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A Spoonful of Sugar:
Antipsychotic drugs [also known as neuroleptics or major-tranquillisers] are powerful and complex substances. There is a vast amount yet to be understood about the intricate interplay and specific interactions of these drugs and their impact on the neurological system. I feel however, that they can fulfil a valuable role in assisting individuals in their quest for balance, but only if there is a balance of interests between those prescribing and those receiving. Lamentably the means and methods by which these drugs are systematically imposed by clinicians give rise to a profound conflict of interests.
I ascribe neuroleptics with alchemic properties, attributing them with the ability to act on the human Psyche in ways not yet grasped in pharmaceutical research laboratories. My reading is that schizophrenia is a psychic experience that manifests itself as spiritual unrest. The openness and susceptibility to the effects of paranormal stimuli by those undergoing psyche-sensitivity can be overwhelming; a dam burst causing a flash flood of psychic turbulence that fills the plains of the mind.
If neuroleptics are administered sensitively, then rather than suffocating psychic activity through chemical saturation, these compounds can function as a filter and possess the potential to limit the frequency and intensity of paranormal occurrences by reducing the psychic aperture, thereby enabling psychic upsurge to be channelled and assimilated. Used minimally, these drugs can improve rather than impoverish the lives of those on the receiving end.
All too often major-tranquillisers are administered as an overdose that nullifies the neurologic system rendering the recipient brain-dead. The expression less is more springs to mind. Antipsychotic drugs need not be a bitter pill to swallow.
Antipsychotic drugs [also known as neuroleptics or major-tranquillisers] are powerful and complex substances. There is a vast amount yet to be understood about the intricate interplay and specific interactions of these drugs and their impact on the neurological system. I feel however, that they can fulfil a valuable role in assisting individuals in their quest for balance, but only if there is a balance of interests between those prescribing and those receiving. Lamentably the means and methods by which these drugs are systematically imposed by clinicians give rise to a profound conflict of interests.
I ascribe neuroleptics with alchemic properties, attributing them with the ability to act on the human Psyche in ways not yet grasped in pharmaceutical research laboratories. My reading is that schizophrenia is a psychic experience that manifests itself as spiritual unrest. The openness and susceptibility to the effects of paranormal stimuli by those undergoing psyche-sensitivity can be overwhelming; a dam burst causing a flash flood of psychic turbulence that fills the plains of the mind.
If neuroleptics are administered sensitively, then rather than suffocating psychic activity through chemical saturation, these compounds can function as a filter and possess the potential to limit the frequency and intensity of paranormal occurrences by reducing the psychic aperture, thereby enabling psychic upsurge to be channelled and assimilated. Used minimally, these drugs can improve rather than impoverish the lives of those on the receiving end.
All too often major-tranquillisers are administered as an overdose that nullifies the neurologic system rendering the recipient brain-dead. The expression less is more springs to mind. Antipsychotic drugs need not be a bitter pill to swallow.