Posted by Lamdage22 on March 2, 2013, at 5:26:35
In reply to Re: Psychiatry destroyed my life! » Lamdage22, posted by Tomatheus on February 27, 2013, at 22:17:02
Well, the signature is old..
I just cant see how a non-functioning is an illness. Yes, my goal was to say be cautious about what you are doing with these meds. And to get some consolation as well.
When i sought psychiatric treatment, i had somewhat of more social anxiety than others and i was a little depressed. Now i am diagnosed with every disorder known to man. Lots things definitely got worse.
The things ive said while on medication are just completely out of character and i have social damage from it.
Thomatheus, we have similar issues.. the treatment of my deppression resulted in some psychotic episodes.
Im thinking about going back to St. Johns Wort and Homeopathic treatment.. as i dont remember any negative effects from those.. and i made it through high school with St Johns Wort.
For me it was also that i did hide behind my so called illnesses. When i read on the internet about Medication and all that i started to let myself go.. to think: "Its an imbalance in my brain.. i can just let myself go and wait for the right pill to fix my problem". Its a nice world that psychiatry allowed me to live in. Unfortunately, it cant live up to the expectations.
Another thing i cant understand: If psychiatry says that too much dopamine results in psychosis.. Then why do i have symptoms of LOW dopamine when i am medication free? Things aint that easy.
I think of psychiatry as more of a belief system than science. Bite me :)
> > But hey.. making good profit off of desperate peoples feelings. Sitting together, deciding that almost all human behavior is a disease. YOU are the disease if you believe in this b*llsh*t.
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> Lamdage22,
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> If you don't believe that mental illnesses are real, then why do you state that you're very depressed with severe PTSD in your signature?
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> I can understand and even identify with psychiatric medications not working well and even making some problems worse, especially in the long run. Taking out your frustration on psychiatry is understandable, as far as I'm concerned, when the very treatments that are supposed to help us sometimes make matters worse or create new problems.
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> It sounds like you regret ever having received psychiatric treatment. Am I correct in guessing this? While I can see why someone in your position would regret ever having sought psychiatric treatment, I cannot say the same about my case. You say that psychiatry destroyed your life, but for me, it's prolonged sleep deprivation that most likely destroyed my life by causing a debilitating fatigue. Psychiatry attempted to repair the damage, as did psychology. Both failed, and psychiatry may have made matters worse by possibly contributing to the development of psychotic symptoms. Am I unhappy with the way I've responded to psychiatric treatment? You bet. I took a gamble by seeking psychiatric treatment, and I certainly haven't won. But would I have been able to live with a decision to have completely sidestepped psychiatric treatment and just accept life with a debilitating fatigue? I don't think that I would have. Maybe you only consider your life to be destroyed now that you've received psychiatric treatment, but when your life is already destroyed by the symptoms of a chronic illness, you need to act, and you need to take chances. That's what I did, and things haven't turned out for the best, but I think it would have been foolish of me to have done things differently.
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> Just my opinion...
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> Tomatheus
Bipolar, mixed and mostly (very) depressed. Severe PTSD
Inclination toward "delusions" of persecutions mostly by my father.
Parnate 20, T3 60, Agomelatine 25, Geodon 20, Melperone 50
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