Are psychiatric drugs developed for the comfort of hospital staff rather than patients?
I am a journalist who has made a very extensive journalistic research on psychiatry and mental health systems of the various countries for more than a decade. I’ll have a couple of questions to both mental health professionals and patients.
Why is that it is only hospital staff think that the patients in their care are better off with drugs if these drugs really help the patients suffering from mental illness? Why is that hospital staff do not even hesitate to invoke coercive methods to make patients take their drugs in psychiatric facilities? I mean if you have headache would you need anyone telling you you should take your pills? Is it because those drugs make patients more docile and hence make their work easier and more comfortable? Are they concerned about their own comfort rather than the well being of patients?
Also, there’re 2 posters here (lilith and ms kitty) who regularly jump into my questions by telling me that I should "take my meds like a good boy". What is the reason of this strange behaviour? Is infantilizing patients the common attitude of hospital staff towards patients in psychiatric facilities?
YA Junkie,
I am not biased. I am just a journalist who is trying to reveal the truth. BTW, I interviewed with the ones who are "treated" by exorcists as well in my journalistic research. They too were saying similar things with you. They were saying that they had been possessed by demons and this exorcist who treated them actually saved their lives. Should we believe to that without questioning it ?
ms kitty,
You say that in the US involuntary drugging of the patients is illegal
This is not true as this link below clearly suggests
http://www.isba.org/IBJ/oct03lj/p496.htm#I.
You say that psychiatric drugs are used for the comfort and health of the patient.
This is not true either as the link below suggests that in the long run they increase suicide risk by at least 68 times even in the mild cases.
http://www.rense.com/general29/ei.htm
If they make the patients comfortable and healthy then why do they commit or attempt to commit suicide?
I don’t know what you think about journalists. But we’re not just reporters who only make interviews. We, journalists can also work to increase public awareness about critical matters which may affect public and individual health. Psychiatry, psychiatric drugs, involuntary commitments and involuntary druggings are definitely within the scope of our profession as these are the issues which are very open to abuses.
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July 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I’m bi-polar, and 52. The psy doctors, are subjective idiots sometimes. In three minutes they will say that someone needs some heavy drug that is worse than the disorder, this is sick.
I was given a hevy drug by this psy dr./, and the side effects caused me to be in the hospital for 120 days. What an adventure, I brought the notion up, that I was okay before I took the topic medication, and the guy wrote in the medical record that I had this big arguement with him in the hallway.
Further, I was talkiing with someone, and I read the medical record later, and they wrote that I thought I had computer chips in my head.
THe weird fact is, the employees in the hospitals that appear to be the most active with helping people, use this ploy as a sick trick to cover up what they really do. I was told I was getting one shot to sleep )( a short acting drug) and they really gave me this 30-90 day anti phychosis drug, with all kinds of weird side effects, like being Frankstine.
The hospital staff has some good people, that have a hard time with the boss being an idiot.( Take the medication…be a good boy…stay here..its okay to spend a year with us…I got out..I stopped taking the medication that was causing the side effects of psychosis.
But, they sent this Phd. into the court, that said he was with me discussing issues, what a lier. I looked at him in court…he knew…they are a group, supported by others, its a mass.
If someone screws up, and gets to close to the truth, they put in with some weird people who masterbate -all-of-the-time, ( in the wide open) and/or that piss in the sink, or have aids and bleed in the bathroom. They the staff think this kinda stuff is funny, the normal staff look the other way, as to not get involved.. they have a very high turn over rate.see the socialogy cases of jailers there weird…look at germany, how regular people killed millions of jews..the world is s twisted place.
The supervisors, I really worked on just getting out. The pay phones in the ward cost for a collect call thousands my wife said. I was begging to get out, and the phones they have overcharge. The whole thing is mass crazy/cult.
July 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Actually, my best friend’s mother works in the psych ward. She’s a nurse. She says, sometimes the staff acts in a way, that is worse than the patients. I’m only fourteen, and I have ADD. I don’t understand most of this question.
July 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I think you may be right. What a very intriguing question to have been posited. I cannot answer your question myself although I think you already have come up with an answer. I eagerly await your article and conclusion.
Now it is time to support it with the hard facts.
July 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Doctors can make mistakes, and patients can make mistakes. However, the way you worded your question reveals you have an enormous bias against psychiatric meds.
I suffered from major depression for many years. I tried everything to improve my plight—psychotherapy, nutrition, biofeedback, acupuncture, homeopathy, etc., etc. Nothing I tried helped.
Finally, I went to a psychiatrist and asked to be put on medication. It took a while to get the right meds, but eventually the right combination of meds helped me enormously.
I owe a great deal to psychiatric meds. I also exercise about 6 days a week, I’m very careful about what I eat, and I attend a weekly support group for people with psych disorders. I also practice meditation or some form of relaxation daily.
The people in my support group have similar experiences as mine. Psychiatric drugs, when used judiciously, can be very helpful for some people. For other people, psych drugs don’t work that well. The brain is the most complex organ in the body. Scientists still don’t completely understand why some people are helped by psych drugs, while others are not helped.
EDIT: The meds I take make me more alert and energetic. They do not make me more docile, as your question suggested.
July 4th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Lets see if I can answer your question without offending you. Paychiatric drugs are used for the comfort and health of the patient! In the United States NO ONE can be forced to take any sort of medication, regardless of how out of their mind they are….. The advent of pyschtherapudic drugs has done away with witch trials, insane asylums, a huge population of "village idiots", AND has greatly reduced the percentage of suicude in the mentally ill. Life was miserable for the mentally ill before pharmacutical intervention… now we can actually have lives.
If I offended you before I am sorry….. You come across as one of the many many people who come on here talking bad about meds because they don’t want to take them when they should. I find it strange when someone has 2 accounts so he can answer his own questions (THAT makes any results you take from here biased!!) and it is against the rules to repeatedly ask the same question over and over again…. shall I report you as you did me?