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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Tal, so sorry that you had to go through all that. You are not alone, millions have shared your plight. Unfortunately, mental illness is like the 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one talks about. And psychiatry is more like voodoo than medicine.

The other problem is that once a person is "labelled" with a psychiatric diagnosis, they are treated differently by society and the medical profession alike, and most credibility goes out the window. Just think about how your well documented complaints were received.

Could you have been admitted for what sounds like an anxiety disorder and never seen an attending psychiatrist? Probably not, you were drugged and not thinking straight, but it is possible. Half the psychiatrists need therapy themselves, I just think back to which individuals in my medical school class went into psychiatry. There was one "psychiatrist" in my small hometown that impregnated a patient that was homeless and living on the streets. He made Anthony Wiener look like an altar boy.

Back to the drug question--there are A LOT of psych meds and psychiatrists tend to be into polypharmacy. This isn't my specialty, but I'll speculate a bit. In the ER they were likely to use a benzodiazepine anxiolytic such as lorazepam or alprazolam. Given the alleged attack on a nurse, they may have also decided to use a neuroleptic antipsychotic such as haloperidol or prolixin, possibly with Cogentin to minimize anticholinergic side effects. Afterwards, if they assessed the problem to be anxiety related, they probably would continue an oral benzodiazepine, and if I remember correctly, around the year 2000, psychiatrists were in love with Seroquel and trazodone for the longer term.

Lastly, if anyone in the "peanut gallery" launches a personal attack upon you for relating this story, they would be writing out of total ignorance, and could use some psych meds themselves. Hope this helped

Thanks Golfing Eagles. I had gone onto Findlaw in 2002 to sue for malpractice the psychiatrist in the outpatient facility for about 1.5 years I had but the only law firm I could find which would even take my case wanted what seemed to take on everything and I did not seem ready for that nor would have been my family. And my father really wanted me to leave it alone.

It is easier to just tell the story with as many backup documents as possible on Facebook and then hope people will really dig into it. I am now getting a lot of help with that as far as I can tell. 20,124 views the last I looked on my Photobucket Album.

I do remember risperidone being one drug that the psychiatrist kept me on. This is the one that would just shake her head and up my dosage when I told her there was something else external to me going on. She would also say that is not my job to look into other matters. Risperidone - Wikipedia

I tried to get the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMIs) Tampa Bay Chapter to help with this-- as it was weaponizing the mental health system to cover up what I still see as crimes-- but the woman in charge's daughter was under the care of this psychiatrist and she thought her quite good with her daughter. My bad luck popping up again.

I do believe that more people use psychiatry as a weapon but I really only have my experiences to go on.

And, of course, there are many people who really need these drugs I was just dealing with something else entirely.

The Scientologists were interested in doing a story on my experiences but I kind of thought they would use it for purposes quite foreign to mine. And I do not like it when people paint with too broad a brush which I often find in the Scientologist's attacks on psychiatry in general. Tom Cruise's rants for instance. My problem was with this one psychiatrist that only wanted to push pills and get me onto the welfare roles for people who are disabled. I refused to use this whole set of experiences to live off the government.