tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post9075958256326761380..comments2023-04-27T19:32:15.593+10:00Comments on Not a chemical imbalance: Diagnosed schizophrenic… so let’s kill the catInitially NOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13073263215177071259noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post-43781840682959641872013-03-28T14:34:33.692+11:002013-03-28T14:34:33.692+11:00More spam Adam? I find you very unagreeable. I'...More spam Adam? I find you very unagreeable. I'm using the word 'unagreeable' because it was used on me, as in, 'you are unagreeable to treatment' and 'therefore you cannot give informed consent' and therefore we must stick pricks in your butt and torture you with are management chemicals. Management? When someone is not in anyway violating anyone else why is there need to use chemical strait-jackets? As to chemical imbalances, that's what you get after you've been stuck with the psych nurse's needle, horrific chemicals in your body causing your body to send pain signals. I do not appreciate you backing up the people who tortured me Adam. I think what you're doing is rather nasty.Initially NOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13073263215177071259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post-71048541621396800082013-03-28T11:18:59.263+11:002013-03-28T11:18:59.263+11:00Sometimes Chemical Imbalances are not always the ...Sometimes <a href="http://www.improvehealthinfo.com/chemical-imbalances" rel="nofollow">Chemical Imbalances </a> are not always the cause and it can definitely be the triggers, I agree with you. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318226760438191331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post-7348667383421049712012-10-26T17:56:14.621+11:002012-10-26T17:56:14.621+11:00Appreciate you comment. Psychiatrists always talk ...Appreciate you comment. Psychiatrists always talk about finding the drug that is right for you. I haven't found that and have, like you, been through many, usually unwillingly. And this has harmed me, not helped me.<br /><br />You might want to be aware that they can forcefully drug you as an adult in Australia, if they deem you require it:<br />Criteria for Involuntary Admission<br />Section 8(1) of the Act now states:<br /><br />A person may be admitted to and detained in an approved mental health service as an involuntary patient in accordance with the procedures specified in the Act only if-<br /><br />(a) the person appears to be mentally ill; and<br /><br />(b) the person’s mental illness requires immediate treatment and that treatment can be obtained by admission to and detention in an approved mental health service; and<br /><br />(c) because of the person’s mental illness, the person should be admitted and detained for treatment as an involuntary patient for his or her health or safety (whether to prevent a deterioration in the person’s physical or mental condition or otherwise) or for the protection of members of the public; and<br /><br />(d) the person has refused or is unable to consent to the necessary treatment for the mental illness; and<br /><br />(e) the person cannot receive adequate treatment for the mental illness in a manner less restrictive of the person’s freedom of decision and action.<br /><br />I don't want the law to force the use drug treatments anymore. Unless a person is one of the few who wants this kind of drug regime, forcefully drugging people is really dangerous and unhelpful.<br /><br />For me, I need to make certain that I never again appear 'unwell'. It's also important for me to know my friends are people who would never call the CAT team on me, because I seem 'unwell'. Friends are people who are willing to talk through things and let me know of support groups that aren't as fearful of altered states of consciousness as psychiatry and the rest of society. Initially NOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13073263215177071259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post-12636339862922788002012-10-25T06:32:37.259+11:002012-10-25T06:32:37.259+11:00Thank you for this really interesting post. I don&...Thank you for this really interesting post. I don't know much about Schizophrenia and while I have met schizophrenics it's one of those things somewhat shrouded in mystery because it still holds such stigma and people don't really challenge the psychiatric concept of schizophrenia.<br />Also, my diagnosis is very different from yours, yet for the most part I feel the same way about drugging. I've been on approximately nine different medications over the years, with almost no benefit but some cognitive damage. In the beginning I was naive and willing to try anything, but over the years that changed as I saw either a complete lack of results or bad results.<br />Psychiatrists love to prescribe drugs as the solution and rarely look beyond the very standardized idea of how the mentally ill should be managed. For me one drug has its place but the rest seemed to screw with whatever is going on in my head more than the condition in its natural state. Seroquel was the worst. I don't know what they were thinking prescribing that particular drug "off-label" for an anxiety disorder. It isn't logical imo, and it can be very damaging.<br /><br />Luckily my illness and status as an adult means that I can refuse to be drugged anymore. Which is exactly what I've done, excluding the one that actually helps me while I try to work things out from another angle. Unfortunately I know adults who are not aware that they have a choice and end up chugging back medications that can be more damaging than the condition itself.portal314http://portal314.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635777611303207747.post-2783007745587446512012-10-20T22:33:10.189+11:002012-10-20T22:33:10.189+11:00Hey NO, great piece! and a solid take on the real ...Hey NO, great piece! and a solid take on the real stuff you had to endure by an institutionalised vested interes group feeding on society at the expense of those it doesn't suit or it is harmful upon. Keep up the charge!! you've got a valuable contribution and you're making it strongly. And congratulations on the great book deal (Naked Ladies); london publishers do not sign writers up 'UNLESS'they are very talented!<br />Go Well<br />GlennGlenn Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08893518779973718234noreply@blogger.com