Ah, don't hate on the lowercase. ;) It could be worse. I could have titled my blog dEpReSsIoN iNtRoSpEcTiOn.

Man, that required thought. I'm sure I screwed it up somehow.

nah i'm just clowning on the lower case!

Great roundup. Doublecheck the spiritual recoveries link? Leads to intueri.

haha .

many

thanks philip.

stephany

My use of lower case is strictly due to laziness. It takes extra effort to hit that shift key.

"And then there is this. Last week, a 17-year-old was charged with giving some other teens Seroquel. The other teens showed up at school acting like zombies. There is something very weird going on with Seroquel in our culture. People snorting it. Inmates shooting it. Teens giving it to other teens. I wonder what the attraction is."

I think the attraction is that it gets you high...at least some, maybe most, of the time.

I take it for BPII and I have been on it for eight months. (up to 600mg...gulp!) I can say that there have been times (many times) that it has: made me hallucinate, made me feel so spaced out, warm/fuzyy and loaded that I might as well have been on a couple of benzo's and some methadone, and of course it just has that great effect of destroying stress by relieving you of your ability to give a crap about anything.

people take it, and ask for it, without a prescription because it makes them feel good/high at least enough of the time to cause them to keep asking for more.
I only know this because I have alot of drug addict/alcoholic friends whom also happen to hang out with crazy people like me who are on seroquel.

Yes they ask for it, and yes I'm a horrible person but I'll throw them 50mgs here and there. I mean hey, if they're willing to trade me a bowl or two for it I think it's a fair deal.

sorry to burst the bubble but seroquel is a drug with a capitol "D" and people may not abuse it the way they do meth or herion but they sure will take it/ask for it even if they don't need it when the opportunity presents itself.

kind of like valium. I'm sure you can sell it on the streets but probably not for much more than a few bucks a pill.

Hmm Katielou. Interesting about the seroquel. I can certainly see the attraction to methadone, adderall and the benzos- believe me I can, perhaps a little too well, but SEROQUEL? It really makes you feel "warm and fuzzy"? if my doc had been prescribing me something that felt like "a few benzos and some methadone" i'd have been seriously stoked. seroquel felt more like the negation of all that could possibly ever be good. it felt like the nullification of my personality and my dignity. it felt like being trapped in a worthless, unhealthy body. wanting to scream in horror but unable to scream.

sedative properties and utility in knocking down acute mania aside, i think it's one disgusting little drug. but then again, i don't like to play with dopamine. my boyfriend's dad has parkinson's disease. i'm not going to mess with it longterm if i don't have to.

i fell and busted my knee up good. for the first time in years i have a small amount of hydrocodone in my possession. now THERE is a drug that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. and also functions surprisingly well as a mood stabilizer. Thoughts?