Asperger Syndrome + un-managed SSRIs = mass murder
In my experience, SSRIs are not effective on Asperger’s. And psychiatry is totally ineffective in dealing with it. The cause is physical, is hereditary and they simply do not understand the mechanism. In my personal experience with family members it is an auto immune failure. I still cannot understand why it is lumped with Autism.
Add in the “fire and forget” mental health system.
What do I mean? Give them a pill that is not completely understoood and assume all is well. Mental illness requires more treatment than a psychotropic drug. Effective treatment requires monitoring and a stable environment. These things are all equally important. What we have now is a system that is horribly broken. We have mentally ill that abuse other drugs. We have mentally ill who have been on the same drug (same dosage) for so long that their brains have been permanently changed/altered. We have families (often broken families) who are too busy or uneducated to really help.
We don’t have enough resources to effectively treat the mentally ill and we rely too much on medication without knowing if the patient takes it or not. Our families are conditioned to believe treatment does not involve them - it is someone elses responsibility - often government run and funded. We no longer believe in counseling and monitoring and have put too many laws in place for professional mental health workers to discuss concerns with family and law enforcement.
We can’t have an honest conversation about the root of the problem because of the politics of guns. Broken families + broken mental health system + overhyped pharmaceutical solutions = ticking timebombs.
Add in the “fire and forget” mental health system.
What do I mean? Give them a pill that is not completely understoood and assume all is well. Mental illness requires more treatment than a psychotropic drug. Effective treatment requires monitoring and a stable environment. These things are all equally important. What we have now is a system that is horribly broken. We have mentally ill that abuse other drugs. We have mentally ill who have been on the same drug (same dosage) for so long that their brains have been permanently changed/altered. We have families (often broken families) who are too busy or uneducated to really help.
We don’t have enough resources to effectively treat the mentally ill and we rely too much on medication without knowing if the patient takes it or not. Our families are conditioned to believe treatment does not involve them - it is someone elses responsibility - often government run and funded. We no longer believe in counseling and monitoring and have put too many laws in place for professional mental health workers to discuss concerns with family and law enforcement.
We can’t have an honest conversation about the root of the problem because of the politics of guns. Broken families + broken mental health system + overhyped pharmaceutical solutions = ticking timebombs.