And welcome to you too, General Ripper.
Great album, but I don’t know if I could listen to it for 72 hours straight.
Yes, you know, someone can have psychiatric issues and also encounter extreme incompetence from the psychiatrists they see. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
A lot of people are going, “Yes, a five-minute diagnosis and a lifetime script for powerful medication is fucked up, but you obviously have issues.” Why can’t it be, “You obviously have issues, but a five-minute diagnosis and and a lifetime script for powerful medication is fucked up”?
If this type of procedure is the default response when someone is seen for psychiatric issues, no wonder there is such a mental health problem in society.
I hope you’re saving all of these posts to present to your MD when you go for that ‘second opinion’.
Good luck** KGS**, I think you’re going to need it somehow. 
Explain the “poor timing” thing. My guess is that they thought it was necessary to do what they did when they did it. Where would timing, poor or otherwise, come into it?
By “poor timing” I mean that I wasn’t having a psychotic break AT ALL, I was just reacting badly to a very close relationship that suddenly went south. Sure, I went nutty for a bit, but so does anyone under those circumstances. I was actually starting to pull myself back together when the police showed up…
Huh. Your “nuttiness” must have been quite dramatic for someone to want you locked up. The Break-up Blues are common. But if people are concerned enough to request intervention, it’s clearly not what “anyone does under those circumstances.”
When most people react badly to a close relationship breaking up, they don’t suffer the delusion/s of heading off on a spaceship necessitating the attendance of the police and a carting off to the psych ward mate.
What’s YOUR definition of a psychotic meltdown then??
Why don’t you tell me? Apparently I’m on the inside looking out, here.
P.S. You’re confusing two separate events in your last post.
Risperdone, like many other medicines, may take more than one dose to take any real effect. You threw away your entire prescription based on one dose? That’s crazy! (sorry)
If your friends have to drag you to the emergency room, you seriously need some damn help. Yes, you should get another opinion, but listen to it and follow it this time.
That’s what Jeffrey Dahmer said!
KGS, I’m not here to tussle with you. Mine aren’t ‘fightin’ words, but I just hope and wish that you get to a Dr who knows their shit, and can give you the medical and psychological support that you need right now.
'Cos your posts aren’t coming over all that coherent and I’m worried is all.
Cheers and good luck mate!
But it takes only one dose to trigger side effects, which I just read up about and now I’m even more pissed. Turns out this poison can actually trigger a sharp spike in blood sugar, which can simulate or even TRIGGER diabetes. No wonder I’m experiencing blurred vision, hot flashes, and profound thirst right now…right after a major CK attack, too! Nice, very nice. (And please, no litany about “Call Your Doctor!”, I’m already scheduled to see him this afternoon.)
However, you’re all correct that I shouldn’t have flushed the medication…it’s been ten years since I took any prescribed meds, I forgot that’s no longer kosher. Sorry, fishies.
No worries friend, and apologies if I came across as too hostile. I’m still a little punch-drunk, having possibly nearly died this weekend and all…
You’re misreading the post…
In the 90s, KGS got a little goofy when he/she lost this relationship, and the parents had a “poorly-timed” intervention.
The other day, KGS hadn’t slept in 9 days and an internet friend called 911. He/she was looking forward to the spaceship/ambulance ride.
Where’s the scam, here? It sounds like you recognize you were in the midst of a very severe manic episode. It’s 99% likely that you were given a pretty thorough eval during your hospitalization and the prescription was provided by the psychiatrist who treated you, not the social worker.
Sounds like you needed care and received it.
BTW, manic episodes are not part of Asperger’s Disorder.
Oh, of course, sorry to be so obtuse…:smack:
:rolleyes:
Oh, I don’t know, some of my inlaws are screwed up enough that I tend to be suspicious if one is calling someone else crazy. I’ve got a sister-in-law who goes “mountain out of a molehill” often enough that (seriously) if she told me that one of her parents was dying right now, I’d suspect they might have some minor ailment. Then there’s my “unmedicated because I love the manic highs and admit it (that make everyone else miserable)” father-in-law with bipolar disorder. He’s managed to lose all but one of his friends due to being a jerk, yet he actually talks about how crazy some of his daughters are and doesn’t seem to get the irony and/or causality?
Some families are toxic and/or crazy enough to manage to do the absolute wrong thing in a given situation, including letting someone hang out to dry when they need help and then overreacting at the worst time. Others may feel guilty about their past inaction and flip out at the next sign of potential problems.
KGS, good luck with getting decent medical help. Hit a website like MEDLINEplus and check side effects/interactions before starting a new medication, so that way if something happens you’re aware of the problem more quickly and can call a doctor for advice. Sometimes the drug’s website has more information, if that or the packaging isn’t informational enough.
Dammit, took too long editing. Here’s my follow-up.
That being said, Hentor is probably right about how the prescription came about - the social worker was doing an “exit interview” of sorts and merely passed along the evaluation and prescription. I might question how accurate the evaluation was considering the context - if they apparently didn’t contact your other doctors, they might well not have had access to previous records, or only incomplete records (working in the medical field I know how tough it is to get records, figure out where someone’s been seen, etc., even when you have the rights to get the info), so anyway, good on you for continuing your medical care even though you’re pissed at how you were treated then.
“ER”-style visits are very much intended to just get you on your feet and have the continuous care-type doctors (i.e., non-ER) actually fix you up, and it sounds like this is what you experienced. It’s like when I broke my wrist; I got an x-ray, a splint not a cast, a scrip for Vicodin (which made me vomit), and sent out with a referral to an orthopedist. They got you out of that episode, gave you a scrip that you had bad side effects from, and sent you out with a referral too. You don’t have to follow all of their recommendations, like I found my own orthopedist and have learned that the one they referred to has had a lot of unsatisfied customers; likewise you should go with a doctor you’re comfortable with. Emergency doctors aren’t always right about their diagnoses, especially if they don’t have your whole history to work with, but they save your life, and it’s the next doctor’s job to really work on what’s wrong.
Have you considered getting audited?