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Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
I suggest we make sure we're getting proper nutrition.
Originally posted by PaganArchangel natural pharmacology
Originally posted by gentledissident
I suggest we make sure we're getting proper nutrition.
Originally posted by PaganArchangel natural pharmacology
I'm a fan of B vitamins. However, B complex vitamin pills seem to be imbalanced or have important omissions.
Originally posted by Maskirovka
If true, one in sixty-six is a disturbing number, to say the least. But why is it so high? I wonder about the figures in other Western states. I doubt they are as high. Sometimes it seems like Americans have this unique obsession with "fixing" psychological ailments that, often, don't even exist, as though it is unheard of for a person not to have a mental illness, and we approach a situation where psychosis is the norm. There is this strange obsession with overanalysing the psyche, a readiness to diagnose mental disturbances and then arbitrarily prescribe huge quantities of unnecessary psychomedication for a quick fix; or am I being harsh? And to be honest, we here in the UK are getting that way. The number of children being diagnosed with ADHD is skyrocketing. In my line of work I meet a lot of them. I would say that the vast majority of them do not have some mental problem. Couple poor parenting with a school system stripped of the means to discipline children--and no, I am not even talking about corporal punishment--and you end up with ill-behaved runts who simply don't give a damn about respecting anybody.
I don't think "mental illness" per se is on the rise. I think we, in the West, are simply getting lazier and lazier, and slowly losing all sense of self-responsibility.
Didn't want this to turn into a rant!edit on 21-7-2011 by Maskirovka because: Grammar...
Originally posted by whaaa
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Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.
Once reserved for hard-core, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest type of mental illnesses to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and absent minded elderly.
A recent story in Al Jazeera by James Ridgeway of Mother Jones illuminates the efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to get doctors prescribing medicines like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify to patients for whom the drugs were never intended.
Focusing on psychiatrists because they rely on subjective diagnoses, the drug reps have been so successful that they've changed the criteria for mental illness and disability payments. Ridgeway quotes former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell.
From my experience, 1 in 66 is a very conservative estimate. More like 50-50 imo; and rest assured my self diagnosis has determined that my boots aren't laced all the way to the top either. How's that for an obscure euphemism from the panhandle of Texas?
Anyway, the pharmaceutical industry has the American culture in its evil clutches by convincing Dr's to prescribe potent pills for basically nothing. Especially the practice of prescribing Ritalin for over active kids and sedatives for geriatrics that won't quit talking; Hardcore speed for fat people. It's obvious that people want immediate relief even from imagined maladies and the Doc's are all to happy to prescribe something; probably because they are heavily invested in the manufacture of drugs.
Well that's my short rant against the big pharma and pill pushers. I'm so worked up now that I need a Valium.
How's that for an obscure euphemism from the panhandle of Texas?
Medicating the children is especially sick and sad.
Originally posted by PaganArchangel this is normal behaviour for children, not a disease. Pharma in the US is creating a future full of PharmaZombies.
Originally posted by dolphinfan (well there is that whole ethanol scam.......)