What does an anti-psychotic do?

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When you get an infection, are you a weakling for taking a drug to lower your fever? If you break a leg, are you a weakling for wearing a cast?

I don't have "faith" in psych drugs: like I said before, Zyprexa is terrible. But the alternative, of losing control of your own mind, strikes me as more terrible.

Again, I took Zyprexa last night. Today I'm probably going to gain weight, have a harder time focusing, and tonight I'll have "restless leg syndrome" like crazy ... because, again, Zyprexa sucks.

But if I didn't take it, I know it can set off a spiral where I ultimately get super irritable, can't sleep, talk too fast, etc. For me, the trade-off of taking the drugs is worth it.

If you're getting headaches so bad you can't sleep, and you've tried the suggestions I quoted (drink more water, take some Advil, etc.) and they haven't worked, then taking care of yourself might mean stopping the drug now instead of in four days. I'm not advocating for taking or not ... I'm advocating for taking (good) care of yourself.

What if you never lost your mind? That's what they all say to give you the drugs to help you. This guy is "schizophrenic" so we must give him medicine. And they pretend to care but they don't know what the medicine does. It just matters that it is FDA approved like PRIME and then even children can get it. In my opinion these psychiatrists and therapists have no idea what they are doing. They are just pretending to help you, giving you more prescriptions. If they didn't give you any prescriptions, they would just be called psychologists. You know, the guys who listen to you and try to give solutions without setting you on drugs.

But no we must give drugs to children. Was I not a child at 16 years old? If I knew what it does and that it was painful or impossible to come off from, I would have never agreed to take it. It is just a scam in my opinion. The entire dsm classifications in psychiatry is a scam to put people on drugs legally.