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When you are suffering from mental illness you will try just about everything possible to find some relief from the symptoms of the disease. Â When the treatments are brought to the patients from a respected university, Columbia University, there is a sense of relief that the program will be a quality program that can offer real hope for healing.
Research has been put on hold at Columbia University due to a federal investigation which determined patients were being injected on a routine basis with substances that are potentially dangerous due to their impurities. Â This took place over four-year period by this nation's leading researchers in psychiatric issues.
Patients with schizophrenia and severe depression are at greatest risk as the impurities would attach to the receptors of the brain that are already impaired due to the psychiatric illness.  This means that the tests and the research as a whole would be skewed by impurities.  All their research would basically be for naught.
But for the patients who are suffering from schizophrenia and severe depression they may be negatively affected and made to endure more severe issues related to their disorder. Â There is such a negative stereotype against mental illness already in this country to have patients suffer unnecessarily is entirely cruel and unusual punishment. Â What makes it even more difficult to comprehend this issue is the fact that those in charge of this study were suppose to be some of the brightest minds in the country.
Taking care of the written word,
dannielyn
Copyright © Dannett Frey, Taking Care of the Written Word, 2010 all rights reserved
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Comments: 4
It is true we try to find any means of making our symptoms go away, even for a moment. That's one reason I used to cut myself, for the rush and for everything to be ok just for a little bit. I'm proud to say that I've been cut free for 3 years (only one relapse, but that's ok, I bounced back!)
Mental illness is difficult to deal with on a daily basis without having those who should be helping you causing you more pain and suffering. I believe it is one thing to go to an experimental treatment or medication with knowledge of that fact it is "experimental" but to be unaware of what someone is doing or subjecting you to because of incompetence is completely another.
I wish you the best of luck in your struggles towards finding the right medication, dosages and freedom from unwanted reactions.