Comments: New York Times: Doctors Criticizing Antipsychotic Use In Elderly
Well big surprise. We already know this.
You let them win when you call these drugs by their marketing name so called 'antipsychotics' they used to be called major tranquilizers which is all they are. That is the only thing they do.
So another forgotten group in society that is considered unconscious and not part of society, those elderly thrown in factory farm nursing homes, are being majorly tranquilized rather than being talked to and kept amused.
And we are using MEDICAL language?!!! To describe what is happening? Again, the terms 'overmedication', 'medication', again, its not about doctors taking a hard look at anything...
These drugs don't do a thing but place the entire mind in clamp. We have groups where the doctors don't know jack shit about what is happening in their brains, yet we are letting them play guesswork with millions of peoples' neurology. Can you fucking imagine how terrible it would be to have declining cognitive function from age, compounded by toxic neuroleptic rape and fraud... There will come an age where I will just fucking kill myself, there is no way I am ever getting into the clutches of these sickening elitist bastards in the world of breakneck guesswork prestige seeking shithead pieces of goddamn rubbish my god I want to safe country to move to.
Posted by Poe at June 24, 2008 02:48 AM
ENOUGH!
Stop this nonsense!
Please US citizens!
UNITE!
PLEASE! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Ana at June 24, 2008 03:40 AM
From the article:
"Our health care system isn’t set up to address the mental, emotional and behavioral problems of the elderly,” said Dr. Gary S. Moak, president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry."
That statement applies to the mental health system in general--and this is the problem!-- where these drugs are being used on children, autistic kids,teens, adults--long before they reach nursing home age, yet with the same adverse side effects.
I'm glad the woman was tenacious and challenged the doctors for her Mom.
Posted by Stephany at June 24, 2008 10:30 AM
Ana, Make sure you have an advance directive written out. Educate those around you about the what these drugs really do.
Posted by MsNaturalgal at June 24, 2008 10:55 AM
This has been going on for such a long time that honestly I just feel tired thinking that it's only now getting into mainstream media. Where has everyone been for way over a decade?
Posted by Sara at June 24, 2008 07:45 PM
We need to go back to this. I was trained in the method and saw it work absolute miracles:
http://www.google.com/search?q=validation+therapy+for+dementia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Posted by flawedplan at June 25, 2008 12:05 AM
MsNaturalgal,
I try! I try, and try.
You have no idea what is going around here.
Not a single site, or blog, or anything raising the problem.
Why am I blogging in English? you must be asking.
Because it would mean nothing a blog like this in Portuguese.
"They" would destroy it either hacking it or commenting daily about how wrong I'm.
I try in a social networking with six or seven people who are now starting to get suspicious of it all. But "they" invalidate everything we say.
It will take time.
What I wrote about Brazil in this blog here has already been "visited by "them".
It's hard to have all of these information, a book almost ready and not being able to do anything.
Thank you for the support.
Posted by Ana at June 25, 2008 06:08 PM