I’ve worked with mentally handicapped people for decades. When in college I worked at a group home. One of the clients became agitated and violent. He was a very smart and clever downs syndrome fella. So he got a stick and began smashing a wall with it. I could have easily taken the stick away and calmed him down.
The ladies at the place called the cops. I was not happy but I was a college kid and they were “professionals”. The cops came and looked at me like I was a pussy. They cuffed the poor guy and next thing he was on lithium. May as well have lobotomized the guy.
He developed Tardive dyskinesia and looked like he had Bells Palsy.
Anyway. Drugs suck. Since the 80s, these azzholes have decided that anybody who acts out needs some friggen experimental mind numbing drug. After the lobotomy craze was deemed cruel. Kennedys.
Thank God I didn’t get a dose of that crap. A nun smacking me was quite enough. Give it to the mentally handicpped. Fvck around and find out. Fauci’s ilk and legacy.
You really are ignorant about psychtropuc drugs..lithium doesnt have the side effect of tardive dyskinesia. Lithium does not lobotomize.
You have no perspective or knowledge on drugs.
Your ignorance would have left people in insane asylums.as used to be the case
After I got my degree in Social Work, I worked with high-functioning mentally retarded adults for 8 years-mostly in a group home/independent living situation. I loved my clients-some of the most honest folks I ever worked with, and I never felt unsafe, even when I did overnight shifts-I also saw what happened to those who were given psych meds to make them docile-it was dehumanizing and heartbreaking to see-so I agree with you-drugs suck-electroshock therapy is almost kind in comparison to the side effects of psych drugs.
People who think those drugs are so good have never seen someone zoned out and twitching or drooling in a near catatonic state on Lithium, or doing the Thorazine shuffle...