Posted by Christ_empowered on April 7, 2014, at 10:27:18
If you have amphetamines w/o an Rx, you go to jail, maybe prison, you'll probably be court ordered into some sort of "treatment." Have an Rx? You must have ADH-Depressio-Whatever-The-F*ck, right? Right.
My meds help me. I just wanna put that out there, before I start rambling. Abilify, in particular, has been a real godsend.
But...what if I were court ordered to be injected with...something (around here, probably Prolixin) ? Almost happened. Why didn't it? White, male, no criminal history, upper middle class people behind him. These aren't *psychiatric* issues; they're social issues, demographic issues. And yet...they saved me (along with, I believe, God Himself) from a life in what Szasz would call "Psychiatric Slavery."
OK. Freakishly high % of kids in foster care and/or on Medicaid are doped to the gills. What gives? And...how can a kid who's been on neuroleptics since age 3 or whatever possibly function as someone who's been drug free (save perhaps Ritalin or Adderall for the more comfy classes) possibly deal with life?
Ugh. I just wish there was a way to find...if not "middle ground" then...a third, viable option...between Szasz (no insanity defense, its all BS, secular humanistic libertarianism) and the more damaging, oppressive practices we see in modern day psychiatry. Ugh.
I used to be into Soteria House. Now, I think tranquilizers (in my case, plus Orthomolecular) are really, really helpful...IF they work for the patient and IF psychosocial factors are addressed. You can't medicate away poverty, misery, despair, right?
I'm blessed. Upper middle class family behind me, 2-3 clean, modern meds, nice place to live, hope and a possible future. Yes, good...for me.
I've experienced the other end of it. P!ss your people off and you just might get electroshocked. Seriously. I shouldn't have survived.
Just ramnbling...
...your thoughts?
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