Hold the Psychiatric Professional Accountable (RANT)

There is no such thing as a bad drug regarding antidepressants . There are just psychiatrists who are bad at seeing akathisia for what it is. It is always their mistake to UP the dose, because they see "anxiety" and "mania".

Throwing more prozac at akathisia is the leading cause of suicide & murders, not prozac.

Stop blaming the drug; hold the psychiatric profession responsible!

Do not up the dose if you feel anxious, hyper or manic even when directed. Instead, get a second opinion by a doctor who doesn't have socials with the first.

ymmv

Breggin Says "The best approach to antidepressants: Don't start taking them.

It’s time to say again what I’ve been saying for too many years on end. The antidepressants aren’t antidepressants. They are more likely to make a person worse than better. More tragically, these toxic agents push may people over the brink into suicide and violence.

It’s astonishing as I approach my 70th birthday that the FDA is beginning to catch up with what I’ve been saying for decades in regard to the limits of drugging children and adults to control their emotions and behavior. It’s gratifying but also a little frustrating. No, I don’t have a biochemical imbalance, I am outraged that my profession has consistently tried to foist off self-serving mythology as science and that so many people have been damaged or killed by the effects of the false biochemical diagnoses and toxic medications.

Meanwhile, the antidepressants are very difficult to stop taking. Withdrawal from antidepressants can lead to “crashing,” with agitation, violence and suicide. Withdrawal from these noxious drugs should be done slowly with experienced clinical supervision. These drugs are not only unsafe to start—they are dangerous to stop.

The best approach to antidepressants: Don’t start taking them.

Research into anti-depressants will show that 67% of people on them will show positive improvement compared to previous medication.

However, the 33% who don't like the new meds tend to under-report suicidal ideation either during treatment or when they discontinue medication.

The bottom line is, ADs are not recommended to substitute for proper treatment of depression, which should always be cognitive behavior therapy with temporary use of medication, as needed (mainly anxiolytics and sometimes sedatives).

To prevent any suicide attempts, medication should be doled out in 3-week allotments unless the patient can demonstrate lack of suicidal ideation.

Even a layman such as myself can figure this out on his own. Why can't shrinks?

Prozac scandal 'besmirches' Canadian university | World dispatch | Guardian Unlimited

In 2007, Canada's largest and most prestigious university and has come under fire from two Nobel laureates and 25 other internationally respected scientists for withdrawing a job offer to a UK researcher after he questioned the safety of antidepressants like Prozac.

In a letter, the 27 scientists say the decision to send Dr David Healy packing violated the principles of academic freedom, 'besmirched' the name of the University of Toronto
and 'poisoned the reputation' of the centre for addiction and mental heath (CAMH), an affiliated teaching hospital.

Dr Healy, who works at the University of Wales, had been courted by the centre for more than a year to direct its mood and anxiety disorders program. But the job offer was hastily withdrawn last November after he gave a speech in which he said Prozac and similar antidepressants may trigger suicide or violent behaviour in some patients. He also said that Eli Lilly, the drug company who has sold the product to 40m people, has known about the problem for years.

Thus a mental health consumer in Ontario should really be careful lest her mental health may be compromised by the threat of loss of sponsorship by BigPharma at CAMH.

While BigPharma may deny they influence their government sponsees in the mental health and addiction industry, such government institutions such as CAMH and even BC's Mental Heath and Addiction services are sensitive about offending their major sponsors.

This may explain why government-run mental health clinics treat heroin addicts and clients whose behavior is acute and/or chronic enough to treat while advising people with mental health issues less severe to seek help from psychotherapists and/or psychiatrists on their own.

That the government funds mainly emergency care (first psychotic episode at the nearest hospital psychiatric ward, and at a community hospice thereafter) should remind the wary mental health consumer that his mental health issues are minor compared to the majority of the 10% of all Canadians in psychiatric care today.

This minimization of neurosis only contributes to the delusion of a few of the highly functional mental health consumers to falsely assume they are well, and to continue building the castles they will eventually dwell in when and if the stress of life finally precipitates a brief psychotic episode.

Hopefully, they continue to remain highly functional, because the lower functioning clients end up being treated just like methadone clients.

LSD use never leads to suicide, but may be "one straw too many."

I was musing about a question posted by a certain Psychfo contributer, one of many members of Craigslist. She asked about a friend who died after taking LSD. I denied that LSD contributed to that kid committing suicide.

However LSD could have indirectly led to him accidentally killing himself by being a dumbass. LSD appears to open one up to the concept of non-self i.e. that we're not narcissistic individuals trying to look out for number one, ME. This appears to cause an LSD user to question his or her meaning of existence. As a result of indiscriminate drug use, this existential challenge may lead to one straw too many on the camel's back for the user, regardless of her age.

Sometimes, the ravages of teenage hormones might end up with the kid psychotic, but LSD is not the cause of the ensuing diagnosis, be it schizophrenia or a mood disorder. Rather, LSD, like other recreational drugs, are tools put into the wrong hands. Such drugs are neither harmful nor deadly except to an ignorant kid who has no clue about the pharmacology and toxicology of illegal substance use.

How the Tibetan Book of the Dead fits into this is that prior to DEA's demonization of entheogens such as LSD and MDMA, they were used therapeutically by shrinks and therapists. The near-death experience provided by LSD, peyote, MDMA and even GHB is a powerful therapeutic tool. By making such entheogens illegal, the DEA has turned such tools into another way to uncover probable mental illness in children.

Then they are given potentially dangerous psychoactive drugs such as Prozac, which might result in a neuroleptic malignacy(sp?) syndrome and might even cause a worsening of symptoms including the rise of another disorder such as OCD. In truth, illegal drugs do not make kids crazy.

IMHO They'd be crazy soon enough from working crazy hours full-time once they turn 18. :p

What might make kids crazy is being given powerful psychoactive meds in an attempt to manufacture another schizophrenic, another MDD case, another OCD hand-wringer, another ODD-CD delinquent.

IMHO Meds and kids don't mix. YMMV