I came across this site unintentionally and as someone who suffers from bipolar disorder and has done for over 10 years I found the views on conventional medication very interesting and would like to express my own opinion. I know a lot of people who take medication for various mental disorders having been sectioned many times myself. What can I say....... Yes, stopping your medication without weaning yourself off it will probably cause you to become 'unwell' again, depending upon how long you have been taking the medication. The longer you have been taking it the longer it will take to wean yourself off it. Yes, the medication can cause hallucinations. I was initially diagnosed with post natal depression and didn't experience psychosis untill I was prescribed prozac. I'm not sure if I would have experienced psychosis later anyway. I think I might be schitzophrenic but I don't tell my doctor that, no chance. I know a lot of people on medication and some of them are like downs syndrome children- too much medication. Have a healthy fear of your psychiatrist because your worst nightmare could become reality. If you think something harmful then you should say something. The more it carries on you may not come out of it. I don't think evil things, just crazy harmless daydreams. Sometimes you just have to let things go - a bad childhood, abusive partner, men who hurt you, parents who desert you, people who know how to push your buttons. Stay far from badness. Don't dwell on the past, brush it out of your house and don't let it in. I don't advise you taking my route as I attempted suicide many times, even tried to hang myself when they took my little girl, my brain doesn't stop untill I take my medication at night. 4 years of constant medication and I find my main problems are coming to terms with everything that happened, my little girl, the friends who disappeared, being talked about, the ill treatment in hospital, being treated like a child (still), walking around for years doped up, out of my mind, crazy not knowing and now I'm afraid to say it but I really do get crazy thoughts but I do realize that they are crazy but not evil, funny thoughts really, my own little world, but not helpful now because I have a friend. Not violent towards anyone, but might have said some nasty things to nasty people. I have just learned for my own sanity to accept not very much in terms of quality of life, acceptance and compassion and guess what things are changing. Sad isn't it. I put myself down all the time, laugh at myself and do you know what......IT WORKS. Well, it works for them and if it works for them it works for me because they dont lock me up. I still get bad looks and I'm still not 100% sure what is real from what is not because i take my medication like a good little girl (although I am on a better medication now and my psychiatrist is the best Iv ever had). If put myself down noone can really bring me down. Well, they can but, in a strange way it gives me control because then I can deal with it in my own time not when I'm exposed and vulnerable. Armour you could call it. My psychiatrist says I am vulnerable that's why I have to take medication. In the meantime I have space and the freedom to work out my complex escape plan. The journey back to normality. Haven't quite figured that one out yet. When he said I was vulnerable, I listened, because I realised I was, I'm too open and people take advantage. So I'm learning to be more closed which is easy now I HAVE A FRIEND. MEDICATION DOES NOT CURE MENTAL DISORDERS. TIME, FRIENDSHIP, REASSURANCE, SPACE, GOD
AND FREEDOM DOES. Thank the Lord I have found a TRUE friend I wouldn't be here without her.
If you know someone who is going through the initial stages of mental disorder do not send them to the doctor. The doctor will not cure them he will just send them on a psychadelic trip which one day they will have to deal with as well as the disorder. The trip is worse than the disorder for the person involved and they may not survive it. Many people who suffer take their own lives.
EXTRA MEGA VITAMINS, LISTENING, EXPLAINING THAT WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING, (FEELINGS AND HALLUCINATIONS) MAY BE REAL BUT ARE NOT GOOD, EXERCISE, REAL FAMILY SUPPORT, REAL INCLUSION IN YOUR LIFE, HUGS, LOTS OF WATER, NO STRESS, A LITTLE LAUGHTER, YOU MAY SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
To the lady who posted the original message you have to make the choice yourself. I couldn't look after my daughter on the medication I was on. So I didn't take it and got ill. I sent her to her fathers mother, we didn't have nothing to do with him or them before because I thought they was bad, but i sent her so she wouldn't see my illness, Iv never neglected my little girl, well they went to social services and social services said she wouldn't have a stable life with me. I see my little girl but its not enough I know she is very brave but I don't know she is alright unless i am there. I feel sick when I see my little girl not getting the life she deserve, I know this. How do you recover from that? I'v got to go now and take my medication. Whatever you do be careful, maybe you could get a second opinion from a private doctor.
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