Post by skribb on Jul 22, 2017 2:43:32 GMT
Jul 22, 2017 0:50:05 GMT Utpe said:
I feel bad for people that suffer from mental illness. I have relatives that take Xanax and Klonopin for anxiety. When they tried to withdraw from it by going cold turkey, they acted as though they were about to crawl out of their skin. It isn't pretty.I believe mental illness should be made more aware. It is something that can go undiagnosed. It's a really dangerous and quiet condition to have.
I do my part by donating a few bucks towards the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Some clarificatoins that I feel are needed:
1. Mental illness is an umbrella term.
2. Klonopin and Xanax are two different kinds of benzos, anti-anxity medication. they are not pills used for "mental illness in general".
3. quitting cold turkey with any psychotropic drug is fucking dumbass move. You will feel great for a few days and then you will be a walking corpse for months or years depending on what meds you were on. Benzos specifically are very tough to quit as they are quite narcotic, and easily abused (much more so than say, any first-line antidepressant or anxiolytic like SSRI, SNRI, atarax.) I imagine antispychotics and "off-label" antidepressants (like opiates) are nearly fatal to quit cold turkey.
4. We are seeing an uprise in mental illness awareness which I think is great, so this will hopefully, and likely, improve further in the coming years.