subdue a person without putting them to sleep.
The experience of psychosis can be very distressing and confusing.
People who've never experienced it can never understand. They just
vilify and pathologise the individual for their behaviour without know
what's going on inside them.
Psychosis is an internal experience of supposed delusions or
hallucinations. Antipsychotics weren't designed to treat this. They may
or may not do. It's of little relevance to psychiatrists but I think
it's all that patients want. The drugs aren't designed to relieve the
internal experience, just the outside one. They're just like a chemical
straitjacket. And they reduce life expectancy and life quality.
The public and carers assume that antipsychotics treat the internal
experience that causes the distress. Even the most dangerous drug,
clozapine, doesn't do this for every patient. The reduction in the
intensity of the hallucinations or delusions may be a result of the
placebo or Hawthorne effect.
This psychiatric lie is important to note.
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