>>7616352Its not psychiatry that is at fault, it's the drugs. The existance of mental disease is obvious and so is the need for specialized care, but not with these specific kind of "antipsychotic" drugs formerly know as major tranquilizers. These drugs don't work. They just don't work. If they worked, like painkillers work, people would take them like candy. They don't work for the purpose they were created. But patients are still fed these drugs anyway, and in some cases they are FORCEFULLY injected with them.
The worst part of schizophrenia are not the voices and delusions, and antipsychotics only dampen voices and they do absolutely nothing for delusions. When a schizophrenic is drugged up he might start denying his delusions but that's just to escape the doctors clutches.
The worst parts are the anxiety, paranoia, loss of emotion, cognitive decline and catatonia. The drugs do absolutely nothing for these, while making them worse in a lot of cases in such a way that all types of schizophrenia are "equalized". The way that it usually happens is like this. A paranoid schizophrenic will come with delusions and paranoia, then after drugs, he will have loss of emotion and shaking and rigidness similar to a catatonic schizophrenia. Then a disorganized schizophrenic comes in unable to speak and perform normal activities. After drugs, he starts experiencing paranoia and severe anxiety. Then comes the undifferentiated schizophrenic who has hallucinations and voices and occasionally starts yelling at the floating people outside his window that won't shut up. After durgs, he becomes unable to express himself through speach as in disorganized schizophrenia.
This fact is always ignored and nobody cares about it, all they care about is that the patient is now sedated or incapacitated enough to not be a nuisance for anyone around him. But this isn't surprising because even the very obvious side effects like death, diabetes and akathisia are not given any importance at all.
