Exploring The Stigmas of Mental Health Treatment

[MrLouisrocko]

I have tried about ten different types of anti psychotics. I still do not believe that I am mental. I had a bit of a breakdown in my life when my work contract ended. I also lost my partner. I was depressed and couldn't find work. Sometimes I wish there was a way back to normal life. People are sometimes too quick to enforce their beliefs onto others. I believe that all I need is some help to get me back to what I was. I believe my condition is circumstantial and temporary.

[MrLouisrocko]

There is a stigma against psychiatric medication because evryone knows how terrible it is. It causes problems with the pancreas and can lead to problems in the blood. It can cause man breasts which produce milk and weight gain. Also sexual disfunction. It switches dopamine off. I was a normal guy who worked in high end jobs before being on the mental system on Britain. Someone decide I had something. I couldn't argue and had to take the treatment. I'm against forced treatment.

[winstono75]

There will always be stigma attached to psychiatric medicines. Because taking a medicine implies that there is something wrong with you.

[miriamhyde]

I am on medications and in talk therapy. I wish I had found this help years ago. Most of my life would not have been wasted suffering.

I just wish she was easier to listen to.

[TellEveThat]

Not every jew is sick but they all are carriers of mental illness. In 1900 there were 1,058,135 jews in the USA while in 1970 there were 5,868,555 which is an increase of 454.8%. In 1900 there were 62,112 persons confined in public mental hospitals in the USA while in 1970 there were 339,027 which is an increase of 445.7%. In the same period the USA population rose from 76,212,368 to 203,211,926, an increase of 166.6%. Prior to the influx of jews the USA was a mentally healthy nation. No more.

[JTSchnaars]

What about the million other changes that occured in those 70 years? What about the increased pace of life, or the decreasing willingess of families to support their mentally ill family members at home? You are cherry picking one number because it helps you make a point that you had already decided on before you saw any evidence.

[TellEveThat]

Johns Hopkins U. has been studying for a long time the obvious link between jews and mental illness. You can find the web page by googling "Why study ashkenazism?"

[miriamhyde]

Thanks for your sanity, JT

[miriamhyde]

Eve-il:

When Nazis murdered the mentally ill in death camps, obviously one of your relatives escaped.

Mental illness is manageable; stupidity is not.

[fliszt27]

@TellEveThat Just because there was an increase in Jews that co-incided with an increase in persons confinded doesn't mean that ALL or even a small percentage of the extra PEOPLE CONFINED were Jewish.

What is behind your hate and anti-semitism?

[flatted5th]

thank you for speaking out on stigma- my experience is so strange I doubt Steven King could write it- I chose change with a good supportive therapist; and was mocked and laughed at when I did change and unlock my True Self!- I am not making this up. I am on youtube now and am speaking out- the problem is not much has changed since Vincent took his own life in 1890 because "others" mocked and shunned him due to ignorance!

thank you and good luck

[LucyShy]

It's not the stigma; it's the cost.

[HumanEspressoMachine]

mmm baby i got a boner from that video. I had to pull my rod out. that doctor needs to come over here and let me shoot my man goo all over her face. keep them glasses on, so she will have ey protection. i cum a lot by taking cum-blaster pills. I cum like a water fountain

[byrdk50]

Medication is for anyone that has any mental health issues. So you might need to research more.

[letusdanceintherain]

YOU might need to research more byrdk50.

medication should only be used if therapy is not effective.

why would someone be put on tons of drugs if therapy would help?

[byrdk50]

well I agree that medication can be used with therapy. In my case I was placed on a medication and used talk therapy with it. That has helped me. I'm not saying everyone has a mental illness needs a drug to help. It should be available to anybody who says look Doc I want this drug. Know what your symptoms and then got to a doctor and get those treated.

[LucyShy]

In some cases, therapy is considered ineffective until the medication has stabilized the patient.

[wineandfire]

I have to agree with you, both the system and the patients as well as the rest of the world are fucked! Have a good day.

[wineandfire]

I'm sorry but I can't stand to listen to this b.s.

I had to turn it off at the 3 min. mark

The entire pscychiatric system is completely off base, they have no idea what it is they're doing. I can tell you,

they fuck people's lives up with their bullshit remedies that just make things worse.

[bebopPete]

Wine'n'Fire, your spelling is off base. And the pscychiatric [sic] psychiatric patients are also quite off base. Sylvia, on the other hand, is soooo right on. I'll bet she's even prettier in real life. Syl, are you married? :-) Have you got time to go get a cup of coffee? :-) rock on, sister!.

[letusdanceintherain]

and wineandfire, psychiatrists can't 'cure' you automatically. you need to do some damn work yourself.

those who actually want to get better get something positive out of the therapy, k?

[wineandfire]

and luditr, I've been in the system for far too long to even really care what it is they're doing.