tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1296152088540214145..comments2024-03-28T14:16:42.371+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What do 'antipsychotics' do to people? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-74597387077252811062013-04-19T17:58:51.619+01:002013-04-19T17:58:51.619+01:00@z. Indeed. We are living though one of the worst ...@z. Indeed. We are living though one of the worst ever episodes of medically sanctioned abuse of children - hidden in plain sight - zealously and self-righteously being implemented and defended with aggression on the basis of calculatedly-faked research.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-30332585054509847062013-04-19T16:08:53.998+01:002013-04-19T16:08:53.998+01:00...with the notion of 'preventing' long te...<i>...with the notion of 'preventing' long term psychoses which very probably are not going to happen anyway</i><br /><br />Er, well, <i>wouldn't</i> have happened if they hadn't pumped the youngsters full of psychotropic drugs. But when the kiddos grow up with lifelong mental problems that will be spun as validation of the early diagnosis, not as what it is in truth: an effect of putting children on psychotropics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-60502187519661141462013-04-18T04:56:46.217+01:002013-04-18T04:56:46.217+01:00Sounds like they become Bhuddists :) Except that B...Sounds like they become Bhuddists :) Except that Bhuddism describes non-attachment as accompanied by a quiet joy and happiness.<br /><br />For someone who is tormented, cessation of torment might be the closest to happiness he can get. Neutral affect should not be underrated. Euphoria is great, but not everyone can have it, and even those who have it regularly know that it brings a crash, and that wisdom means not the constant search for euphoria.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-22818731314148157612013-04-17T22:33:18.677+01:002013-04-17T22:33:18.677+01:00@Nate - Pharmageddon by David Healy is a must-read...@Nate - Pharmageddon by David Healy is a must-read. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-33311200634091375032013-04-17T22:20:05.163+01:002013-04-17T22:20:05.163+01:00Thanks for this post. I'm a physician, and An...Thanks for this post. I'm a physician, and Anatomy of an Epidemic was quite an eye-opener for me. I think it is the most important medical book I've read. It really highlights the very real possibility of doing harm.<br /><br />Are there any other good medical books you have come across in your days as editor of medical hypothesis or since then?<br /> Natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-91254874390668239852013-04-17T10:24:56.723+01:002013-04-17T10:24:56.723+01:00@SJ - In principle, antipsychotics could safely (r...@SJ - In principle, antipsychotics could safely (reasonably safely) be used for short term treatment of agitation, if people were aware of what the drugs did and of their hazards. <br /><br />In practice, it would be safer to regard them as a second line treatment to be used only after sedation (eg with promethazine and or lorazapam) had failed to control behaviour; and for severe psychotic agitation emergency ECT is probably safer and less harmful than big antipsychotic doses. <br /><br />You see, antipsychotics are known *for sure* to be neurotoxic agents (as evidenced by tardive dyskenisia); and that is NOT a good thing! <br /><br />For this reasons I would NEVER use antipsychotics in children (instead of using them in tens of thousands of children or young teens and increasingly, as at present; under new ideas of 'progress' in psychiatry with the notion of 'preventing' long term psychoses which very probably are not going to happen anyway).Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-1158050787816750592013-04-16T22:24:56.107+01:002013-04-16T22:24:56.107+01:00I found this interesting.
http://cardiobrief.org/2...I found this interesting.<br />http://cardiobrief.org/2013/04/16/blood-sample-mismatch-leads-anguished-authors-to-retract-three-lipitor-papers/deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-86006294130360187572013-04-16T21:46:35.938+01:002013-04-16T21:46:35.938+01:00What's your feeling on using them occasionally...What's your feeling on using them occasionally for agitation?Samson J.http://samsonsjawbone.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com