The Neuroleptic Drugs

I'm someone who really hates the use of the term antipsychotic. The neuroleptic drugs, drugs like Abilify, Seroquel, Risperdal, Invega, Geodon, and Haldol don't have a specific antipsychotic effect. These drugs instead produce generalized brain dysfunction not unlike an ice pick driven through your eye socket. These drugs are anti-anything they get prescribed for and anti-anybody they get prescribed to. In Peter Breggin's book Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry he points to research illustrative of the brain disabling effects of the drugs. This is an excerpt from his book:

Peter Liddle and his colleagues (2000) used positron emission tomography (PET) to study the effects of risperdone on the rate of metabolism on the ventral striatum, thalamus, and frontal cortex. Their subjects were eight neuroleptic-naive patients diagnosed with their first episodes of schizophrenia.

First and foremost, Liddle et al. (2000) found that "a single dose of risperdone produced decreases in metabolism in ventral striatum, thalamus and frontal cortex." The authors identified this region as the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical feedback loop. This encompasses much of the emotion-regulating centers in the limbic system and higher mental centers in the frontal lobes. Dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a significant role in this system and is profoundly blocked by risperdone. Clearly this confirms that risperdone, like all neuroleptics, causes a chemical lobotomy, with inevitable production of relative degrees of apathy and indifference.

If psychiatry came up with a label and a symptom checklist that included things like a preoccupation with sports, unusual excitement over the minutia of a sporting event, and intrusive thoughts about sports they could make being a sports announcer a psychiatric illness. They could then use the neuroleptic drugs to reduce the symptoms of that newly defined psychiatric illness. Van Putten and Marder's description of akinesia in Behavioral Toxicity of Antipsychotic Drugs could have referred to sports announcers. It could read like this:

In the treatment of sports announcers with neuroleptics, akinesia, in our experience, produces a type of improvement. The patient talks less about sports, but he talks less of everything; he is less bothered by a lay-up or a touchdown, but he is less bothered by everything else as well; he less invested in sports, but he is less invested in all else as well. Many patients with akinesia experience a peculiar absence of emotions, appear emotionally dead, and often state that everything is all right. This type of improvement, which occurs particularly with higher doses, is one we should not be proud of.

Most people don't know that the brain disabling effects of these drugs are the primary effects of these drugs, it's not a side effect. It's interesting to look at peoples subjective experience of taking the drugs, it gives you some idea just how the drugs might be working.

The neuroleptic drugs are now being used to treat depression. They've just begun marketing a neuroleptic drug named Seroquel direct to consumers. The television ads for another neuroleptic drug called Abilify have been running for a while now. If these drugs perform any better than a sugar pill it makes you wonder how they work to treat the thoughts and feelings that may make one depressed.

12/27/2009 - Link

Vicious Slander

The things being said about me are nothing but vicious slander. It's just defamatory. To suggest that I'm "aggressive" is just vicious dehumanizing slander. It's just bullshit. I'm fully responsible for everything I do and say. When I'm drinking I'm fully and completely responsible for everything I do and say. It doesn't matter how much I drank because I'm fully responsible for every single drop I drink. To suggest that I'm inhuman and out of control and somehow "aggressive" is just complete bullshit. If I'm falsely accused of something I expect to be held fully responsible for anything I'm alleged to have done or said, if the allegation is criminal I demand the right to face my accuser in a court of law. I'm aware of the law and the duties I have towards others. I'm fully responsible for every action I take and every utterance I make.

12/21/2009 - Link

Controlling What People Think

Psychiatry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. The drugs they use to treat people who get labeled with schizophrenia are extremely profitable and their use is growing. The market for these drugs has expanded to include the treatment of elderly patients with dementia and children mislabeled as bipolar. Neuroleptic drugs like Seroquel and Abilify are now being marketed to consumers as a treatment for depression and bipolar disorder. There's a huge financial interest in literally controlling what people think about these worthless brain damaging drugs, mental illness and the mentally ill. The lies being told about me are part of that effort to control what people think. It's an effort to control what people think because the industry profits from harming people with these drugs. If your someone who hasn't figured it out already the lies your being told will help them sell harmful drugs to you and even get you to coerce others into taking them.

The fact that I appear to be fully recovered and people who have known me for a long time can't see anything wrong with me is a problem for someone who's trying to control what you think about neuroleptic drugs. So is the fact that I'm in really good health, the fact that I have a normal BMI, the fact that I'm sexually healthy, that fact that I have a good diet and get regular exercise. It's a real problem that I can run 10 miles. You might ask yourself, well why would that be? It's because psychiatrists, the worthless quacks who prescribe the drugs and apply psychiatric labels are a bunch of brain damaging frauds chronicly disabling people with their treatments. Quacks causing iatrogenic brain damage and physical illness with their worthless brain damaging treatments go on to blame the chronic disability they cause on a nonexistent chronic brain disease. People who recover contradict their brain disease fraud. They'd have to admit that people like me who recover through self-determination and informed decision making know better than they do with their quack bio-medical babbling about correcting something with drugs that cause brain dysfunction. The drug industry doesn't profit from informed decision making, they profit from decisions made by a psychiatric quack corrupted by industry influence.

When a small fraction of the chronically psychiatrized do something violent there's no mention of the brain damage and dysfunction caused by the drugs or the withdrawal psychosis that results from abruptly withdrawing from drugs that are intolerable. The psychiatric quack is the expert, he can just point the finger at his patient. It wasn't his or her fucking wonder drug it was an underlying illness that he or she will find some fucking kind of evidence of someday. There's a need to blame an underlying mental illness.

Lies being told about me are being told for a reason. Lies about "schizophrenic" sounding religious or magical beliefs are most likely part of an effort to decontextualize my mental health problems. Place the blame on a genetic brain disease I've always had, something that was in my genes. They're lies being told to perpetuate a fraud.

Psychiatry and the drug industry don't make money on me being a intelligent, reasonable person living peacefully in my home. They make money on the chemical equivalent of an ice pick driven through my eye socket. They're not profiting from my programming skills here at joysoup.net. They profit from dehumanizing and demonizing me and attempting to link me to violence no matter how false and absurd the accusations are. They profit from any stigmatization including sexual stigmatization. It's all so a psychiatric quack can continue his horror and abuse and have nobody care.

12/16/2009 - Link

Just Admit It

Way too much is being made out of gangstalking. It's just being done to connect me to beliefs that are held by others that might be or might be considered delusional. Accusing me of having beliefs I don't have is like attacking a delusional strawman. It's just part of a campaign of vicious slander by people involved in activities that are either criminal or actionable in civil court. Nobody should let accusations like that detract from the facts. It's a fact that any surveillance is being conducted without my consent. It's a fact that it's being conducted by persons with no right to do what they're doing. It's a fact that those persons have no justification for what they're doing. It's a fact that they are persons I want nothing to do with. As far as I know they're private individuals with as much right to what they're doing as I would have to do the same thing to them.

There are a lot of really outrageous sexual comments being made. These comments are immature and completely inappropriate. Keep in mind I'm not someone who wants his privacy invaded in any way. Nothing about me sexually is anyone's business. It's harassing to be talked about sexually. I'd prefer that people I've had contact with not answer sexual questions about me. I value my privacy, if they're being paid they should at least ask for more money.

They should just admit to being cowards and liars that prefer to slander someone behind their back, saying that I'm violent or too stupid to talk to is completely ridiculous. I have no desire to harm anyone. Even though I think psychiatrists are the quacks and frauds they are I would never harm one even if my human rights are abused.

12/1/2009 - Link

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