not scientifically measureable or valid and reliable either, so how do we change this?

We either convince everyone to legalize all psychotropic drugs and let those who they help have them or we stop dosing them out so freely?

What is wrong with this is there is no evidence and it is not just those that "want" to take them that are having to take them or having them pushed on them without wanting them it's much worse then any street drug pusher at least you can stop them, can't anyone really understand that?

I think we need to stop the legal drug pushing, that is all that I am saying.

Answer 1

Is this really a problem we should worry about?

If we just let them do the drugs, they'll kill themselves off. No more silly people who do drugs!

Actually, I'm just messing around, I dunno.

Answer 2

Getting anyone on the right combination of psychiatric drug combination as a trial and error crap shoot. It took many years and many hospitalizations to get my youngest daughter on the right combination. The key is having someone aware of the situation and who knows the patient and who can monitor the situation. There were times when I would take my daughter in to her psychiatrist and say "she is acting like a zombie so you need to change her drugs." Other drugs would make her beat me up or try to kill herself, but we got through it by my watching her and keeping a close eye on her behavior. She had appointments every day of the week for 6 years and I took her to all of them. It took 4 or 5 years to get the right combination to work where she could function normally and there were very few side effects.

After all of this, as soon as she turned 18 she moved out and stopped taking her medications. She had 2 children within 10 months and I am raising them. She has BPD with episodes of schizophrenia and psychosis. She is unable not keep a job and so she cannot raise her children. So 2 years after she moved out, I and my husband have had to start over raising babies. We love the kids and have had them for 3 years now, but if she was on her drugs she would be able to take care of them herself.

Answer 3

It takes time to get the right combination and dosage strengths of meds to treat mental illnesses. A lot of times, ppl are prescribed the rights meds and they do a lot of good but result in a false sense of being "cured" causing them to discontinue the meds. Many mentally ill ppl are non-compliant with their meds. Meds should be used in combination with counseling. As far as I know, it has not been made clear yet if the gunman at VT was compliant with his meds. Ppl who are on psych meds for depression don't commit suicide at the beginning of treatment, it's usually after a couple of months of taking the meds. The act of suicide takes energy to plan and execute and this is the reason why you often hear ppl say "so-n-so was doing so much better since being put on the meds, I can't believe they committed suicide."

Answer 4

A Senior Pastor of the Pleasant Valley Church in Thomaston, Georgia, has written a book called "A More Excellent Way."
It teaches spiritual roots of disease and pathways to wholeness. The pastor's name is Henry W. Wright and he deals with many mental disorders and autoimmune diseases which are a plague in this nation.

Answer 5

i think it is sad people taking things for this and that, doctors are pressured into prescribing something when you go to them even for an incurable cold, this is why we have drug resisitant bacteria, most drugs do more harm than good especially in the long run