[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'K')inda sad if you ask me, docs perfectly willing to prescribe stuff that occasionally causes people to commit suicide or mass murder; but lets involve the FBI and DEA before prescribing something that might make you feel a little goofy before you go to sleep.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'W')hich furthur impacts the legitimate palliative care of patients with actual pain-relief needs.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')
Try it.

Given your issue with anger, this may be what you need to allow you to interact without losing your cool.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'O')TOH, I have patients that come to me and tell me about how their life is really crappy and they don't want to get out of bed in the morning and they're super irritable and grumpy with their spouse and their kids.

[Micki]

And are you aware of this?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Economic Stimulus Bill Mandates Electronic Health Records For Every Citizen Without Opt Out Or Patient Consent Provisions

The Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) warns that the economic stimulus bill mandates electronic health records for every citizen without providing for opt-out or patient consent provisions. "Without those protections, Americans' electronic health records could be shared -- without their consent -- with over 600,000 covered entities through the forthcoming nationally linked electronic health-records network,"

[smallpoxgirl]

That EHR thing, to me, is terrifically alarming. With a system that big, there is no concievable way to have meaningful security oversight. It essentially means that anything you say to a doctor using the system, you might as well just post it to your myspace page. It also means that your medical records are going to be incredibly vulnerable to being hacked, and either destroyed or edited illicitly.

[medicvet]

I was misdiagnosed and given incorrect medications for many years. Finally, only a little over a year and a half ago, a medicine that was beneficial without sideffects that were too severe were prescribed with me, and that is seroquel. I also take amitriptalin and lorazepam. It has managed to get me to a more stable frame of mine than I can remember having had in a long, looong time.

But it was a long hard road to get to that point.

[jbrovont]

Drugs obviously affect the individual in unique ways. In some cases I understand they can cause psycosis of various varieties. Also, in cases of severe depression, people also become "apathetic." When they first start treatment, they get more energetic, but they are still depressed - sometimes unfortunately, they finally get the "motivation" to commit suicide.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Micki', 'M')any anti-depressants like say Prozac, are known to frequently increase suicidal tendencies in the intital weeks or months of use.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', 'I') was misdiagnosed and given incorrect medications for many years. Finally, only a little over a year and a half ago, a medicine that was beneficial without sideffects that were too severe were prescribed with me, and that is seroquel. I also take amitriptalin and lorazepam. It has managed to get me to a more stable frame of mine than I can remember having had in a long, looong time.

But it was a long hard road to get to that point.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jbrovont', '
')
Mental illness usually get's "triggered" by a stressor. Health and stress free lifestyle isn't a real strong point for us, but addressing the triggers and sometimes go a long ways towards recovery.

[medicvet]

I know what you mean about triggers. I get them at the oddest of times and places. Like in the summer when driving down a country road and smelling roadkill. Or if I can hear the life flight chopper coming into our local hospital to pick up someone to take to a better hospital.

Things on a tv screen won't always do it to me though, but then again, I rarely watch war movies or movies with gratitious violence. But going down to McAlester to where the Army weaons depot is will set me off if I hear them practicing the bombs. I can feel in inside before I ever hear it.

It did talk a lot of different meds. I have ptsd, with thinkgs like ocd and panic disorder and agoraphobia that fall under that umbrella. I was once misdiagnosed bipolar..well, in any case, they say it might be what they call 'rapid cycling'. All I know is that I am still fighting the VA , and thanks to the FOIA, they are releasing more and more of my records, and now I have a shitload pile of paperwork to go through to winnow it all out and find out the most pertinent parts that directly relate to my claim.

They did try me on prozac, and I remember that one pretty well, because it got me totally hyper, and they said it was making me go manic and stopped it on me. I have never felt that hypter before or since.

I am a membe of NAMI myself, and wish others would look into it as well...it is not just for the mentally ill, but all who are concerned or someway involved in this:


http://www.nami.org/

[Micki]

Just came across this interview that was quite interesting.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hitaker originally was a highly regarded medical reporter at the Albany Times Union and also wrote off and on for the Boston Globe. A series he co-wrote for the Boston Globe on harmful psychiatric research was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. When he began his investigative research into psychiatric issues, Whitaker was still a believer in the story of progress that psychiatry has been telling the public for decades.

He said, "I absolutely believed the common wisdom that these antipsychotic drugs actually had improved things and that they had totally revolutionized how we treated schizophrenia. People used to be locked away forever, and now maybe things weren't great, but they were a lot better. It was a story of progress."

That story of progress was fraudulent, as Whitaker soon found out when he gained new insight from his research into torturous psychiatric practices such as electroshock, lobotomy, insulin coma, and neuroleptic drugs. Psychiatrists told the public that these techniques "cured" psychosis or balanced the chemistry of the brain.

But, in reality, the common thread in all these different treatments was the attempt to suppress "mental illness" by deliberately damaging the higher functions of the brain. The stunning truth is that, behind closed doors, the psychiatric establishment itself labeled these treatments as "brain-damaging therapeutics."