Comments on: Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck?

By: Lola

Lola — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:10:26 +0000

I agree with you on some points, not all. I believe that ADHD is a way overdiagnosed condition and a scapegoat for parents and teachers that just don’t want to deal with a hyperactive child, whether or not it’s in the child’s best interest. My situation is different, I have been a foster mom for years to two beautiful little boys that I love with all my heart. As the boys are getting older, they are becoming more and more symptomatic, these are symptoms of ADHD, however the probability of it being FASD with ADHD characteristics is extremely likely. Which means that any kind of ADHD medications may not be beneficial.
This is what we see from the 5 yr old boy; constant chewing on everything from toys to his hands and feet (we go through about half a pack of gum a day to partially satisfy this sensory issue), he rarely walks straight, hips moving side to side, legs going up and jerky movements, arms waving back and forth, spinning, major trouble focusing on anything without all five of his senses being continuously overstimulated. He is subject to many mood swings throughout the day, ranging in a high laughing hysterically over nothing (actually sounds like a hyena, kind of scary when you hear it), and screaming angrily. He also goes through many bouts of talking gibberish during the day, he says real words but they are so mixed up we can’t figure out what he is trying to say. He doesn’t get along well with others.
This is an unmedicated 5 year old boy. Our family doctor equated what he goes through as having a thousand mosquitos swarming around his body.
Can you imagine? Trying to listen to a story being read by the teacher as mosquitos are buzzing in your ears? Trying to sit still while eating dinner as they are landing all over you? How can I expect him to walk normally? How can I expect him to answer when I call him? My poor little boy! He is lost in is own body. His personality, the one we fell in love with, is still in there. We need to “fog” those mosquitos away.
He is not on Ritalin. He may never be on Ritalin. He is just about to start on something to help him that our doctor prescribed. If the doctor wants to do a trial of Ritalin to see if there is a positive change, I am willing to give him the medication. I don’t want him to just tolerate living in his own body, I want him to thrive.

By: mado

mado — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:22:50 +0000

This drug is often prescribed to treat attention deficit disorder. It is becoming an illicit street drug as well. Drug users looking for a high will crush Ritalin into a powder and snort it like cocaine, or inject it like heroin. It then has a much more powerful effect on the body. It causes severe headaches, anxiety, paranoia, and delusions.

Source

http://medicines5.blogspot.com/2010/05/ritalin-effect.html

By: conner

conner — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:23:20 +0000

fuck psychiatrists. The majority of them are drug-whores. Modern psychiatrist merely throw pills down your throat to solve depression. Not to mention their arrogance as medical professionals. They go through med school being able to pass courses. But nothing regulates their ability to communicate with a patient. This skill cant be taught. These social retards look down upon their patients. Fucking arrogant shits.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:24:19 +0000

Here is why they are torturing everyone they can get their hands on. We are born into a world that forces its ideals onto us from the day we are born. We are shaped and molded by those around us until we have no more ability to follow our own heart but are instead slaves to popular opinion, this is other wise called the “looking glass self”. These people are morons, ignoramuses and the like who have seized control over the United States and argue back and forth with other morons and ignoramuses who see things oppositely. Now some people manage to break free from the status quo pattern of brainwashing and find many diverse experiences which cause their right brain to develop. The right brain is other wise known as the soul and it serves as a moral anchor which the morons and ignoramuses, the left brain dominates, have no access to other than that of which everyone received in their one size fits all cultural development that made them idiots in the first place. So we have a bunch of idiots who attack people who develop through diverse experiences. It is the knowledge of wisdom of what is good that is gained by the so called mentally ill, that conflicts with the common weal of the ignoramuses, that causes distress in individuals. this is obviously worsened greatly by psychiatry and psychologists labeling and stigmatizing everyone who develops their right brain. Many if not all people who have developed their right brain need to develop their left brain and in doing so they may express themselves rather than keeping their stress bottled up inside. The left brained people need diverse experiences to free their minds and open their eyes. Most of all negativity has no place in nature and it is alien to humanity so practicing virtue and learning and understanding what love means will ultimately help both the idiots and their stigmatized victims.

By: ton

ton — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:51:37 +0000

yyyoooooouuuuuuuu suck!

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:24:51 +0000

I agree with you, except the crack about Christianity.

By: Regent Exeter

Regent Exeter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:39:24 +0000

language interferes with the truth in odd ways – for instance MURDERED spelt backwards rhymes with CEREBRUM and SYNAPSES spelt backwards rhymes with MENTALIS – other languages have similar semantic cookies.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:26:27 +0000

The drug companies are turing us into zombies. BRAINSSSS…

By: scrambledsos on youtube

scrambledsos on youtube — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:22:08 +0000

Also, the moment you say you can’t go to work, you get a diagnosis faster than a burger at McD’s.

By: scrambledsos on youtube

scrambledsos on youtube — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:18:50 +0000

Celexa is an antidepressant that has been implemented for years…but neither the company that makes it, or anyone else, knows how it works. Sound like anything mentioned above?

By: Encefalus

Encefalus — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:04:51 +0000

I think you’ve hit on some interesting points there! That’s a good comment!

By: WTF

WTF — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:53:43 +0000

OK, let’s cut this to the quick.

The problem with psychiatry is that it issues a *subjective* diaganosis, with no method of discerning a false positive. Then goes on to prescribe “cures” that may or may not be worse than the problem, while at the same time stigmatizing the “diagnosed” individual.

Of course in the 70’s psychiatry was dying… then the APA got in bed with the drug companies and cute things like Thorazine and Prozac… and voila… when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Take this example. Someone doesn’t want to touch a public bathroom door handle. OCD or is the individual just correct that public bathroom door handles are filthy?

Another example…

Shrink 1: “Does it take so much time it interferes with your life”?

Poor Patient 1: “Well yes I have to work and can’t keep up with all the washing of my hands I feel is needed based on the facts”.

Shrink 1: “You have OCD, we have some SSRI and response therapy for that”
(I.E. we can train you to be a good worker bee and get your ass back to work.)

Shrink 2: “Does it take so much time it interferes with your life”?

Poor Patient 2: “Well, no I don’t have to work. I just want my stuff clean and it takes a lot of time. It’s driving me nuts that people don’t respect my things.”.

Shrink 2: “You should discuss these issues with those around you.”

In short the criteria, “Interferes with you functionality” depends on who you are and what you life is like, as opposed to being about finding a broken part in the patient.

There oughta be a law against this sort of diagnosis method and stigma attachement.