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The Shotgun Method (lemmy.world)

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https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/09/shotgun-method-mental-health-crisis-iceland/

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[–] GraniteM 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember an old commercial for Abilify:

"Are your current antidepressants not working? Try adding Abilify!"

Then follows the standard minute long rapid-fire list of dangerous side effects. Most of them are "normal": don't operate heavy machinery, strange dreams have been reported, beware of suicidal thoughts or actions.

But then there was one last one that stuck with me: "If you experience muscle spasms while taking Abilify, stop taking it at once, because these could become permanent."

Hooooly fuck. I would seriously consider just getting stoned out of my gourd on expensive cannabis every day if the alternative was that I might have permanent fucking muscle spasms.

Anyway, the state of the pharmaceutical industry is a goddamn nightmare.

[–] andros_rex 2 points 2 weeks ago

Anti psychotics can cause tardive dyskinesia.

Eg, say you are fourteen years old, and your mother doesn’t like that you talk about her smoking pot and forgetting to pick you up from school. So she tells medical professionals that you are violent, skipping school to do drugs, and hallucinating. Teenagers are always liars, so obviously you get slapped with a diagnosis of “paranoid schizophrenia” (despite schizophrenia being a disease that typically presents in early adulthood). They place you on abilify, then resperdal, than invega. You balloon up fifty pounds and develop a permanent twitch in your right leg, subtle but regular spasms in the hands, and probably permanent damage to your brains ability to regulate its emotions.

Then imagine the same people who did that are still operating a medical facility, and still doing this to children.