Neuroleptics ( Antipsychotics )

Deadly weapons in the hands of Psychiatry !

If you do not know how to help a patient, at least do nothing that will be harmful to him.

(Hippocrate)

Neuroleptics (antipsychotics) are among the most dangerous medications ever used in medicine. They are presently prescribed haphazardly by psychiatrists. In simple words, they are brain damaging chemicals.

They include the following chemicals: Chlorpromazine, Triflupromazine, Mesoridazine, Thioridazine, Acetophenazine, Fluphenazine HCl, Perphenazine, Prochlorperazine, Trifluoroperazine, Chlorprothixene, Thiothixine, Haloperidol, Loxapine, Molindone, Clozapine, Risperidone, Olanzapine, Quetiapine.

Neuroleptics have been used on mentally disturbed patients to suppress their emotions and render them passive and docile. Just as they have been used in tranquilizing darts for subduing and capturing wild animals, or in the former Soviet Union to control political dissidents. They suppress combativeness, hyperactivity, tension and hostility. It is an inhumane way to subjugate a human being.

Neuroleptics have dramatic side effects that are not explicitely mentionned in drug prospectuses nor are they clearly pointed out to patients or family's patients at the time they are prescribed. Rather than treating a disease, neuroleptics create another disease.

Besides the bla bla bla that is normally mentionned in illegible small font letters on prospectuses accompanying these medicines, every patient and every patient's family MUST be informed of their mode of action and their side effects. A Government legislation MUST be passed so that the following text be mentionned integrally in BOLD and LEGIBLE letters on each drug prospectus, warning users of their potential hazards.

MODE OF ACTION

The most frequently cited possible cause of mental illnesses (schizophrenia and others) is an abnormal hyperactivity of the dopamine neurotransmitter system in the brain. Neuroleptics (antipsychotics) inhibit dopamine nerve transmission in the frontal lobes and in the emotion-regulating limbic system of the brain. This inhibition is no different than surgical lobotomy. It is chemical lobotomy.

The frontal lobes and limbic system are the seat of higher human functions such as love, concern for others, empathy, self-insight, creativity, initiative, autonomy, rationality, abstract reasoning, judgment, future planning, foresight, will power, determination and concentration. Inhibition of this portion of the brain disrupts the total behaviour of the patient.

WARNINGS

Mentally disturbed patients and family of mentally disturbed patients should be put well aware and at the very onset of prescription of the drug, of the consequences of treatment with neuroleptics (antipsychotics) namely:

1) that neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medication is brain-damaging and brain-mutilating, nothing less than chemical lobotomy.

2) that chemically lobotomized patients lose their personality. They become "robotic" as the result of the damage caused to their frontal lobes and limbic system. Typical changes are apathy, lack of initiative, loss of memory and concentration, emotional indifference and loss of deeper feelings and tenderness.

3) that Tardive dyskinesia (TD) a movement disorder, affecting any of the voluntary muscles, is most likely to occur in 50% of mentally disturbed patients treated with neuroleptics. The condition strikes usually after 6 months to 2 years of treatment and is incurable. Twisting tongue movement, puffing cheeks, smacking of lips, sucking movements of the mouth, face and body movements characterized by continuous rocking motions, tremors and bizarre postures, just to name a few are such symptoms.

Neuroleptics may have a limited use in psychiatry but cannot replace psychotherapy.