" you don't know the history of psychiatry. i do..."

Jun 28, 2005 13:52

dammit, i really want to see *war of the worlds.*

but people who've never really seen the suffering and ravages of mental illness up close and personal and shoot off their mouth like they understand it really piss me off.

now, if you know me, you know that i actually do believe psychotropics are over-used and sometimes improperly used. and you might even know that i weaned myself off prozac AMA after being on it for about five years. but you would also know that i've worked in the trenches with mentally ill adults and children for two decades. and you'd know i've seen psychotropics give some people back a life. i know the history of psychiatry, tommy boy. and until you've seen someone literally pluck out his eyes and blind himself because he couldn't tolerate the hallucinations anymore, sit your ignorant ass down, tom. until you've watch a mentally ill pubescent girl constantly tear out her abdominal stitches and have to spend her recovery in four point restraints, with even her head restrained so that she won't bite the flesh from her own shoulders, try to refrain from voicing your stupid opinions to a nation that still stigmatizes mental illness and doesn't come near to understanding it beyond the "chemical imbalance" thing. until you've witnessed the stabbing death of a gentle doctor you've worked with for years by a paranoid and psychotic man off medications, someone should muzzle you. until you've tried to calm someone down so that the oozing abdominal wound they've acquired by swallowing drain cleaner could be dressed, stfu, mr cruise.

let's just hope katie never develops a serious post-partum depression after she's popped out a few baby cruises. and then he returns home from the movie set to find them drowned and laid out on the bed with a dead kat beside them.
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