JLady

A ship lost in the night
I was searching for information on rispiridol on the web this morning and came across a site that says Doctors say that psychiatric medications "cause" brain damage and do not help chemical imbalances.

Psychiatric drugs damage brains and bodies in many ways and "have caused the worst plague of brain damage in medical history." -- Dr. Peter Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry. (1991); David Cohen, Ph.D. "A critique of the use of neuroleptic drugs in psychiatry."

New psychiatric drugs, like Clozapine & Rispiridol, are as damaging as older neuroleptics. They can cause, not "prevent", neurological disorders like Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) and the deadly Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS).
http://www.qsos.ca/qspc/nfc/myth2.html

What do you experienced parents know about this? I know the medication is helping with the ADHD. If Rispiridol helps with the agressiveness I would be thrilled. However, are we causing more damage?
 

klmno

Active Member
Using medications with our kids is always frightening- especially since they haven't been tested and "watched" on kids as much as with adults. But, I have heard of risperdal being used with several difficult child's- mine tried it as an add-on but we didn't have good luck with it. My son is a very difficult one when it comes to medications. He was also rx'd it for agression and sleep and manic issues (prn because these were intermittent- kind of).

Anyway, I don't think there is a major concern for it causing brain damage- actually, I'd never even heard of that as a risk at all. There are other web sites that give pretty useful info on medications and side effects; I don't know that I'd expect a lot of positive reinforcement from a resource titled "toxic psychiatry".
 

lillians

lillians
in my opinion only,, my child already has brain damage,, cannot live a reasonable life,,without medications ,,he yells out twitches,, and is so unsettled no one can be around him,, can yu imagine living a whole life time like that,,yu would end up truly nuts,,or hospitalized where they wouldnt care what they had to do to shut yu up,,or hated by everyone who knows yu,, because your behaviour *****,,,,i think a more orderly life is had by the medications,, do i like them,,nope!! it sickens me to death,,, but life has its ups and downs,, medications is a part of it,, there are side effects to everything in life,,aspirin,bacon ,,yu name it,, i would consider that the effects that are spoken here,are ifs,, at best,,my son has been on one or another medication now for 13 years,, he is so far tall, handsome and bright,,as he should be,, if in the end he has brain damage,,which ido not beleive,,, at least he led a reletively normal life prior,, and not shortened by not being able to fit in anyplace but the bad side of life,,
 

JLady

A ship lost in the night
Thanks for the quick replies. Thank you for the web link as well. What I read there was much more useful. It really is scary what they say medication can do.

I have to agree with you lillians. Not because of experience with my son but because of my own experience. I take medication daily. With it, I function just like everyone else. Without it, I'm a wreck and can't make it through the day without being in tears and falling apart. I much prefer to be able to function like everyone else.

You guys really are great.
 
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