Guest guest Posted December 25, 2004 Report Share Posted December 25, 2004 In a message dated 12/24/04 10:23:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > Treated.....??? Were they really treated or were they just dopped up > so they didn't complain or act out anymore? > > I wonder how many of the number 'treated' were actually treated. > During my 4-day stint in the state-funded squirrel farm back in 1997, I had the opportunity to see how people were " treated " -- with lots and lots and lots of pretty pills. Most of the people in that ward were so doped they just sat around and drooled, peeing in their pants, except for the ones on antipsychotics who had TD and akathisia, and then they walked up and down the halls for hours and hours, and there was one woman who danced and twirled for 10 hours a day. It was right out of that Cuckoo's Nest movie!! " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2004 Report Share Posted December 25, 2004 Re: Glitter's description of her experience in a " squirrel farm, " I am not too familiar with these things, and I was shocked and very disturbed by the way hospital patients at our local hospital are treated, if they are admitted under a shrink's care, apparently. A friend and fellow parishioner, who has done a lot of handyman work for me, when I was getting my mom's house ready for the market, and then later here where we live now, was admitted to have some drugs adjusted. A shrink has him believing that his brain is broken, as his mother was an alcoholic and he was hit on the head frequently as a child. Anyway, he was in the hospital, and we decided to stop in and see him, keep him company. Wow! I cannot believe the baloney we went through, both on the telephone, asking for his room number, and then, when we got there, having to ring a buzzer and be admitted to a locked ward, have the stuff we brought him examined, sign in, etc., and etc. Several different phone calls, and we got cloak and dagger messages that got increasingly sinister, according to who was answering the phone. And then they would not tell us whether he was still there another day...absolutely bizarre, we thought the people in charge were the ones who needed watching. He told us he had to be at a special meeting every evening at a certain time, before they could go to bed. And yet, I was born in this hospital 60 years ago, and have visited about a zillion people there over the years, what is this cloak and dagger drama they build around someone ill-advised enough to be treated by a shrink, rather than, say , a neurologist? That was right out of the Cuckoo's Nest movie, in 2004!. gertie Re: Treatment vs Torture In a message dated 12/24/04 10:23:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > Treated.....??? Were they really treated or were they just dopped up > so they didn't complain or act out anymore? > > I wonder how many of the number 'treated' were actually treated. > During my 4-day stint in the state-funded squirrel farm back in 1997, I had the opportunity to see how people were " treated " -- with lots and lots and lots of pretty pills. Most of the people in that ward were so doped they just sat around and drooled, peeing in their pants, except for the ones on antipsychotics who had TD and akathisia, and then they walked up and down the halls for hours and hours, and there was one woman who danced and twirled for 10 hours a day. It was right out of that Cuckoo's Nest movie!! " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 I have seen the psych wards, it's pure evil and a suppression of a persons soul. The Quakers did a much better job of caring for the disturbed until they were run out off by the medical doctors. Jim Re: Glitter's description of her experience in a " squirrel farm, " I am not too familiar with these things, and I was shocked and very disturbed by the way hospital patients at our local hospital are treated, if they are admitted under a shrink's care, apparently. A friend and fellow parishioner, who has done a lot of handyman work for me, when I was getting my mom's house ready for the market, and then later here where we live now, was admitted to have some drugs adjusted. A shrink has him believing that his brain is broken, as his mother was an alcoholic and he was hit on the head frequently as a child. Anyway, he was in the hospital, and we decided to stop in and see him, keep him company. Wow! I cannot believe the baloney we went through, both on the telephone, asking for his room number, and then, when we got there, having to ring a buzzer and be admitted to a locked ward, have the stuff we brought him examined, sign in, etc., and etc. Several different phone calls, and we got cloak and dagger messages that got increasingly sinister, according to who was answering the phone. And then they would not tell us whether he was still there another day...absolutely bizarre, we thought the people in charge were the ones who needed watching. He told us he had to be at a special meeting every evening at a certain time, before they could go to bed. And yet, I was born in this hospital 60 years ago, and have visited about a zillion people there over the years, what is this cloak and dagger drama they build around someone ill-advised enough to be treated by a shrink, rather than, say , a neurologist? That was right out of the Cuckoo's Nest movie, in 2004!. gertie Re: Treatment vs Torture In a message dated 12/24/04 10:23:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > Treated.....??? Were they really treated or were they just dopped up > so they didn't complain or act out anymore? > > I wonder how many of the number 'treated' were actually treated. > During my 4-day stint in the state-funded squirrel farm back in 1997, I had the opportunity to see how people were " treated " -- with lots and lots and lots of pretty pills. Most of the people in that ward were so doped they just sat around and drooled, peeing in their pants, except for the ones on antipsychotics who had TD and akathisia, and then they walked up and down the halls for hours and hours, and there was one woman who danced and twirled for 10 hours a day. It was right out of that Cuckoo's Nest movie!! " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 27, 2004 Report Share Posted December 27, 2004 I have seen the psych wards, it's pure evil and a suppression of a persons soul. The Quakers did a much better job of caring for the disturbed until they were run out off by the medical doctors. Jim Re: Glitter's description of her experience in a " squirrel farm, " I am not too familiar with these things, and I was shocked and very disturbed by the way hospital patients at our local hospital are treated, if they are admitted under a shrink's care, apparently. A friend and fellow parishioner, who has done a lot of handyman work for me, when I was getting my mom's house ready for the market, and then later here where we live now, was admitted to have some drugs adjusted. A shrink has him believing that his brain is broken, as his mother was an alcoholic and he was hit on the head frequently as a child. Anyway, he was in the hospital, and we decided to stop in and see him, keep him company. Wow! I cannot believe the baloney we went through, both on the telephone, asking for his room number, and then, when we got there, having to ring a buzzer and be admitted to a locked ward, have the stuff we brought him examined, sign in, etc., and etc. Several different phone calls, and we got cloak and dagger messages that got increasingly sinister, according to who was answering the phone. And then they would not tell us whether he was still there another day...absolutely bizarre, we thought the people in charge were the ones who needed watching. He told us he had to be at a special meeting every evening at a certain time, before they could go to bed. And yet, I was born in this hospital 60 years ago, and have visited about a zillion people there over the years, what is this cloak and dagger drama they build around someone ill-advised enough to be treated by a shrink, rather than, say , a neurologist? That was right out of the Cuckoo's Nest movie, in 2004!. gertie Re: Treatment vs Torture In a message dated 12/24/04 10:23:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, SSRI medications writes: > Treated.....??? Were they really treated or were they just dopped up > so they didn't complain or act out anymore? > > I wonder how many of the number 'treated' were actually treated. > During my 4-day stint in the state-funded squirrel farm back in 1997, I had the opportunity to see how people were " treated " -- with lots and lots and lots of pretty pills. Most of the people in that ward were so doped they just sat around and drooled, peeing in their pants, except for the ones on antipsychotics who had TD and akathisia, and then they walked up and down the halls for hours and hours, and there was one woman who danced and twirled for 10 hours a day. It was right out of that Cuckoo's Nest movie!! " Blind Reason " a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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