seroquel and all anti psychotics

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please consider this.    is severe mental illness the most prevalent medical condition in the US???    more prevalent than heart disease?  cancer?  diabetes?
how the hell can this class of powerful powerful drugs with horrible side effects be the NUMBER ONE selling class of drugs in America??  and they are one of the most expensive!!!!!   they hand it out like aspirin.    my pdoc NEVER told me about the side effects.  he never recommended that i have my liver checked!  my eyes!   he blew off my constant complaint about weight gain and how it was effecting my self esteem and health.   he actually said "what does it matter if you're not a swim suit model?"        it MATTERS A LOT!   
i have to say after over 10 years (which of coarse they never could have studied long term effects considering they just approved one based on 6 week trials.) I am at the lowest point in my life and i believe a lot of it has to do with seroquel and the other drugs they dished out to me. 
and people worry so much about     from what i've studied it is less harmful than antipsychotic s- but, hey if it's legalized it'd be cheep.  they have marketed these drugs in the same way  that AXE markets it's product. use it and you'll be sexy!    take our pill and you will be cured!  the absolutely only benefit i received from it that might have been worth anything is that it allowed me to be a little more stable parent for a short time.

[tomcat13claws]

That really pisses me off about that you not being a swimsuit model crack.  I'd fucking grab the bastard by his adams apple and make apple sauce if he pulled that on me.  What the fuck ever happened to the hypocrite oath?   This whole psych community is making me want to puke.  I thought Scientologists were nuts, but I'm not so sure anymore.  I'm lucky, I think my shrink cares, but he tried to get me to take Depakote, and I told him to suck a Depakote dildo. You need to keep yourself educated.  I guess here is a good place since we can--more or less--speak our minds. I had shrinks in the past give me drugs, and necessary tests were not part of the tx. I've also been abruptly cut off from drugs where tapering was suggested in the literature.

Even my shrink now, who I trust, got pissy with me for me asking for an explanation of why exactly I was dx'd BP II.  That pisses me off.  Answer my fucking question.  You work for me the last time I checked.  Our next meeting will be interesting.  I'll keep my cool.  I need this guy until I can find better--and that might be tuff to do.

Sorry if I'm rambling, but just don't be a fool.  Don't fall at the feet of these shrinks like they are Jesus Christ himself.  They are human.  They don't know it all.  And if they don't accept you as a partner in your treatment--tell them to fuck themselves.  Just because you have a mental dx, It doesn't mean you are a dolt.

Tell your shrink to fuck off from me.

Sorry, I'm can't be of more help, but I get pissed easy, and then can't concentrate so well--and your shrink pisses me off--the fucker.  Now I'm all hyped up. lol

[Paz]

 I think atypical antipsychotics are very strong drugs to be handing out so freely. When I was in the US, my Pdocs [all of them!] had very large cabinets full of drugs and all other sorts of shit. They gave me a Depakote weekly pill organizer , pens, cups and of course, DRUGS!!!! Samples, samples ,samples!!!
 I didn't have to pay for any brand name meds [Depakote, seroquel, Topamax,Geodon,Zyprexa....all the ones that they wanted me to try] for the first year of my treatment! Unbelieveable, huh? 

 My Pdoc in the states gave me samples to take with me when we moved, but since I don't take antipsychotics on a regular basis, the samples and rescue meds will last me awhile....the expiry date is like 2013.

 I think that some pdocs really over-medicate BP's.....when you are too spaced out & tired to move, you are a captive audience for therapy, and when you are out in the world, you are less likely to "cause trouble" or "get into trouble".   

[Dreamline]

I'm lucky, I think my shrink cares, but he tried to get me to take Depakote, and I told him to suck a Depakote dildo.

 

[D13C]

Simple, It's easier to be (diagnosed) crazy than wrong.

D13C.

[k]

hey, tomcat i told my pdoc what you said - he wants your address       but, here's another good one from him.     i saw him last week and told him the weight gain has totally depleted what little self esteem i had and my life has 0 quality so i'm going off seroquel.   i tried a few months ago and had tapered down from 600mg to about 100mg but some really stressfull events sent me back up to 600.  when he was trying to get me to take higher and higher doses   he said it really doesn't matter what dosage you take it has the same effect in regards to weight gain (not that i believed him for a second)  but now that i gone much lower he just said "well, you are on such a LOW dose that it should NOT be effecting your weight."      gosh i just totally trust whatever you say.    but, the good thing is that if i do my own research he'll pretty much go along with my requests.  so that parts good.  and now i'm on my way down or will i be going up 

[k]

also, i posted when i was really angry and feeling sorry for myself and situation.   i do believe psych meds can be beneficial.  i'm grateful for them in a lot of ways.  and it happens with other types of drugs as well.  what saddens me is that all that money that has been spent over medicating people and medicating people who shouldn't be medicated has harmed the whole system.   i've been at this a long time. i'm 52 and we use to have 3 private psych hospitals in our city.  ok maybe overkill but now we have none.   And though people often say there's help out there you just have to look for it , i wish those same people would actually go look for themselves because it doesn't exist.   i know i've tried hard in the last year.
my husband has been in a very bad place for a long time now and has been hospitalized for psych reasons as well and the very last time he went he laid in the hall of the ER for almost a day and then was shipped  2 hours away.  we went through hell trying to find him - that's a whole other story.....   i hate it when laws have to be carried too far...even as his wife when he was in the hospital dying of seratonin syndrome because he had been admitted under pyschiatric i had to fight like hell every day to see him. same for his mother.  i live an hour away and i wanted to check on him when i had to go home by calling the nurse but they refused to speak to me because of a law - which requires the patients approval before they can talk to another person - even if the patient is UNCONSCIOUS