tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post5018882735620253351..comments2024-03-28T09:59:51.779-05:00Comments on Family Dysfunction and Mental Health Blog: Do Antidepressants Cause Suicide?David M. Allen M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-31537371594579895632011-02-16T16:40:34.314-06:002011-02-16T16:40:34.314-06:00"Not all psychiatric diagnoses are created eq..."Not all psychiatric diagnoses are created equal - and many of them are probably not brain diseases in the way schizophrenia is"<br /> <br />You are even wrong about that. I HAD schizophrenia, I was cured. The idea of "aggravated schizophrenia" from the abuse as you say in your book was irrelevant as *psychotherapy transformed my personality by dealing with my emotional issues. <br />LOL that's - "strong emotional issues" behind the "flattened aspect" symptom. <br /><br />The idea to ignore abuse, trauma and lovelessness in those diagnosed with schizophrenia is not only wrong it is the abandonment some large segment of the population to a death of mindlessness on psychotropic drugs. Be careful we you bury under the psychotropics, they may come back from the dead. <br /><br /> I well remember the first 30 years , I remember it as being a shadow person, I remember not being there to live it, I remember with extreme unhappiness the unrecoverable loss of human relationships and my life's opportunity. <br /><br />I was just lucky that it happened over 30 years ago because in modern times the belief system which you represent would probably have prevented both the group psychotherapy and the funding for it to be given me. <br /><br />(*Therapy* - referring to a type of effective emotional change therapy that may no longer be extant in the DSM-V age replete with it's anti-therapy known as Talk-therapy.)Skybluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366888956552012585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-77471235780762938192010-07-21T12:43:41.274-05:002010-07-21T12:43:41.274-05:00" It would be nice if one could comfortably t..." It would be nice if one could comfortably tell one type of depression from another and expect at least half of his colleagues to agree. But your dysphoric mania is another man's agitated depression and the third one's depression with ADHD."<br /><br />What a disheartening statement! As an end-use consumer, the ability to discern one type of depression from another is exactly what I would expect a psychiatrist to know. However, my own experience is that we went from one diagnosis to another in about eight years, beginning with depression, for which Zoloft was prescribed, then ADHD (ritalin), next anxiety (ativan), followed by Bi-Polar (Lithium, also Seroquel), recently borderline personality (therapy).....Meanwhile our daughter did as well without medications as she did with them (actually, she did better without them, because she had some very bad effects on Lithium, and antidepressives made her feel better for a while, then seemed to stop working, and psychiatrists would add still more meds). <br />I know the diagnosis is really only a point of reference from which to address the symptoms. BUT it seems to me that each and every one of the diagnoses was given as a definite, along with the attitude of "take this and you'll feel better". <br />Some of the medications might have been helpful, if the patient and family members were told what to look for; alas, there was never (in our case) any attempt at coordinating what we knew with what the 'expert' knew, never mind that most psychiatric visits lasted for about 15 minutes. Indeed, relying on a disturbed individual to accurately report, along with the short time involved, leads me to believe that a true picture of the patient will never be assembled: the psychiatrist is, at best, only getting a snapshot. <br />Your post of the debate illuminates the idea that there are so many things happening at once in each field, and each individual seems to adhere to particular notions, while discounting the rest. Is there hope?Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10445351015081407295noreply@blogger.com