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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
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 kep 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. |
This also highlights another problem in psychiatry. Treatment is directed at the symptoms, since we don't know the cause. To speculated further, someone in the ER used the word "psychosis" after the alleged attack, and that term followed you through the facility and beyond. Risperadol is a second generation antipsychotic similar to Haldol. Even the outpatient psychiatrist reads "psychotic" and just ups the dose of risperadol. It takes her hours and hours to talk to you about the problem, but only 30 seconds to write a new RX.
Also, as you found out, a malpractice case under these circumstances is welcomed by lawyers like the plague. All that happens is the defense puts the plantiff on trial, tears you apart on the witness stand, and the chances of finding a jury that is not prejudiced against mental illness is minimal. We have a long way to go before we completely understand this family of illness and develop effective treatment.