Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on August 15, 2014, at 20:55:27
In reply to Re: my chemical restraining occurred outpatient » LostBoyinNC45, posted by Phillipa on August 12, 2014, at 22:35:30
Nothing. He talked like it was candy or something and was a wonder vitamin to me or something. Several months later when I confronted him about it and flat out asked him (was on Remeron by then, which saved my *ss by giving me some decent sleep), he admitted the real reason he put me on a chemical restraint. I still remember him saying to me, "murder is not acceptable." I walked out of his office so angry and stunned by the realization of what he had done to me with that drug, hell a car could have probably come up and hit me.
Right after that was when I sought out a second opinion and quickly fired the "Pdoc."
They were low dose risperdal sample packs my Pdoc at that time gave me. If I remember right, they were 1 mg packs, he told me to cut them in half every night and take half a mg at bedtime.
Looking back on it, I find it weird he trusted me to "take a knife which is a potentially dangerous weapon and cut the 1 mg risperdal pill in half." More psychiatric stupidity.
I never had a prescription of the stuff, never saw a pharmacist regarding risperdal.
> If you put the pill in your mouth you must have gotten a prescription for the meds and even if a sample there was a med profile included with the medication. So you did it to you. Did you ask the pharmacist what you were taking and possible side effects? Back then more than likely a lot of the side effects of long term use were not as yet known. Phillipa ps when were the atypicals approved year wise?
What I know now, I would have called up the local District Attorney's office and requested to have some sort of hearing or investigation into the psychiatrist's use of low dose risperdal on me for "chemical restraint." I would have pushed real, real hard to have that Pdoc arrested for battery with a prescription drug and misleading me, not giving me informed consent. I dont think the civil law approach (litigation/psychiatric malpractice) is good enough or appropriate to stop these sorts of activities. I believe the underlying threat of possible criminal conviction and jail time is the only thing that will stop the psychiatric stupidity that goes on.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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