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Ragna Raven's avatar

WHAT YOU MEAN "PSYCHIATRIC CARE"?

WHAT CARE?

Sojournizen's avatar

Hey as a patient since 92 who was first prescribed as Sr I medication that led into a dopamine inhibitor that caused me nothing but harm it was my own behavior and my own Focus that got rid of some of those symptoms more so than the medication and such the duration of my quote ordeal under the false prescription of medications of like manner as they rotated with reactions of negative propensity to each variation and an overall dampening of my of my total cognitive abilities and dampening my access towards betterment in the medications effects alone 20 + years ago I argued against said medications being a mainstay citing that with proper neural restructuring using cognitive alterations such as lifestyle artistic expression basic things such as gardening getting into holistic comprehensive formative lifestyle adjustments diet exercise structuring in Gold fulfillment and proper therapeutic offsets of both physical emotional cognitive inclusion within a cultural integrative approach towards the differentiations that occur within the personification of individuals who are so affected in accordance to the imbalances that are originally exacerbated to the point of overload of an emotional drag or overwhelm that causes the mental capacity to fragment deregulate and fail as such I was ignored being a patient though I was categorized at that point in time as non psychotic though I was off medication for a year at that time point the diagnosis was conjugated by myself at the doctor's failure to come up with a proper point of reference to place me that was schizoid personality disorder yet I was dismissed from said Doctor and put in with another who promptly put me back on medications and I being stigmatized or institutionalized however you wish to put it took said medications on the assumptive evaluation of a professional that was the first of two occurrences of like manner this blatant ignorance that is taught and reinforced by doctors of assumptive knowledge is ridiculous and proponent of malpractice in a general sense of the matter and could be arguably treated with criminal propensity when a patient like myself now in his third year of non-antipsychotic treatment instituted by myself is still suffering because of another doctor in this third run of not taking such medications having aggressed me by readicting me to klonopin knowingly after a 25 year go and are withdrawal that lasted for 2 years which I was buying until starting to develop mold toxicity and developing aberration mass in my renal area of the liver which was what my dad perished up with the same sleeplessness as a symptomology In This Very house and being my non-biological father .

Dan Mage's avatar

RD Laing was able to treat patients who would normally have been given antipsychotics, and operated a group living situation for "seriously disturbed" individuals. I had the good fortune of participating in a discussion group with him, some psych students and faculty, and a few "patients, which I was one of, during my first abortive attempt at college. HE said that he believed people needed 3 things, 1. "Experiential Anarchy," the right to experience reality any way you choose. 2.Autorhythmia: Setting ones own time to go to sleep, wake up or for that matter get out of bed in the early AM hours and walk outside. I'm thinking about this because after having to take care of a minor emergency I found myself not ready to go back to bed. Ending up on the computer at 4:00 AM 3. Non violent behavior, the only thing that's not OK is to, for instance throw a cup of hot tea at someone. Exactly how he would handle such an incident in general was not discussed but he said something like "If you throw your teacup at me, I'll put my foot in your ass," (Or something like that, this was in 1986 and I even though I can often reconstruct conversations word for word, I can't with this one). A good time was had by all, and then Dr. Laing and the head of the psychology department, the late Dr. Edward Podvoll drank and did MDMA around town for three days.

About 14 years later, while making my way slowly out of a psychiatric unit inside a state prison system, I discussed non-drug treatments off record with one of the nurses and she agreed that it can be done, it just takes a lot more work(I was found after 9 months to be, like Homer Simpson once was, "not insane," just an annoying political extremist). Thomas Szasz believed that people who are unhappy are called "neurotic," people who are annoying, get the "psychotic" label. Drugs are given to treat the symptoms of persons coming in contact with the patient, less so than for the benefit of the patient. Diagnoses are made on the basis of subjective and almost mystically defined judgements, such as the patient's ability to show "non-bizarre behavior," and again treatment is ordered on the basis of the clinician's symptoms. As always, its ultimately about control.