Mental Health, my experience and the role of medication
Hi my name is Simon. I have had a mental health diagnosis and have been put on various medications including sertraline which is an anti depressant, olanzapine an anti psychotic and clozaril.. which is also an anti psychotic but the last resort anti psychotic that is heavily restricted and can be very hard to get in some areas because it can be so dangerous!
Through coming on and off meds and going through all my experiences i have come to the conclusion that firstly medication is a pretty terrible way of dealing with mental health and this is just my opinion! Everyone is entitled to disagree. The problems i have had from going on and off medication to say have been huge.. is an understatement. To say life disrupting again is understating how much problems i have been through because of medication! And i will say that part of this is through coming off meds too quickly.. but this is the other point is the the profession has no idea how slowly you need to wean and will say yep you are quite low just come off with no idea actually how it affects you.
I know because i have weaned off clozaril twice and i know what happens!
So i believe meds is the wrong path and i believe meds also actually miss the entire point anyway of how to deal with mental health. When i realised what a bad system.. how you go to a doctor with depression or in my case it was labelled as schizophrenia.. and they immediately put you on medication which either they don't know all the problems that can come with it or they just don't bother to tell you and i hope its the first! Then at least they are not bad people they just don't know.
I thought i should make a webpage to make these points very well known. I am not one hundred percent sure what I will be doing on this webpage but to get the message out is the first point and go from there!
By the way my original idea was to offer some kind of counselling service and charge for it which I am no longer doing at least not right now. If anyone wants to talk to me you can email and we can have an informal discussion and you don't have to pay anything!
Contact details are below if you want to contact me for any reason.
