|
|
"I’m floored by the way the psychiatric profession shrugs off SSRI-related violence, suicide and other problems."
A few years ago I consulted a psychiatrist about an anxiety problem. I was given a prescription for Paxil. After seeing websites like the ICFDA and other anti-SSRI, anti-psychiatry websites, I chose not to fill the prescription.
I’m floored by the way the psychiatric profession shrugs off SSRI-related violence, suicide and other problems. Psychiatry’s belief in these drugs as infallible is so firmly ingrained that whenever a patient does become violent, suicidal, what have you, the patient, not the drug, is at fault. That is yet another reason why I opted to do without SSRI’s.
It is interesting to note that akathisia is one of the potential side-effects of SSRI-class antidepressants. From my own research, I’ve learned that neuroleptics also cause akathisia. Interestingly, the tricyclic antidepressants which preceded SSRI’s are in fact modified versions of neuroleptic drugs and can also cause akathisia.
If SSRI’s can cause akathisia like their tricyclic counterparts, then one has to wonder if SSRI’s are truly the ‘new’ compounds that drug makers hold them out to be, or simply the same old dogs in new coats of fur.
In addition to examining the very real dangers posed by SSRI’s and other psychiatric drugs, attention should also be paid to the premise that depression, schizophrenia and other so-called ‘mental illnesses’ are prima facie evidence of organic brain disease. Psychiatry has yet to develop reliable blood or other tests which can accurately identify these problems. Diagnosis still relies (all too heavily, in my opinion) on a set of arbitrary constructs, wild-ass guessing on the part of psychiatrists, and not on scientific rigour.
Steve Struthers
waverider63@hotmail.com
|
