Colin, I'm happy for you that you are able to takenope. it is not my business what other people do. I would recommened tho that people find out as much as they can about their illness and the treatments.
care of yourself without medication. Many people can -
Patti Duke is one of them. If you haven't read her
autobiography, I'd recommend it. She had a very weird
childhood.
However, medication does work very well for some
people and I'm sure you're not implying that no one
needs medication.
Not all symptoms are the same either-I was never into thinking i was soemone esle or paranoid. I was violent on two occasions-on both osccasions i was pumped full of Chlorpromazine(Largactil). It is a truly vile drug with terrible side effects. I had cirrhosis from it. I was not told it was the drug that caused it till i found that out for myself. I knew I didn't drink much at that time so I found out what i could about the drugs I was on. It was then I lost trust in the medical people. They lied to me. I was in hospital for weeks, sick, two biiopsies etc and they never said a word. I was ill for a long time. Maybe things are different here. All that ever happened to me was hospitaliization in horrid wards with sometimes violent patients an staff. no treatment other than drugs. If one refused drugs, one was held down and forced to take them. I could have ended up in there for life as it is a new shrink took over my ward after a year and she released me and urged me to do everything I could to avoid flling into that trap again. She eventually went to the USA as she couldn't stand the system here.
Pyschiatric wards are not the cosy caring places people like to think they are. A few years after this experience I was contacted about one of the staff who was being investigated for cruelty. I was asked why i didn't say anyhting at the time. I did, i replied, but you lot didn't believe me and upped my meds instead. This sort of thing was not just confiend to me ward but to hospitals all over the uk.
Oh, and another thing, here in the UK a person with a psychitric illness is considered an unreliable witness in court so people get away with a lot of things.
I found this out after a 3 day interview regarding one of my ex teachers who was child pornographer. Even tho the poilice knew of my history, they still put me thru it and then told me they could not use me as a witness. the moral of the story being that if you are going to fuck someone over, do it really well so they are damaged and then no one will believe them. So this man has got away with his crimes and may still be abusing children.
bw
colin
