It ain't no misintepretation

[compsports]

I keep listening to Dr. Breggin's old programs he has done on the radio.

 

He constantly mentions that mental health professionals misinterpret toxic symptoms as the mental illness worsening. This may sound too blunt but in some cases (not all), I am convinced that this is not a misinterpretation and they know darned right well what is going on. They just feel that having a so called mental illness justifies having toxic symptoms from psych meds come heck or high water.

 

Tell me why I am wrong.

 

CS

[Barbarannamated]

That's a tough one, CS. I DO believe that alot of docs are aware of some degree of DC syndrome, but the info they get is so limited and watered down. Unless they get on one of these sites and read patient accounts and the parallels within the wide variations, I don't think they REALLY understand. Most info given to them in office about drugs has to be FDA-approved and we know that won't be accurate or inclusive. However, I think that my doc was very aware of the depressant effects I was likely experiencing after so many years on many drugs.

I was reading correspondence about the UK committee that first addressed overusage of benzos back in the 70s-80s. I don't recall where I got it but will try to post here, I was struck by the similarities to the SS/NRI story. Ironically, the benzo committee referred to the similarity to "the opiate problem" that had been identified years earlier.

 

So, I agree that there IS knowledge, although most docs only realize a tip of the iceberg. The longer it remains unaddressed, the longer it will take to understand and treat it. Even among the docs who do acknowledge it, there are few who know how to treat.

I predict it will fall to the Public Health sector and Epidemiologists to quantify the problem and then an interdisciplinary committee (headed by Alto, Giovana Fava, et al!) to lay out a plan. By then, there will be a new class of psychotropics that are considered 'safer' than the 'nasty serotonin drugs' while antidepressant detox clinics spring up.

 

It's a sad commentary of how our society doesn't learn from past mistakes and continues w/dangerous attempts to 'correct' the human mind and condition.

[Altostrata]

I think many of them habitually discount anything the patients have to say about their physical or mental states. They think we're a bunch of whiners and exaggerators.

[aza]

I think many of them habitually discount anything the patients have to say about their physical or mental states. They think we're a bunch of whiners and exaggerators.

 

When I spoke to my doctor about forums she made it clear to me that she would not look at them as she felt that they were biased and inacurate.

 

It became abundantly clear to me that she had no intention of being up front with me as to what she really thought about what she called "anicdotal" evidence, in regards to withdrawal or side effects and the lack of accurate info regarding so many psyc meds.

 

She was not appolgetic and full of excuses. Any time I pointed out the ovious to her, her answer was there is only "anicdotal" evidence. She knows that this is one big experiment on the masses and she is a participant. But not nesesarily a victom.

 

I simply stated to her it was the forums which gave me the answers I needed to help myself and not her.

 

This was disapointing to me as up to this point I had confidence in her that she would do right by me and she was useing good judgement in the medications she was prescrribing for me but apparently not.

 

As if keeping the secret about psyc meds from me would make me feel safe and not scared? This has shattered my confidence to the core.

[jr1985]

Funny how its "anecdotal" when the patient says it but a "case report" when its a doctor.

[Barbarannamated]

Aza,

 

This paper might be of interest:

 

http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/3132-belaise-2012-patient-online-report-of-selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor-induced-persistent-postwithdrawal-anxiety-and-mood-disorders/page__fromsearch__1