Mass psychosis in the US

[Julie Marie]

Considering therapy is practically mandatory for trans people...

How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.
James Ridgeway, 12 Jul 2011 06:20

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.

Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics

FULL ARTICLE

[AmySmiles]

That article pretty much sums up why I'm scared of the drug industry and psychiatrists.  It's not a good idea to be pumping chemicals into everyone when we don't know the long term consequences of using them.

[Julie Marie]

What scares me is so many of us go into therapy and by doing so are more exposed to being prescribed drugs.  For everyone I know, their primary issue came from social pressure to suppress their real selves.  But we are taught we are the problem, "So here's a drug..." 

I've seen what these drugs can do to a person.  I've seen bubbly people (who occasionally lose their temper) turn into flatliners - emotionless zombies going through life with little enthusiasm.  That's why I've always refused any suggestion I take meds for my dysphoria.  I've always known I didn't need them.  I just needed to be me.

[tekla]

I stay away from all of them, it's not a chemical problem.

[Keaira]

I took Wellbutrin for a while and it just made me feel worse. And I mean suicidal worse. Never again.

[Sage]

Personally I believe (in some cases) drugs just cover up or mask the problem.  Unless it's a severe mental illness like bipolar disprder or schizophrenia.

If people can be taught how to help themselves, like in therapy or counseling, which teaches people how to manage whatever problems they're facing on their own, then that's much better than just being drugged all the time, methinks.