Consumer Reports reasons that Bristol-Myers Squibb is promoting Abilify for depression because only a limited number of people have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Depression, on the other hand, is a veritable cash cow among mental-health conditions. One in seven people will experience a depressive episode at some point in their lives. If you want to sell upwards of $2 billion a year of a drug, that's the kind of market you need.
Gotta wonder just how many of those diagnosed with depression and prescribed Abilify ... will then be reevaluated for possible "schizophrenic or bipolar tendencies" based on a perceived "improvement" while under the effects of Abilify.
That is a great point! After having the SSRI reaction, I went to another doctor and was immediately (clinically) diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He said, " Sounds like somebody is bipolar". This was based on my symptoms from the SSRI! Then the good doc tried to make me take seroquel for this "so-called" bipolar and when I refused, he kept trying to get me to admit to wanting to harm myself or others. I found out later that if you admit that, they can lock you up in the psyche ward. Quack alert.
And I also had the feeling of being pushed from the back of the head but kind of from inside the head. I know exactly what that is. Most people call them brain-zaps but it feels more like someone shoves your head from behind really hard and it is difficult to regain balance. It is a scary feeling and I never had it before the SSRI. It's difficult to describe but it is common in people taking SSRI's. Mine comes and goes and still scares me even though I know it will end.
So, yes, if you are poisoned by a med, it will eventually be blamed on you and an "underlying disorder" that you have, not the poisonous drug that damaged your central nervous system. This must be what doctors are sold at their pharma conventions. "It's candy, this med couldn't possibly do ...blah blah blah...etc.It must be something else", they say.
There is a reason only 2 countries in the world allow advertizing of pharmaceuticals (the US, of course being one of them). When profit and healthcare are married, people will suffer because of the greed of human nature.
Has anyone heard what meds the psychiatrist at The base in Texas was taking when he shot up the place? I heard they found a box full of prescription meds at his apartment but nothing else about it. Funny how the media almost always sweeps psyche-meds under the carpet when people start shooting people.
