Posted by Lou Pilder on July 14, 2011, at 21:41:42
In reply to Re: I consider people on Psych Meds to be drug addicts, posted by Defective on July 14, 2011, at 13:08:04
> What you are doing in your headline is called generalizing. In your narcissistic world, your experience may be the experience of everyone else, but in reality it's not. Making statements like you have is irresponsible and has resulted in hundreds thousands of unnecessary suicides. Psychiatry is a well-founded science that has saved an infinite amount of lives. It's not a perfect science, but neither is any other science. What we know now may evolve as it has for centuries. That's no reason to poke holes in it or say "see this guy got addicted to sleeping pills. Psychiatry is bad." Surgeries are botched all the time because biological understanding is also imperfect. That doesn't mean a person with a huge cancerous mass should avoid surgery. What have you done with your life besides spread misleading propoganda? Are you the arbiter of scientific validity? Are you a scientist? Have you even stepped foot in a University that exists offline? I'm not being antagonistic, but you need to realize that spreading propaganda like this will actually result in people killing themselves or others. Go to any major university in your area and do your research on psychiatry before claiming to know everything about it from a negative personal experience. As an alumnus of my university, I have access to any psychiatric literature within our electronic scholarly database that you might want to see and I would be happy to send it to you and even pay for shipping as long as you read them with an open mind. I'm very sorry you had a bad experience, but choose a more accurate headline next time. Have a good day and please don't consider this anything other than offer to enlighten you.
Df,
I am unsure as to what you are wanting to mean here. If you could post answers to the following True-False questions, then Icould have the opportunit to respond accordingly.
True or False:
A. The definition of a {drug addict} could vary.
B. Huxly's conception of a drug addict is one that could be included in this variable definition, if you consider the definition to vary.
C. A person could consider a person that goes into withdrawal when a psychotropic drug is stopped, to suffer some of the same things that a drug addict experinces when they stop , let's say, a narcotic.
D. Some psychotropic drugs have opium or a synthetic opium substance in them.
E. The withdrawal from Klonopin or Xanax, both benzodiazepines, is described by those that used both opiates and BZDs, to be worse than the withdrawal from opium based deugs.
F. People have killed themselves while in withdrawal from psychotropic drugs.
G. People have killed others while in withdrawal from psychotropic drugs.
H. The FDA has a warning that people taking some psychotropic drugs could have increased suicide thinking and increased homocide thinking.
K. Over 40,000 people last year died from taking psychotropic drugs last year.
L. After psychiatrists gave Earnest Hemingway ECT, he killed himself.
M. Sigmund Freud killed himself
N. Psychiatrists have never been involved in genocide
O. Psychiatrists are forbidden to take money from the psychiatric drug manufacturers
P. There are no life-ruining condition as a result of taking psychotropic drugs.
Q. redacted by respondent
Lou
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