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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 412163" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>It's the "thorazine shuffle", by the way, and is seen in schizophrenics who have been on very heavy doses of thorazine for years and years.</p><p></p><p>I take Haldol in a low dose because I have horrific side effects from the modern antipsychotics and I need an AP to function properly.</p><p></p><p>Your mother sounds a lot like mine used to be and she suffers from chronic clinical depression and anxiety but won't take anything for it.</p><p></p><p>I take medications not because it is a weakness, but because I can't function without them. I'm hardly an addict or anything like that. I view it as being the same as needing medications for diabetes or cholesterol or whatever.</p><p></p><p>I periodically gritch to my psychiatrist about having to take all these medications and that is the analogy he uses. He's right. I was a manic, suicidal MESS before I finally got on medications. I am still disabled by my bipolar, but I'm at least able to take care of myself even if I can no longer work.</p><p></p><p>The only "addictive" medication I take is Ativan and even there, I take them as scheduled as needed for anxiety. If I run out, I don't go into benzo withdrawal. I just experience anxiety attacks if I get in a triggering situation and don't have them.</p><p></p><p>That's like saying husband was "weak" because his illness caused so much pain that he had to take large doses of narcotics. He was NOT weak, he was very ill and in a hellish amount of pain. The narcotics enabled him to have what sort of life he could despite his illness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 412163, member: 1963"] It's the "thorazine shuffle", by the way, and is seen in schizophrenics who have been on very heavy doses of thorazine for years and years. I take Haldol in a low dose because I have horrific side effects from the modern antipsychotics and I need an AP to function properly. Your mother sounds a lot like mine used to be and she suffers from chronic clinical depression and anxiety but won't take anything for it. I take medications not because it is a weakness, but because I can't function without them. I'm hardly an addict or anything like that. I view it as being the same as needing medications for diabetes or cholesterol or whatever. I periodically gritch to my psychiatrist about having to take all these medications and that is the analogy he uses. He's right. I was a manic, suicidal MESS before I finally got on medications. I am still disabled by my bipolar, but I'm at least able to take care of myself even if I can no longer work. The only "addictive" medication I take is Ativan and even there, I take them as scheduled as needed for anxiety. If I run out, I don't go into benzo withdrawal. I just experience anxiety attacks if I get in a triggering situation and don't have them. That's like saying husband was "weak" because his illness caused so much pain that he had to take large doses of narcotics. He was NOT weak, he was very ill and in a hellish amount of pain. The narcotics enabled him to have what sort of life he could despite his illness. [/QUOTE]
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