Research published in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice finds that a “shared discussion of beliefs about medication between patient and care provider allows wider exploration of personal meanings that can help establish therapeutic relationships and integrate psychological therapy with psychopharmacology.” The researchers found three main themes: control by and of medication, dependence on medication and the prescriber, and stigma from medication use.
Seeman, M., Seeman, N., The Meaning of Antipsychotic Medication to Patients with Schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Practice. 2012 Sep;18(5):338-48.
“stigma from medication use”.
“care provider”
I should have realized that the vicious quack brain rapists who forced these life shortening drugs into my brain were just harmless “care providers”. Then I could live ignorant bliss like millions of others.
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