Downcastmysoul

It seems as if the person I blogged about a few days ago is much better.  I think it’s the drugs, unfortunately….Taking the drugs in the first place when she didn’t need them created a dependency and then withdrawal created a psychotic like state…it’s as if her brain now NEEDS the drugs.  Furthermore, she is not sure what she signed and may be subject to coercive community mental health care when she gets out of the hospital.  Elyn Saks, in her highly inspirational book  The Center Cannot Hold insists she absolutely needs antipsychotic drugs to function and she’s brilliant.  She is also a diagnosed schizophrenic.  This person is not either schizophrenic or brilliant, LOL…but the drugs may have given her a schizophrenic brain.  I warned her that withdrawal would be hard and would be needed to be done slowly under a doctor’s care with meds to reduce the effects of withdrawal, but, of course, she listened to the dumb f*ck nurse practitioner who told her just to quit cold turkey after 9 months of use!!!  Antipsychotic drugs change the brain in far less time than that, try about 2 or 3 months for me!  She may be stuck doped for life unless she has the patience and forbearance to quit the poison pills.