Posted on 08/14/2007 7:07:09 AM PDT by SkyPilot
"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."
You're reading the words of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.
"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it."
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I like all your self-medication recommendations, and especially the last one.
:^>
There is TRUTH TO IT!
My neighbor was feeling depressed for understandable reasons - family fighting over estate money - very ugly legal fight going on ... she went to her doctor and she prescribed an antidepressant. Her doctor was thorough and warned her about side effects.
She got the prescription filled and re-read the side effects and took a pill. She was prescribed either Paxil or Prozac - forget which. Anyway she’s sitting there watching TV when the word SUICIDE flashed in her mind. She ignored it but it kept coming back - more intensely. Sine she KNEW this was a possible side effect she simply dealt with it and fought off the idea of suicide.
These drugs are NO GOOD. They mess with the chemicals in your brain ... it’s a chemical bandage that is UNPREDICTEBLE and doesn’t solve the ROOT PROBLEM.
There is TRUTH TO IT!
My neighbor was feeling depressed for understandable reasons - family fighting over estate money - very ugly legal fight going on ... she went to her doctor and she prescribed an antidepressant. Her doctor was thorough and warned her about side effects.
She got the prescription filled and re-read the side effects and took a pill. She was prescribed either Paxil or Prozac - forget which. Anyway she’s sitting there watching TV when the word SUICIDE flashed in her mind. She ignored it but it kept coming back - more intensely. Sine she KNEW this was a possible side effect she simply dealt with it and fought off the idea of suicide.
These drugs are NO GOOD. They mess with the chemicals in your brain ... it’s a chemical bandage that is UNPREDICTEBLE and doesn’t solve the ROOT PROBLEM.
“The article is about a loss of God in people’s lives.”
Yes!
“The article is about a loss of God in people’s lives.”
Yes!
“More likely with schizophrenia is that the brain goes on dreaming when the subject is awake and he can’t tell the difference between reality sensory input and the dreams or is confused about which is which.”
Yes, that’s partly true. But schizophrenics also don’t have the ability to screen and prioritize real voices and sounds. Every sound, every voice within earshot is equally important. A schizophrenic has a very hard time focusing on a personal conversation. They seem to think every person talking in a crowded room is talking to them personally.
I disagree with someone’s statement that all schizophrenics’ hallucinations are malicious. My sister is a disorganized (non-paranoid) schizophrenic. A disorganized schizophrenic is mainly very, very confused. We don’t read about these types of schizophrenics in the media because they never do anything violent. According to a pamphlet I read from Mayo Clinic, most schizophrenics are disorganized (vs. paranoid). As my sister now says, she is a “peaceful schizophrenic.” :)
At times my siser has had scary hallucinations, but nothing that made her dangerous or self-destructive. I would characterize her hallucinations as bizarre and often amusing. Before they got her meds right, she believed she had five husbands, one of them Prince Charles. LOL
By the way, schizophrenia is a hereditary disease which tends to skip a generation. My paternal grandfather was a paranoid schizophrenic. Genetically, I had a one in four chance of getting the disease. My oldest sister inherited the tragedyZ”: four children in the family, she was the one out of four).
“Sometimes, it is just like RF interference from a computer...you deal with be real causes of the problem, and the symptoms go away.”
Thank you for your honesty.
The ROOT cause must be addressed no matter how painful.
May God bless you for being so forthright.
The Journey has a lot of bumps and lows, but it also has many highs and joyful rides too. I hate it when we have to go over those rocky roads, sometimes it seems like they will never end.
With a mentally unstable child in the house on anti depressants why was he able to obtain a gun? Why weren’t precautions taken.
>>Can you share some methods for boosting serotonin? I recently was told by a family doctor to take Paxil, but I declined. Cure is worse than the disease.
Exercise is supposed to help. You should be in charge of youre own body. Doctors are not always right. You may want to do a google search for Dr Mercola.
I personally don’t take medications unless its something like antibiotics or aspirin. I just don’t trust the FDA’s judgement & I don’t like side effects that some medications provide.
I understand some of the article, but they lost me when they started talking about a spiritual problem.
My mom has always been a very devout Christian. She has a real personal relationship with Christ. She is not perfect, but she tries.
Well, my mom is also a manic depressive. She went crazy after my grandma died and my dad almost died. Her personality totally switched, and she was a danger to herself and to others.
My dad had to have her committed. She started taking lithium, and she got better. She only has tried to get off the lithium once, and she started going crazy again.
My mom is now 76 years old, and is very active in her church. She also has an antigue shop. She’s not perfect, but she is so much better thanks to the lithium.
I do think people go on anti-depressants too quickly, and they just might need talk therapy (or time) to make them feel better. However, some medications really do help.
Psychologist cannot give pills. They can only do talk therapy. Psychiatrist are medical doctors that can prescribe pills.
Researchers at Mayo identified 3 patients who developed compulsive gambling after being treated with either pramipexole or ropinirole — two drugs used to treat RLS. (Ropinirole is the drug advertised above. It’s trade name is Requip.) Here is the press release:
Compulsive gambling with extreme losses — in two cases, greater than $100,000 — by people without a prior history of gambling problems has been linked to a class of drugs commonly used to treat the neurological disorder restless legs syndrome (RLS). A new Mayo Clinic study is the first to describe this compulsive gambling in RLS patients who are being treated with medications that stimulate dopamine receptors in the brain. The Mayo Clinic report appeared in the Jan. 23 issue of Neurology (http://www.neurology.org).
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This preliminary Mayo Clinic report is the first to link pathologic gambling to use of dopamine agonists in a disease other than Parkinson. It is based on the experience of three patients who have RLS. Their gambling problems were discovered during their medical evaluations at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center. Although three patients is a small sample and larger studies are needed to validate these observations, the Mayo Clinic authors believe that the possible link between dopamine agonists and pathologic gambling behavior should be brought to physicians’ attention immediately due to the social and financial consequences resulting from the behavior.
http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2007/02/compulsive_gambling_a_possible.php
Yes luckystarmom , someone has already clarified it for me, thanks.
Lots of Psychologist send the patient to a Psychiatrist for pills.
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There are multiple kinds of schizophrenia. I have worked with the disorganized and paranoid. In taking the time to build a trust and understand them, one can discover what is going on in tgheir minds to a point.
One example...one fellow would constantly save the indides of old radios and computers. The parts with the tubes, etc. When I asked him what they representwed to him, his answer was immediate. They were scale models of airports, cities etc. You see, he believed he was an architect and all this made sense to him once a person took the time to “listen”.
The psychotropic meds he was given ‘calmed him down” so other staff could deal with him. Not my way of using meds. I am a psychologist (talk is my game) and cannot prescribe meds. That is the job of a psychiatrist and on many occasions, a regular med dr.
The medical model of which is used today treats mainly the symptoms of the illness, and less so the cause.Ever had a cold? What u get is meds that fix your runny nose, coughing, etc.
You wanna bet on that?
Cordially,
Manic depression is now called bipolar disorder and yes, lithiun is a drug of choice but with serious side effects.
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