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asked by: slam on December 30th, 2005
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Yup. Antipsychotic drugs are dangerous and they increase psychosis!

Antipsychotics should be prohibited! What are psychiatrist thinking ?????
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slam
replied on February 3rd, 2006
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Psychiatrist uses antipsychotics as a chemical lobotomy to the brain. Science now shows that antipsychotics shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain. The longer you stay on it, the harder to go off it. If you used it for awhile, it will become impossible to go off it. They become drug addicts with serious side effects. Psychiatrist uses antipsychotics really as a social control! Use antipsychotics no more than a month! After that,a psychiatrist should prescribe a psychologist.



Psychiatrist invented "schizophrenia" to describe people who are emotionally overwhelmed. Schizophrenia is a healing process of the brain once the brain could not process all the infomation. It is like a crash in a computer and schizophrenia is the rebooting of the computer.
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cloudedmind
replied on February 11th, 2006
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Slam, do you have schizophrenia or any type of mental illness? I wonder why you constantly tell people to stop taking their medication and how the medication is evil etc. Have you personally taken this type of medication?

Some people are seriously ill. Do you realise this? Do you realise how the medication they take is keeping them alive? Do you know what kind of damage you are doing telling people not to take their medication?

I think you are causing a lot of damage by condemning this medication.

I wonder why people like you frequent websites like this, and try to get people to become non med compliant.
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slam
replied on February 15th, 2006
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Cloudedmind,

i was diagnose with schizophrenia a year ago. I took geodon for almost six months, seroquel for a month, and risperdal for about three months. Now, I am completely off antipsychotics. It's been two months and I have no problems except for one side effect i'm still experiencing due to withdrawal. I'm experiencing brain cramps. I spent a month researching why this is happening. Science has proven that antipsychotics shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain and at the same time increases another area of the brain. I believe the antipsychotics rewire the brain and at the same time damages it. The brain cramps i'm feeling can be cause by blood circulation problem. It is because of this that the frontal lobe can shrink. Blood circulation is vital for health of the nervous system. Antipsychotics action is to block. What else does it block? With risperdal, one of the side effects is blood circulation problems. I am very angry.

I found out a few months ago, there was an alternative treatment to mental illness, if the illness is really an illness. Loren mosher, one of few psychiatrist, believes you can treat it without medication. So he begun the soteria project, treated first time people with schizophrenia. The results was very successful. Also, developing countries who cannot afford medication also did very good. If it is a brain desease, why then does the symptoms go away. Using medication will prolong the recovery and too long, you will never recover. It is the medication that causes the chemical imbalance.


There are a lot of books out that shows the dangers of psychiatric drugs. You just have to look for it. It is there. There are also books on people recovering from schizophrenia without dangerous medication. Soteria and dante's cure are good examples. Recovery is possible. Psychiatry will deny that but look at all the evidence. The illness could actually be only psychological, solved through psychotherapy alone. There is another option to medication. It probably is not fast acting like medication but it is a cure. Medication only mask the problem and damages the brain.
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curious_girl82
replied on February 17th, 2006
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slam wrote:
cloudedmind,

i was diagnose with schizophrenia a year ago. I took geodon for almost six months, seroquel for a month, and risperdal for about three months. Now, I am completely off antipsychotics. It's been two months and I have no problems except for one side effect i'm still experiencing due to withdrawal. I'm experiencing brain cramps. I spent a month researching why this is happening. Science has proven that antipsychotics shrinks the frontal lobe of the brain and at the same time increases another area of the brain. I believe the antipsychotics rewire the brain and at the same time damages it. The brain cramps i'm feeling can be cause by blood circulation problem. It is because of this that the frontal lobe can shrink. Blood circulation is vital for health of the nervous system. Antipsychotics action is to block. What else does it block? With risperdal, one of the side effects is blood circulation problems. I am very angry.

I found out a few months ago, there was an alternative treatment to mental illness, if the illness is really an illness. Loren mosher, one of few psychiatrist, believes you can treat it without medication. So he begun the soteria project, treated first time people with schizophrenia. The results was very successful. Also, developing countries who cannot afford medication also did very good. If it is a brain desease, why then does the symptoms go away. Using medication will prolong the recovery and too long, you will never recover. It is the medication that causes the chemical imbalance.



