Poor diagnosis based upon effects of prescribed drugs. Dangerous medical behaviour.

1. TRANQILLISER
ADDICTION 2
Stanley Wilkin

2. PILLS-PILLS-PILLS

3. MEDICAL DRUGS 3
• This is a follow up to my recent PowerPoint on tranquilliser addiction,
pointing out the severe physical and psychological affects of
psychotropic medical drugs and the addiction-epidemics repeatedly
caused by GPs.

4. DRUGS-DRUGS-DRUGS
• Take one pill a day,
• Your doctor will say-
• Cure your depression,
• Better than a counselling session.
• But when you’re addicted
• Doubly afflicted
• Raging like a lunatic
• In a chemical grip.

5. DAILY MAIL
• Again, the prescribing of anti-depressives has escalated. Once more
GPs are handing them out like sweets.
• Usually they are prescribed because other treatments are not easily
accessed-especially for the poor! It’s often a case of drugs for the
poor and appropriate treatments for the better off.
• Patients feel they are receiving help, but they are not.

6. CASE STUDY-Ed Gorman

7. TIMES MAGAZINE-1/7/2017
• Ed Gorman worked as a journalist in Afghanistan reporting from
amongst the mujahidin fighting the Soviet army in the mid 1980s. He
was then in his early twenties.
• There he witnessed the traumatic deaths of friends and comrades.

8. • Much later, still badly affected by his combat experiences he visited
his GP who told him he had depression and prescribed Prozac. He
was off work, unable to cope, drifted around London at night drinking
to stop the pain and confusion. He suffered repeated, horrifying
nightmares.

9. • A friend recommended Martin Scurr who was equally convinced that
Gorman was suffering from depression.
• Scurr doubled the Prozac. Later Scurr prescribed lithium as well.
Experiencing sleepless nights now, more confused, he drank even
more and took cocaine.
• He acted out, all his inner suffering coming to the fore-raging, ranting.

10. • Scurr decided he had ‘rapid cycling bipolar.’
• Gorman, unhappy with and fearful of the diagnosis, immediately, on
his own initiative, stopped taking the drugs, bought a boat, getting it
shipshape.
• Gradually, his clarity of thought and feeling returned. (Other methods
of dealing with trauma are possible-drugs are not an answer but
merely embed the problems).

11. • Diagnosed bipolar by another doctor he took the proffered pills again.
Feeling that they did not help, he revisited the 2nd doctor.
• The 2nd doctor changed his diagnosis to Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder but only after Gorman had told him that a woman friend had
suggested that that was what he was suffering from.

12. A Lifetime of Drugs
• If he had continued on the prescribed drugs-what then?
• A lifetime of misery perhaps! More drugs and more drugs.

13. • Is it possible that the doctors did not ask Gorman about his life, did
not bother to engage with the terrible experiences he’d had in
Afghanistan, but simply judged his condition by his symptoms and
plied him with drugs-and more drugs- creating thereby more trauma
and greater, more damaging symptoms?
• There seems little doubt that his increasingly erratic behaviour was
principally the result of the drugs prescribed, as he did not
demonstrate such extreme behaviour before taking psychotropic
drugs.

14. • The doctors’ diagnosis appears to have lacked depth, knowledge and
wisdom
• They appear to have grasped at the usual explanation, found no
doubt in a list ready to hand, then changed it to another usual
diagnosis with the same limited insight and imagination
• Yet again, the doctors’ demonstrated no knowledge of the affects of
their drugs.

15. MORE and MORE!!!!!
• Such a bore-
• More and more-
• Valium, lithium, Prozac
• Personality gone, that’s a fact,
• Sleepless nights
• And the frights.
• That’s such a shame
• In the chemical game.

16. DRUGS/this one/that one/as long as it’s a fat one.