Aren’t psychiatrists something special?
Top French psychiatrist Samuel Lepastier said it was highly likely Lubitz was suffering from schizophrenia given the strong medication he was on – notably Olanzapine, whose side effects can include “unusual changes in personality, thoughts or behaviour; hallucinations and suicidal tendencies”.
“It is highly likely he was schizophrenic, given the medication he was taking,” Dr Lepastier, head of research at Paris Diderot university told The Telegraph.
He’s on medication so he must be sick so he must need medication which must mean he’s sick, and so on.
Reminds me of that joke where a Russian man says that his French wife is OK. She’s dirty but otherwise fine.
“What d’you mean, she’s dirty?” his buddy asks.
“Well, she showers every day!” the man explains.
Also, note the side effects of this “medication.” I wonder what original symptoms can justify inflicting this horror on oneself. It’s like that scary ad for medication for women who experience vaginal dryness during menopause. It promises side effects in the form of stroke, heart attack, paralysis, and a litany of other terrifying things.
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The mind is a very delicate electrical, chemical structure. It’s far to easy for damage of any kind to produce unexpected and in some cases horrific behavior. What is least understood is interactions between medicines and environmental factors, which provides a level of variation and uncertainty to results.
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“Also, note the side effects of this ‘medication.’ I wonder what original symptoms can justify inflicting this horror on oneself. ”
The symptoms of schizophrenia — which very severe mental disorder — can include personality defragmentation, total inability to think rationally or take even basic care of yourself, dreadful irrational fears and suicidal thoughts, auditory hallucinations, violent paranoid and grandiose hallucinations, and uncontrollable urges to harm yourself or other persons.
This is a REAL disease, and anti-psychotic medications like olenazine have been clinically proven to control the severe symptoms. There’s no longer a legitimate debate about this.
Perhaps if this pilot had remained on his medication, he would have remained rational enough not to slaughter 150 innocent people.
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“While olanzapine is used therapeutically to treat serious mental illness, occasionally it can have the opposite effect and provoke serious paradoxical reactions in a small subgroup of people, with the drug causing unusual changes in personality, thoughts or behavior; hallucinations and suicidal ideation have also been linked to olanzapine use”
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I have witnessed absolutely healthy children being prescribed these meds in order to make them more convenient. These drugs are being over prescribed like there’s no tomorrow.
By the way, psychiatry is not even trying to claim that it can cure any mental illness whatsoever .
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Psychiatry has saved many lives (prevented suicides and irrational violent acts) through appropriate medication and other interventions, and has made many other disturbed people’s lives vastly more normal and fulfilling. The psychiatric record of successfully treating severe adult mental illnesses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, etc.) is quite good. The goal is to control the symptoms so the people can live more normal lives; the illnesses themselves are incurable.
It’s true that troublesome children are sometimes over-diagnosed and prescribed medications of dubious usefulness for poorly-defined diagnoses, but to
condemn the entire field of psychiatry based on your limited observations of a subset of patients is inappropriate.
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People should feel absolutely free to consult any and all specialists that they want to consult. However, I reserve the right to provide a tiny little space on my blog to discuss the limitations of the psychiatric approach to mental illness and let people know that there are other, much more successful methods of treating mental illness. I have no idea why I always encounter so much resistance to any such discussion. It’s not like I have the power or eve the interest to wrestle people’s pillboxes out of their hands.
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I’m not resisting your discussion at all, Clarissa. I’m simply participating — stating my counterpoint — and I’m doing so because I appreciate the fact your blog has always allowed dissenting views without insulting the commentator or banning him/her. (We’re all familiar with a FEW famous blogs where this isn’t the case.)
As long as you allow this “freedom of comment” policy, I’ll feel welcome to add my two cents now and then — and hopefully my opinions won’t be taken the wrong way.
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You are always welcome here, Dreidel. 🙂
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