It's not ok to diagnose people and prOscribe medications.

[unsunghero]

Watched the first video. The guy is immediately wrong. Psychiatrists are not looking for damage to brain tissue, otherwise known as organic damage. That is wrong. For one, a NEUROLOGIST looks for that, and they do so with a CAT scan

Psychiatrists use things such as how a person presents (their affect, their behaviors when speaking, etc), along with their answers to verbal questions during an evaluation as indicators of CHEMICAL IMBALANCE. This cannot be detected with a scan and has nothing to do with damage to brain tissue. In fact, if brain tissue IS damaged, such as with a TBI, psych medications can often have little benefit, because these are meant to correct chemical levels in the brain. Not to say they never are a benefit, but for someone with a TBI, they may have very limited benefit

[starkind]

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

Watched the first video. The guy is immediately wrong. Psychiatrists are not looking for damage to brain tissue, otherwise known as organic damage. That is wrong. For one, a NEUROLOGIST looks for that, and they do so with a CAT scan

Psychiatrists use things such as how a person presents (their affect, their behaviors when speaking, etc), along with their answers to verbal questions during an evaluation as indicators of CHEMICAL IMBALANCE. This cannot be detected with a scan and has nothing to do with damage to brain tissue. In fact, if brain tissue IS damaged, such as with a TBI, psych medications can often have little benefit, because these are meant to correct chemical levels in the brain. Not to say they never are a benefit, but for someone with a TBI, they may have very limited benefit

There's no such thing as chemical imbalance. People have shitty lives. Shitty diets. Get soaked in cortisol and treated like shit. Get prescribed meds that stress their body more and their lives, diets, habits remain shitty. They lose their ability to cope or people don't believe them when they're really being abused, and they fucking snap.

No one corrects their diet. Or teaches them meditation. Or helps them get out of the abusive situation.

[unsunghero]

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

There's probably a million reasons she was having a psychotic break. Pretty hard to judge from here. Maybe she was abused and given antidepressants and no one addressed that abuse so she kept upping the dose just to make it to school or work or whatever. And there's some actual root reason for her paranoia even if her parents aren't actually imposters.

The thing is you can't just proscribe meds and expect ppl to be OK. Even if the people have brain injuries or are really out of touch with reality. Giving them energy pills + zombie pills which dampen empathy because bipolar looks great on paper is a great way to wind up with a homicide or suicide. Or both.

I blame the ignorance of people for the bad news stories.

Even sick people 7 out of 10 times aren't really looking forward to suicide murders. Yet here we are, we treat them like animals without going "why"

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

There's no such thing as chemical imbalance. People have shitty lives. Shitty diets. Get soaked in cortisol and treated like shit. Get prescribed meds that stress their body more and their lives, diets, habits remain shitty. They lose their ability to cope or people don't believe them when they're really being abused, and they fucking snap.

No one corrects their diet. Or teaches them meditation. Or helps them get out of the abusive situation.

There absolutely are chemical imbalances. I have seen medications work wonders on people

I have had many people suicidal in the middle of psychotic break thank me weeks later after they were stabilized on medications for saving their life

Don’t attempt to expand your personal experience to the population at large. Not saying your experiences aren’t true, but they do not apply to everyone

[Cecily]

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

There absolutely are chemical imbalances. I have seen medications work wonders on people

I have had many people suicidal in the middle of psychotic break thank me weeks later after they were stabilized on medications for saving their life

Don’t attempt to expand your personal experience to the population at large. Not saying your experiences aren’t true, but they do not apply to everyone

Just because the medications do what you intend for them to do doesn't mean chemical imbalances exist. Psych meds come with a slew of life altering side effects and don't for minute think that just because no one prescribes "halodol" anymore doesn't mean that haldol isn't a first choice medication used in inpatient facilities. Tardive dyskinesia is one of the *drug-induced and permanent* extrapyramidal side effects of long term antipsychotic use. The others come sooner, and it's not just "halodol" causing it. Shit makes me so angry. This personal is clearly insane, let's tweak all their neurotransmitters and see if that stops it. Fuck what happens to them if they're quiet.

B-52 is a common chemical restraint in the psych ward.
50mg Benadryl, 5mg Haloperidol, 2mg Ativan IM

Now do they give the benadryl because it's a sedative, or do they give it because it's an offlabel drug to counter extrapyradmial side effects?

[unsunghero]

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

Just because the medications do what you intend for them to do doesn't mean chemical imbalances exist. Psych meds come with a slew of life altering side effects and don't for minute think that just because no one prescribes "halodol" anymore doesn't mean that haldol isn't a first choice medication used in inpatient facilities. Tardive dyskinesia is one of the *drug-induced and permanent* extrapyramidal side effects of long term antipsychotic use. The others come sooner, and it's not just "halodol" causing it. Shit makes me so angry. This personal is clearly insane, let's tweak all their neurotransmitters and see if that stops it. Fuck what happens to them if they're quiet.

B-52 is a common chemical restraint in the psych ward.
50mg Benadryl, 5mg Haloperidol, 2mg Ativan IM

Yeah it’s used in a shot meant to sedate an escalated person. I’ve always known that. This won’t give someone something like TD