So we give psychotropic drugs to mentally unstable people, then blame the drugs when people act mentally unstable?
Actually we blame guns and law abiding citizens when the mentally unstable are put on psychotropic drugs, become even more unstable and lash out.
The point is that those drugs pretending to make things better, actually makes things worse.
I think we can say that some people have chemical imbalances and that medications can help some of these people. Schizophrenics are a pretty good example. It is possible that some people with Major Depression can also be helped this way.
But I also think it is safe to say that these medications are over-prescribed and given to some people who are not helped by them and may in fact be hurt by them.
A lot of “mental illness” is just people who think wrong. “I am a victim”, “I deserve more”, “I deserve to be rich and famous, just because”.
There are many unhappy people in society and some of them seem determined to constantly be unhappy. They seem to work hard on that goal. Some form of effective counseling might benefit these people. But, instead, we medicate just about anyone and everyone, with powerful chemicals with known side effects.
Sometimes it goes badly.
Yes, we do. Even worse, we give psychotropic drugs to children / adolescents whose brains are still developing. It’s difficult enough to determine the “proper” drug and dosage for a fully developed adult, so how much more difficult must it be to prescribe drugs to a child? And when you consider that it is all to common for doctors and parents to turn to prescribing drugs to children for every and any imaginable reason, it’s not surprising to me how screwed up kids are today.
1. The link between use of such drugs and mass murder can't be denied at this point. There have been too many such cases, to the point where the FDA requires manufacturers of this class of drugs to put what are called "black box" warnings on the labels.
2. Now a person with your point of view might ask the old "chicken or egg" question. Did the mental illness come first or did the drug cause the mental illness. I don't think that's the right question to ask. One key question is why are so many young children (especially boys) given these powerful drugs? Another is what can we as a society do better in our handling of people with mental illness. Surely we can do better than what we have been doing for several decades, during which time we have:
allowed the mentally ill to roam homeless on our streets;allowed the massive increase in the use of such drugs;
seen a huge increase in mass murder.
It’s not the psychotropic drugs. It’s the Gerber Creamed Spinach.
Each of those killers ate Gerber Creamed Spinach as toddlers, so it must be the spinach, right.
BTW, Scientology is behind much of the anti-psychotropic drug movement.... and I don’t think we have to wonder why.
EXACTLY, it wasn’t that he was on medication that made him do it. It was that he wasnt on the right medication, or enough of it. I get so tired of people blaming the medication, its the underlying mental illness thats the problem.
Psychtropic drugs is the root cause of every single shooter.
Psychotropic drugs aren't just being prescribed for mentally unstable people. They've increasingly been prescribed for kids who are doing nothing more than exhibiting normal, rambunctious, childish behaviors.
There's actually an epidemic of over-prescription of psych drugs going on in our society.
Johnny's acting out in class? Political correctness forbids using old fashioned discipline and counseling to straighten him out, so let's just give him a pill to quiet him down.
It's been going on for decades. My wife and I began home schooling our kids for that very reason, sixteen years ago.
Based on my experience mentally unstable people are notorious for not taking their prescribed medications.
Robin Williams killed himself and he was taking lots of drugs doctors said would be good for him.