Learning to Play

Sorry, but this article proved NOTHING by way of the "brain causing personality."

How do you know that the EXPERIENCE of the rod going through that man's head didn't cause his personality to change?
And are humans dogs? Do they simply have just 6 different types of personalities? Are we really that simple?

Because if we were, you would have figured out that MEDICATIONS DO NOT HELP A SINGLE PERSON. Everyone is different.

God damn, psychiatrists are stupid fucking people. Those drugs kill. Period.

Fuck you.

WebMD Self-Reports:

Cymbalta:

http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-91491-Cymbalta+Oral.aspx?drugid=91...

Paxil:

http://www.webmd.com/drugs/drugreview-6968-Paxil+Oral.aspx?drugid=6968&d...

Read through some of those for a warm fuzzy. There are plenty of others from the same psycho-pharm drug classes. Toss in the rancid anti-psychotics Seroquel and Abilify now being pitched for depression and you have the drug addled nightmare that psychiatry has become.

So let's see, when a person's sex life falls of the table, their sleep is messed up, they gain 35 pounds, have neurological weirdness going on, liver failure, cardio-vascular problems, blah, blah, blah - could those drug induced symptoms change someone's personality? Well yeah, so I suppose you are correct in your claim.

You know what? You got nerve pitching psycho-pharm as pixie dust given the wreckage that these drugs have caused. Not one sentence on some of the miserable side-effect and withdrawal profiles. Shilling for Pharma. Pathetic.

Have you been talking to drug kingpin Peter Kramer?

I certainly agree that these drugs have consequences, both good and bad. I do not mean to say that everyone should take these medications. I do mean to say that we have to look at what we are treating. Often, the treatment is for personality traits. I share the concerns.

Re: "If we opt for a different personality and there are medications that can help us with that, is that wrong?"

I know: "Let's see, I feel like "Alpha-Male" today. Let me check the medicine cabinet."

I'm sorry. I read this article again and apart from the toxicity of psycho-pharmaceuticals, it is almost sophomoric in its inane simplicity.

I wonder if someone can be concurrently clueless and ashamed.

Like many (most?) psychiatrists, Vollmer appears to have had almost no training in psychology.

Psychologists have developed different personality temperament models for decades. So Vollmer goes and references work done on dogs!!!

In the Myers-Briggs human temperament model, people become distressed because the secondary and tertiary components of their Type are poorly developed. Temperament is fixed. It's strengthening the less dominant characteristics that improves a person's world and self-views.

Now some may not fully ascribe to a that model, but if it makes any sense at all, I would explore an avenue like that before I dropped a psycho-bomb on someone to "fix" their personality.

But Vollmer would just blithely bomb away.

Amazing.

I am not saying medication is preferable to behavior change. I am saying psychotropics are a tool. Like any other tool, it must be used judiciously. Part of using medication judiciously is knowing what we are tweaking. Often, we tweak personality traits.

This blog has seemed to have too many one sided attacks,

I can completely agree and understand that Shirah Vollmer said these medications are used as tools and should be used judiciously. Small dosages for short periods of time with a form of combination therapy is very beneficial to patients. The drugs themselves aren't a problem but the usage of them. Nearly anything you use in large amounts can cause harm. Do a search on water intoxication, ever think drinking too much water could kill you? Well it can.

It is a lack of education about the drugs that brings the harm to the patients. A lack of education on the patient and the professional.