schizophrenia

Then I hope that you never become susceptible to a mental illness Colenzo because it can happen to anyone at any age

 

That's really mature, I applaud your efforts in your reply

 

RxHead kind of backed my opinion. They will diagnose you with anything if you let them and they will put you on medication for it. There are so many people in the world right now on medication they do not need. To beat it all, we are paying for most of them with money we make! I'm sensitive to the needs of others, I really am, but I don't like the idea of paying for uneeded medication. I can hardly pay for my medicine if I get sick. Got off topic there a minute.. sorry.

I do understand that there are some people that need something, but I'm not sure what that something should be. I know I would try everything else I could find before I let them put me on a medication that makes me not feel, have no emotions. The only people I've ever seen on high doses of these sorts of pills have been like zombies. I'd rather be crazy than be like that. To me.. that IS crazy.

 

Your about as 'insane' as the people on jackass ... great name for you as well .. jackass.

 

yeah l'd fire the bullet at you

 

it depends if to what extent they can function without meds

 

I agree totally. The thing is for me and many others I know, the Mental Health System Where I am is like the song 'Hotel California' to words "You can check out any time you'd like, but you can never leave"

'Letting' them put people on medications is something comlicated in a way. I signed in there for help. The first day I seen no Doctor or anything and around bedtime the Nurse called out my name. I asked her what she wanted she said she had medication for me? I had a little cup shoved at me with a blue capsule in it. I asked her what it was and why I should take it? She said it was a sleeping pill and I 'had' to take it as it was given to everyone on a standing order. It was Dalmane 30mg, I told her I did not have trouble sleeping she said "just take it".

So then I seen the Doctor for like 4 Minutes and later that day a Nurse came to me and told me she had an injections she needed to give me. I said for what? She said "Because the dr ordered it" I said what is it? She sighed and Said it was Haldol Deconate. I said and? She said it was a medication that would be timed released and remain in my body for up to 6 weeks. I refused this injection and said I wanted to try short acting oral pill form....Next day I was Informed if I did not accept the Long acting injection I would go the next day to court and have a Forced Medication Order/Temporary Court Commitment for 90 days and They would hold me down/restrain me and give me the injection by force. I then got the injection which I belive forever changed me forever.

When a person signs in Voulentary there, You can sign yourself out, only you can not leave. The Doctor has up to (5) days to say in his opinion you 'can' leave and in that 5 days they take you to court and the judge has never in my experience even gave the patient a chance to speak and then simply rules in favor of the Mental Healt system and placed on a Court Commitment for 90 days then go back to court and they either say its all good after 90 days or they say he needs a longer permenant commitment for a year in which they then "OWN" you and say where you will live, what you will do and such. It is all so complicated. One of those traps of damn if I do and damn if I dont.

I just pretend to agree so I won't go to court and dont take half of the meds.

Anyone thinking of 'getting help' think twice. Maybe three times.

 

hmmm that is interesting and scary.

 

I did not vote. The reason being that in today's society we over medicate for so many things that people instead should just be told to solve and move on from. We want our cake and to eat it too but that comes with a price of being drugged.

There will be times in life that there is stress and we need to deal with what causes it rather than to medicate it.

The exception is those with chemical imbalances that are able to be charted and those usually do benefit from medical intervention and the right balance of drugs....

So while I do support medication for those needing it....I also see a society that would rather drug than solve.

 

I did not vote. The reason being that in today's society we over medicate for so many things that people instead should just be told to solve and move on from. We want our cake and to eat it too but that comes with a price of being drugged.

There will be times in life that there is stress and we need to deal with what causes it rather than to medicate it.

The exception is those with chemical imbalances that are able to be charted and those usually do benefit from medical intervention and the right balance of drugs....

So while I do support medication for those needing it....I also see a society that would rather drug than solve the issue of why they are not coping in a society that expects them to. Mediacation alone is usually not the answer and just too damn easy....people are lost through the medication route that need not be too many times.

 

heat, i understand and agree with you but i truly meant this for the people that TRULY could be benefited from it.

 

I hear you and do agree as there are those that do benefit from medications....and for those I am really thankful that there are a vast amount of medications that can help them.

For those that do not need them and instead need to learn to cope with life and all that it dishes out....I feel compassion but also feel pity as they only lead half a life doped on meds to make them feel good when the really will never do so until they resolve what in life makes them unable to cope.

Sad cycle that is not only accepted but also condoned by Medical practitioners as it is far easier to prescribe than to do the in depth to solve.

 

I know until they got ahold of me I had alot of issues. No med's. The Meds never make or made me 'feel good' God, I wish they had done so. I went there with my Private Health Insurance paying them for my approved 30 day stay. Needless to say 5 days past the 30 they discharged me to a group home. The insurance mailed me a check or a copy of the check they cut for them a check for $9,976 and them I am told I still owed $5,000+ dollar's after that!

Please, I was LOCKED in there forced to take all kinds of sedative medications falling asleep in the hallways on the floor for hours and they could not wake me. The food sucked, I could not smoke, I had to sit through 'Group' which consisted of one of the tech's reading articles from the newspaper for an hour.

I once after being zombified by them was on my way to bed, as you had to be in bed at 11pm with a styrofoam cup of ice water (the only beverage available in between meals) because the shots and pills made my mouth so dry at night. The came in there as a group of like 6 orderlys and told me to 'hand over the ice water, not allowed in rooms" I still was fighting the meds and doing my best to remain in my own mind frame, so I jumped up on top of the heater thing in the window ledge. I said to them "Leave me the fuck alone! It is only water, what the hell is wrong with me having water at my side? they just kept saying "hand over the ice water" So I said "Fuck off, and get out or you will all be wearing it" I seen the Isolation Room being prepared acrossed the way from my doorway. Being prepared for me as I wanted ice water.

that was the beginning of the end. just one of so many things. btw I got a nice shotglass of Thorazine elixyr in my choice of juice or water.. HA! I did not have a choice in the Thorazine only a choice in what they would mix it with...all of this over a damned fucking glass of ice water. I've heard people in hell want ice water, well people with cotton mouth, not the kind asked for in hospitals want some iced water too, it just didn't happen that night.