Posted on 08/12/2008 5:51:47 PM PDT by Jenny Hatch
Sanders Turns Blind Eye To Victims, Sponsors Deadly MOTHERS Act
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Amy conducted an email interview for this article. Here is the portion that mentions my story:
"In 1988 Jenny Hatch was placed in a Michigan state mental institution for postpartum psychosis and drugged with Haldol. She stayed there for nine days until she could be transferred to a private hospital, where she says she fought back with the staff on the medication issue for two weeks.
Ultimately the private hospital sent Jenny back to the state hospital and she fought medications for six more days, telling everyone that she was breastfeeding a baby and could not take their drugs. A judge then ordered “90 days additional incarceration in the hospital and forced meds.” She was sent back to a private hospital where they forced Lithium, Stelazine, and Prozac.
When she became extremely suicidal on Prozac, the Stelazine was withdrawn and the Prozac was doubled. Ultimately after finally leaving the hospital, Jenny located a doctor who helped her wean off all medications over a six-month period. She also followed up by beginning a full body detoxification and then went on to have four more children, fortunately with zero psychiatric pills to follow.
Over the past 18 years Jenny has advocated against forced drugging and her story has been publicized in various magazines and books. But for psychiatry, old habits die hard.
In a recent blog entry, Jenny wrote about two women who had contacted her who had a history of psychosis and were told that if they ever had any more children, they would be ordered to take antipsychotic drugs for two full years following the births in order to “prevent” PPP.
Similarly, New Jersey’s “MOTHERS Law,” passed in 2006, has already resulted in mothers being forcibly taken to the hospital by police simply for mentioning to their doctors they were depressed or calling a PPD hotline. Force is certainly nothing new in psychiatry, and in fact it has been central to the field for its entire history. It seems that the drug pushers care only about maintaining income at all costs. Those caught by psychiatry cannot be called patients at all but rather, victims."
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That woman who murdered her 5 children in Texas was on those medications. What the hell are they trying to do?
There are two sides to this issue, and it’s never easy finding the right middle ground where mental illness is involved. It’s awfully unfortunate that Andrea Yates wasn’t hauled off to a mental hospital and kept drugged. A desire to breastfeed isn’t a good reason to leave a woman who is in full-blown psychosis unmedicated.
Ummm, no, Andrea Yates had gone OFF her meds when she killed her 5 children. She was also off her meds on a previous occasion when she carved “666” into her scalp. Some people really need to be on meds, and some need to be locked up to make sure they take their meds and don’t kill people.
If you will take the time to read the article by Amy Philo, you will see that the decision makers are all being influenced by drug manufacturers, with huge financial ties and conflicts of interest.
Andrea Yates was hauled off to a mental hospital and drugged within an inch of her life, then sent home “cured” where she murdered her five children.
My question is, who gets to decide if a person gets medicated? Drug manufacturers and doctors who all make a living off the damaged brains of the American People? Or the mentally ill themselves?
I have used alternative healing for eighteen years with great success to heal my damaged body and mind.
Who gets to decide?
Jenny
“Who gets to decide” depends a lot on the nature and degree of mental illness involved. I have a half sister who is schizophrenic and has managed to avoid being medicated all her life by taking advantage of laws and policies that say she has the right to refuse treatment. As a result, she lives in a cardboard box with a tarp over it near the Texas-Mexico and sometimes “explains” that she has to stay there because she is “guarding the border”. In her mid-50s, she has no teeth left due to a combination of rotting out and getting bashed out in fights with similarly mentally ill drifters. When her mother was found murdered about 10 years ago, she was the first suspect — in a way, it’s too bad she turned out to have been hundreds of miles away, since until she kills someone or makes a serious attempt to, she will be left to rot. Needless to say, this has pretty much emotionally destroyed our father and my half brother.
Yates wasn’t sent home “cured”, she simply hadn’t done anything quite crazy enough quite recently enough to form a basis under current law for keeping her institutionalized.
Just because drug manufacturers have a financial incentive to push drugs, doesn’t mean that nobody actually needs drugs. And in the case of mental illness, the illness often prevents the patient from understanding that s/he needs drugs. And no, drugs aren’t a magic bullet, but they’re generally effective at preventing the mentally ill person from committing murder. Nearly every time you read an article about a mentally ill person who had been on medication committing a murder or other seriously violent act against anyone other than themselves, the crime occurred shortly after the person had gone OFF the medication.
http://www.drugawareness.org/the-aftermath.html
Check out this article by Ann Tracy. It is compelling reading.
Jenny
Hi, Thanks Jenny for posting. The Government should have absolutely nothing to do with forcing screening or drugs on anyone. Just because something is FDA approved does not make it safe or even effective.
Furthermore people living with mental illness have nutritional deficiencies or hormone problems that can be addressed safely without drugs that are marketed for the “disorders” - and that is assuming there is actually something wrong with the patient.
A patient should be allowed to refuse drugs, that is a basic human right. Someone who has committed no crime should not be locked up like a prisoner...
And just to clarify, the antipsychotic drugs perform worse than a placebo, the antidepressants perform worse than a placebo, they can make you kill yourself or your children. Look up REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. This is what state Andrea Yates was in when she killed her kids.
BTW, Andrea Yates was on a cocktail of drugs just two days before the murder. They cold turkeyed her off Haldol, dropped her Effexor dose from like 450 to 300 mg, and she was on the maximum dose of both Effexor and Remeron, both antidepressants, when she killed her kids. Nobody should ever cold turkey off the drugs and that is stated in an FDA warning. If the drugs work so well to prevent suicide and murder then how come just about every mom who kills her kids is on the meds or in abrupt withdrawal, and how come 86% of the people committing suicide are taking the drugs... that doesn’t show any benefit now does it. Also see the January NEJM issue for the article showing the unpublished data finally published proving antidepressants do not work for depression.
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