My Body Can't Handle Ssris... Can Anyone Recommend Other Ptsd Meds?

[goingonhope]

Mental health professionals... WAKE THE F*CK UP to yourselves and listen to your patients! Please...

Here's a very good 2010/2011 book which I am almost through: "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America", Author: Robert Whitaker. This book really should be a must read, or at the very least - a must be informed of, prior to people accepting psychiatric medications.



As for the subject of this thread it is very hard for me to read while being unable to transfer the knowledge contained within this books pgs. and it's excellent material.

I am beyond digust from all the cluelessness, deception, greed, indifference and life-altering results from this era, the pharmacuetical industry and many, many of our Mental Health Professionals.

Of course this book is not about Ptsd, rather its a history of psychiatric medications, a wide eye-opener and book of experience and researched outcomes of just how well these are working.

 

[anthony]

I know what you mean Hope... medications are extremely heavily regulated here, so physicians can't be as neglectful here, which I think is lucky due to the endless streams of regulations in this country. I have a book on medications myself, purely for anxiety and depression, and I concur, people are blinded by the BS being fed to them by lazy physicians who normally have monetary gain from prescribing specific medication types... pharmaceutical companies have too much influence between doctor patient aspects by tainting the doctors.

A lot of the older medications used actually use to work for people, hence why they don't use them now. They tainted studies to show the contrary, yet those studies have all been exposed for the fraud they are as well, by subpoena's on all data submitted versus what got published.

I would love to read any feedback you have on that book though... your insights and interpretations of it.

 

[goingonhope]

Of course this book is not about Ptsd, rather its a history of psychiatric medications, a wide eye-opener and book of experience and researched outcomes of just how well these are working.

Unfortunately, I am better at learning then I am now at discussing, but I'll give it a bit of a try.

My interpretation is that this book disucusses how at epidemic rates the very drugs being prescribed for psychiatric symptoms and treatment are creating problems of additional diagnosis, cognition and physical health impairments, sacrifices and in a number of cases deterioration. The author is very interested in any long term side effects and recorded outcomes as well. Side-effects and outcomes which psychiatrists don't speak of, nor many wish to hear of.

The book discusses the alarming increase in diagnosable MH conditions and even the increasing disability rates, psychiatric dependence rates and more, following the marketing, flooding and use of SSRI's, and a number of
other MH medications.

What I will do is attempt to say no more here and create another thread with some discussion of the material covered within this book, there.

 

[amethist]

Hubby saw the Psych this morning and we did get somewhere and he did have some knowledge about PTSD, and did seem to understand what we/hubby was talking about. But as I has guessed, hubby crashed with the effects of the meds and anxiety of being there and not expecting to be listened to, which has been the case so many times before, as we all know.

No med changes as such just yet, but advised to reduce them from the now 40mg in another week down to 30mg, followed 2 weeks later to 20mg, and stick at that for at least 2 months.

No follow up appointment, but his community support is going to monitor progress and repoert back the the Psych.

Once they have cleared his system, we start back at the beginning with exposure therapy, as advised today to get him to go out, and be able to live a better life than he is now.

I did ask about older meds that could possibly better, but was told, :rolleyes: that the side effects of the older meds were far worse then the newer ones. Basically he was following guide lines and sticking to his guns, and asking about anxiety only meds was another no go area for now. But we can go back at a later date if his community support see that this is what is needed, and he will guide us how to push further.

So at least a few steps forward for now, and at least meds were not put up but down, so hopefully hubby will be less of a Lifeless zombie for Christmas.

 

[amethist]

Hubby is now down to 20 mgs a day of his Paroxetine, and doing better for the reduction. He was already down to 40 mgs a day when we saw the psych doc, but struggled big time with the drop to 30 mgs.

He can now think clearer, work out why he is anxious clearer, and deal with it a lot easier.

He was set a challenge of going out 4 times before his next CPN appointment, he has done that this week alone. So will probably up into double figures by the time he has the appointment.

We are even going to look at a car this afternoon, ready to pick up after he as been on his 4 day PTSD course, if it is OK.

So when Anthony mentioned about reducing meds instead of putting them up could be the solution, he is on the right road as far as we are concerned.

Hubby is still anxious about going out, but it is different now, he wants to and tries. Before the med reduction, besides being zombified, he was too scared to open the door some days.

So slowly does it, but he is on the right path now.