I found this in Time magazine. It's a full page advertisement for a bipolar disorder drug, what a farce. To quote the add,
HOW ABILIFY IS THOUGHT TO WORK
Abilify may work by adjusting dopamine activity instead of completely blocking it and by adjusting serotonin activity.
However, the exact way any medicine for bipolar disorder works is unknown.
Huh doesn't sound they really know what the hell this drug does, kinda like prescribing amphetamines for ADD.
It goes on to say Abilify can cause tardive dyskinsia, how’s that for no big deal!
what the hell is this crap? obviously it is a very serious drug, yet so many people are on it that they feel the need to advertise in Time? I think I’ll do some research on aripiprazole,
Aripiprazole is what is actually in Abilify,
there are other telling side effects, like don’t operate heavy machinery among others I recognize as making this a nasty.
Lithium is really bad for your kidneys and liver
I have another horrible story about this ugliness.
My old roommate, Courtney, yes real person, comes from a pretty dysfunctional family.
Her father left when she was four and uses drugs.
Her mom made a career out of marrying rich guys, she’s on her second beside Courtney’s dad. Courtney had strange stories about partying with her parents in Mexico and dating her 40 something year old parents friend at 16 with her mom right there and encouraging it.
Great family.
Anyway Courtney had some issues but as the person who unfortunately shared an apartment with her for a year and a half,
I never saw any ADD behavior or any manic or depressed episodes,
supposedly people with bipolar disorder, become extremely manic and even hallucinate, then they crash into a depressed state. Both of these states are supposed to last over two weeks.
It is believed to be caused by the brain not regulating serotonin and dopamine properly, instead releasing them all at once causing a person to have a similar reaction almost to drugs like cocaine. The person is supposed to feel animated and high, then become depressed for a good period of time. Again these episodes are supposed to last two weeks or more.
They have this random thing called, mixed episodes, that I think are just like hyperactivity and ADD, an excuse to sell more drugs and to give an easy label to not easily labeled problems, like Courtney’s dad left when she was four and her mom was a jerk.
For all you stupid folks out there ADD is hyperactivity without the hyperactivity, huh?
A long time ago there was hyperactivity and some shrink in the 1930’s or so found that severely hyperactive kids, a real problem, calmed down some when given a low dose of amphetamines.
Over the next 60 years this has evolved into kids that get bad grades having ADD,
essentially hyperactivity without the hyperactivity and giving these kids amphetamines too.
This is how, according to the Adderall website, a fun and interesting place to research,
1 in 10 school age children has ADD.
In Courtney I saw a person with environmental problems. We met in college, she was a pain in the rear roommate.
I ran in to Courtney a little while back, Courtney had a bit of a drug and drinking problem, again she seemed to be environmentally upset, that’s why I moved out, years ago now. Well I ran into her last year and we hung out.
She of course pulled out a big bottle of Adderall the ADD amphetamine and Clonazepam, for Bipolar disorder.
She had told the doctor she was ADD to get the Adderall amphetamine because it was all over college campuses and she already had a minor drug problem.
The doctor shrink told her she was Bipolar as well and put her on Clonazepam.
She now snorts Adderall the amphetamine all the time, and takes it on a daily basis,
and she takes Clonazepam in the same way.
I went out with her a few times a year or more ago, but I finally stopped returning calls because I didn’t feel like being offered Clonezepam and crushed up Adderall, which is what going out with her included,
I am worried about her, but I couldn’t bring myself to call her and when I did the number had been changed.
So here we have a person with a drug problem and the idiot shrink gives them an almost free endless cheap supply of amphetamines and clonazepam?
She’s is not Bipolar, or ADD. I lived with her for a year and a half.
I saw no signs of any chemical imbalance, what these drugs are supposed to treat.
It seems like the fact that drugs are supposed to treat a chemical imbalance gets forgotten a lot in all the drug pushing!!
I know I shouldn’t tell people here this. Do not get this crack!!! They are giving Adderall to little kids though,
this is the kind of horror that goes on.
It makes me so angry,
Courtney had issues when I knew her but the last time I saw her she seemed like a drug addict, again she takes the drugs the shrink gave her every day or more
Just another person maimed by this nightmare of an industry.
I was reading what I wrote a ways back
I think I said something about the Soviet Union falling in relation to Mickey Mouse and jean jackets, this sounds dumb and simplified when I re read it.
I think I was just trying to say that the Soviet Union fell because people wanted it to fall as opposed to it being attacked from the outside.
I think people being allowed to organize opened flood gates, especially in the block countries All I know really, is it is amazing how peacefully comparatively it fell,
It says a lot as to what war brings about in relation to more peaceful evolution I guess.
I don’t think Mickey Mouse really had anything to do with it, more a wish for an end to abuses of power, and economic hardship and such.
There were jean jackets I know though and the Scorpions right?
Bipolar, ADD and Depression are all really common diagnosis. So many people I know are one or the other, or at one time or another have been put on drugs for one of the above. Especially for teens!
I think this is horrible, these drugs are deadly, many of them and most people do not have any sort of chemical disorder.
Again too, as a woman, hormones are no joke!
I probably shouldn’t go here but when I start my period, the same day, I notice noticeable chemical mood things, and I also notice that I start my period that day!!
What does this say about the average teenage girl in relation to a mood swing disorder?
Hmmmmm Teenage girls are supposed to have mood swings. I’m not just saying this, other women must know this too.
I have gotten teary at a commercial on the day I start my period.
And it is because of my period, it is the same day it starts, no strange coincidence there, and that’s the only time I have noticed any mood swings!
I am not making this up. There is something there.
If you asked your average person to describe a teenage girl, mood swings might come up. ADD they give you when you have problems in school, or behavior, especially boys because they tend to be more animated and act out physically!!
These disorders are being over prescribed and over medicated with dangerous snake oil drugs.
I don’t know why this is happening, I used to trust the FDA too but you can’t ok, I know for sure, have seen it myself, you can’t.
this is wrong and sick and needs to be stopped!!
Also if you have a family like mine who likes to keep order at all cost
or a strict somewhat abusive or nutty family
or you are a teenager and reacting to something that happened to you, crying or carrying on is enought to get you a disorder
of course if your family is like mine or abusive you have far more logical reason to be carrying on!
that good old catch 22, you react because you have a problem and they blame you for reacting to having a problem and then you really have a problem
It's the truth, not to compare everything back to history but this is real
