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I am also very disillusioned with the psychiatric profession. The way they prescribe drugs seems no better than guesswork. Two years ago my dad having what I r
by dsego 9y ago
I am also very disillusioned with the psychiatric profession. The way they prescribe drugs seems no better than guesswork.
Two years ago my dad having what I recognized as parkisonisms and akathisia but the psychiatrist said it wasn't possible because they had stopped giving him haldol. But then when she saw him, she said why we didn't come sooner (it's always the patient's fault) and quickly prescribed akineton. This has helped a little, but he has never recovered fully. He had also been on various antidepressants since 1994, Cymbalta, Velafax, Quentiax, Seroxat, Mirzaten, Ladiomil, probably more. I mean, what's the use? What is the actual use of taking those pills for decades?
- colordrops 9y agoMaking money for big pharma, unfortunately. It's really ugly out there.
- hndamien 9y agoThe was a guy named Loren Mosher who was the head of the National Institute of Medical Health (NIMH) who vehemently spoke out against the use of neuroleptics. He was removed from his position despite there being numerous studies (including one done by the World Health Organisation (WHO)) indicating that the use of these/ access to drugs were correlative to rates of chronic conditions. He also ran the Soteria project that had moderate replicable success without drugs by having patients live together in certain controlled conditions.