Posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on March 28, 2007, at 13:46:19
In reply to Re: the reason why suffer on meds and feel down mo » Jeroen, posted by yxibow on March 25, 2007, at 13:41:02
I'm on geodon right now. 240mg split into 4 doses a day. I prefered the effects of seroquel, but it was making me transition from healthy to overweight to obese at an alarming rate.
So, why am I on "antipsychotics"? because I have symptoms. I have uncontrollable mood swings and believe it or not these "antipsychotics" are now approved for use for folks with bipolar disorder.
But why am I on antipsychotics? I've never been dx'd with bipolar or schizophrenia.
It's because I have symptoms. Things like feeling like my consciousness has been fragmented into a half-dozen pieces each with their own tormented voice and an inability to stop a movie of violent flashbacks and other products of a less-than-well mind. And if seroquel and geodon can make those intrusive thoughts and flashbacks more manageable, then I won't live the life of a terrorized recluse.
I have health insurance from the US government, but I do not seek treatment from public health providers.
I would just like to suggest that APsychotics should be thought of as mood stabilizers and in some cases antidepressants (i.e. seroquel). The unfortunate label of the drug as an "antipsychotic" suggests that I must be psychotic if I take it. That is simply not the case.
Don't we have enough stigma in this lifetime without attaching stigma to categories of drugs? Can we accept that each person on psychobabble has their own personal reasons for/against taking a particular drug, and that there is no drug that is inherently bad? Perhaps the match between person and drug is bad, but that doesn't make the drug itself evil. It just means that things didn't work out. We are lucky that there are so many options nowadays. So many drugs, so little time...
-Ll
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