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November 28, 2005, 9:19 am PST
 Quote From: church_one Check it out very very carefully. The meds can put you in a cycle you don't want to be in. Only you know if you are not self medicating any way in any form. The drugs have caused many people to be worse. The doctors purpose is to prescribe medicine and fit you into their hole. Be sure you have the proper sleep and nutrition. Seeking a poison to fix you sounds ludicrous to me. It is a choice to act paranoid and let it continue. I made that choice and do not medicate at all, and paranoia will leave. No coffee, no cigarettes, even an aspirin is extremely rare. Yes, I agree with you. I recently read a study that showed that antipsychotics have a 50 year record of making schizophrenic patients worse. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Chronicity/50yearecord.pdf
Sometimes meds seem to be helping initially but the brain damage and the body changes they cause are dangerous.
For the person who thinks meds save lives, you have to become educated on this. It's not true. There's no evidence of a reduction in suicide. And even if they did stop someone from killing themselves (placebo effect, mind numbed to the point that you don't care enough to be sad anymore), the number of people they cause to commit suicide balances that effect because there is no reduction in suicide with these meds. http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/06/09.php
They can also cause health problems and lead to other choices that lead to "accidental" death (car accidents, alcohol etc.)
They actually do a lot of harm. Sometimes they seem to help initially but the effect wears off over time. It's not comparable to aspirin! http://www.ahrp.org/index.php
What helps schizophrenics? I would say alternative forms of care that include safety measures and human caring, counseling, time to heal and restore health. There's a book about a place called Sorteria where people heal from SZ without meds.
Schizophrenia is not a life sentence, it's something you can learn to cope with and even heal.
Most prescription psychotropic drugs developed by drug companies have been banned and are now street drugs. But the ones that are around now are either new or for some reason still legal. It takes time to become familiar with the side effects and the doctors attribute all of them to the patient's underlying condition so it takes a long time to learn everything there is to know.
please see www.breggin.com or www.drugawareness.org
There is also an anti-psychiatry board you can go to to learn more about the anti-meds views at http://www.psychforums.com/viewforum.php?f=241&sid=21abab2fef827f39d4630dc03a82006b |
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