There are a lot of books out that shows the dangers of psychiatric drugs. You just have to look for it. It is there. There are also books on people recovering from schizophrenia without dangerous medication. Soteria and dante's cure are good examples. Recovery is possible. Psychiatry will deny that but look at all the evidence. The illness could actually be only psychological, solved through psychotherapy alone. There is another option to medication. It probably is not fast acting like medication but it is a cure. Medication only mask the problem and damages the brain.
it is nice to know there are people out there who feel this way.. I know someone who had been the "victim" of several different medications...Yes, some people do well with em, but I for one believe the s*** will cause more problems...This person I know became toxic from all the crap the so called "doctors" were making her take..She could have died from it...You know who saved her life? Her art therepist... But to be honest, I think americas mental health system sucks...There are very few docs who really truelly know what they are doing...
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slam
replied on February 17th, 2006
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Most people don't know how corrupt the system of psychiatry is in the states. The people are taking dangerous medications without knowing it. And if you ask if it is safe, they would lie in your face. Most of the people taking it don't really need it. There are a lot of people that's diagnose with schizophrenia and recovers. They diagnose people way to early. How can they fix the problem of the system, when you get expose to the medication so early? Thank god there are other countries that can set things right with their treatment. The most successful countries are the ones that cannot afford medication. The psychiatry in states ignores the results! Read "mad in america". The book goes through it very good.
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curious_girl82
replied on February 18th, 2006
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Will do... I have a 10 year old cousin who was diagnosed manic....He is already on a mind altering medication...This kid is 10 years old!!! Poor thing, when I see him, he just looks so empty..This is ridiculous!!
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slam
replied on February 18th, 2006
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I want to go back in the 'matrix'(blind). This real world is ugly. Once i've taken that blue pill, nobody warned me this would happen. The psychiatrists are the evil computers. :) I hope there exist a chosen one that can set things right.
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jei
replied on February 21st, 2006
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How to Get Rid of Risperdal?
Slam:

as u had used risperdal for 3 months, what rate? 3 mg or more?

I am using 1.5 mg per day for over 4 months. Total use of risperdal were 9 months.

How to get off it?

Wait for your reply.
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slam
replied on February 21st, 2006
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If you are young, you will need to ask your parents for you to stop taking the drugs. Here is a site that help prove that you need to get off it. Show this to help you. If they say it's ok, then I will tell you. I was on 4mg for 3 months.



Http://thestreetspirit.Org/august2005/madi nterview.Htm
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jei
replied on February 21st, 2006
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I Am 46 Yrs Old
The doctor said last week that soon I will drop the morning dosis 0.5 mg to 0.25 mg. And the nite remain at 1 mg for 15 more months.
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gypsygrl
replied on July 6th, 2008
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to slam
what r brain cramps? psych. have had me on a dose of riperdal for a year despite my complaints about it's effects. is there a remedy for the damage it may have caused?
thanks for your time.
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hcheu482
replied on January 5th, 2009
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how do I get off medication
how do I get off medication
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Kholdstare
replied on January 20th, 2009
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taking abilify
Is Abilify one of the medications that shrink the frontal lobe of the brain?
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woops
replied on January 20th, 2009
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Here is my plight, I have gone off of my meds for almost a year before, but all my "symptoms" return eventually, and then I almost die. Pretty much if I do not take them I will surely die, if not today then tomorrow. So, take them and live longer and in less pain, or don't take them and you probably know what, or do you not know what happens to us? Now sure, some of the time the pills don't work at all, i've seen it happen, sometimes they do nothing at all while killing the person, but in my case my "symptoms" go away, I have no choice.
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Kholdstare
replied on February 7th, 2009
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RE: taking abilify
I'm considering that Abilify may lower the chemical conductivity of the fluid contained in and surrounding the brain after prolonged usage. Although I don't take as much as I did, I can tell its effects when I attempt certain advanced tasks such as studying college work. Some people may feel that the drug can increase one's concentration, but I feel that it makes the effort of studying more difficult when I try to grasp concepts and theories. I was a chemistry major in college, and most people who majored in a science major know how challenging the subject really is. However, that's not to say that if I don't take abilify, my thoughts that may cause unreasonable behaviors are completely inhibited. My purpose here is to find out if there's medication that can be taken along with abilify to somewhat increase brain conductivity.
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