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Note : The article below is about the hidden hazardous side effects of modern medications meant for the treatment of mental illnesses.



In fact most of the depression-related medications, especially the antipsychotics (such as Risperdal etc) meant for the treatment of such mental illnesses as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc would tend to carry such hidden and potentially hazardous and disastrous side effects (especially the ones manifesting in the forms of various uncontrollable, involuntary and purposeless movements / muscle twitching disorders on the parts of the eyes, face, arms, legs etc) as Extrapyramidal Symptoms , Tardive Dyskinesia , Dystonia, Akathisia and in some serious cases, the neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinsonism etc.



Next, no matter how sophisticated the modern drugs are being invented and developed, especially the second-generation antipsychotics, such a potential side effect remains inherent in such medications that carry the side effects of antagonizing the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters / the key elements of neurons / nerve cells in our nervous system essential for the control of human body motions) . Even though the possibility of manifestation of such neuromuscular symptoms may be very small or even negligible as proven by the established scientific research, other experimental and clinical verifications, it would still depend on such other factors as the different physical conditions of the users of such drugs, other unexpected possible allergy cases etc.





All in all, it would be the amount of medical attention and professional care of the medical personnel dealing with the specific cases of their patients and dispensing the drugs with such dopamine-disturbing side effects that would be primarily essential to ensure the non-occurrence of such disorders or minimize the risk of getting such disastrous and undesired neuromuscular side effects.




For further Information, please refer to the weblinks as follows :



Extrapyramidal Symptoms :


http://www.hubin.org/publicfamilyinfo/treatment/side_effects/side_effects_6_en.html


Tardive Dyskinesia :


http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/tardive_dyskinesia.jsp


My Healing Experience From Such Tardive Dyskinesia-induced
Abnormally Rapid Non-stop Purposeless Involuntary Uncontrollable Eyelid Twitching Sickness Through Acupuncture Therapy (Diagram of 'He Gu' Acupuncture Point & Other Details and References Included) :


http://www.tcmdiscovery.com/bbs/forum_posts.asp?TID=4393



In regard of the topic elaborated above, well, based on my real life observations so far, usually the paper catalogues, pamphlets and brochures for such medications would tend to include the information about their side effects in the forms of fine prints and some very small-size characters in that many users would most of the time tend to ignore them or simply take them as some medical jargons that are otherwise meaningless to them.


But in reality, it's always important to at least get an understanding about the medications that one takes so as to take precautions against any unwanted disastrous side effects from them. Lastly, I hope that the information given above will be useful to the intended readers. Thank you.

In regard of the post made above, as a matter of fact, since I am a non-Malaysian foreigner, naturally I wouldn't know how the Malaysian society's perception in general would be for the ones suffering from mental illnesses. However, most of the antidepressants / antipsychotics / medications for miscellaneous mental illnesses do absolutely carry such potentially disastrous side effects that may ruin the lives of the ones suffering painfully from them especially when such medications are taken haphazardly and arbitrarily by its users. Next, the ones who are unfortunate enough to get such disastrous neurological movements-incapacitating side effects / sicknesses would usually have got no choice but to make do with their misfortunes (such as the recently reported case of the leading actor of 'Harry Porter'



In my case, I was suffering from the 'visually incapacitating' sickness of involuntary uncontrollable purposeless rapid eyelid-twitching/ eye-blinking caused by the side effects of Risperdal - being one of the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia.



As for my sad story, actually I had got a large family with some small kids to support by the time I got this uncontrollably rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking sickness. Later on when I was fired by my boss because of 'unsatisfactory work performances' (I was working in a bank by that time) due largely to this eye-blinking sickness (countless times in a split second and you just wouldn't be able to imagine how serious it was), my other family members just ended up suffering poverty and hardships together with me.



I had a very hard time dealing with that. I tried almost everything and they cost me a fortune...from eye drops, vitamin / mineral pills, neurobions, anti-muscle-spasms pills / injections, chiropractic and then to Botox injections (whose muscle-paralysing effects lasted only temporarily - 3 to 6 months).



Luckily I got this sickness effectively and totally cured in the end through acupuncture therapy and got my normal life back and my family needn't suffer anymore now.



I just hope that by making such posts about my personal experiences with these drugs in this website, they will at least to a certain extent help the other individuals to become aware of the hidden hazards of such drugs so that they themselves could just avoid following in the footsteps of my sorry past.



Besides, my real life experiences and observations simply tell me that there tend to be more and more grown individuals, especially the working adults nowadays who would eventually turn to such depression-related drugs to deal with the stressful work-related pressures that they could hardly cope (and the economy anywhere is still taking a downturn now while the fuel prices continue rising almost everyday, and hey, it's really tough making a decent living nowadays). So I guess it would just be rationally reasonable enough for this group of people to at least take note of such an issue about the undesired side effects of such drugs to take the necessary precautions against them so as to avoid any unwanted disasters that may potentially ruin their lives and perhaps also the ones directly and indirectly dependent upon them altogether.

My Healing Experience From The Chronic Medication-induced Non-stop Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking Sickness - Additional Details



Included below is a weblink giving extra information about the additional details of the treatments-seeking process that I have gone through in getting my Tardive Dyskinesia / Risperdal-induced involuntary uncontrollable purposeless rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking sickness totally cured in the end through cupuncture treatment and I hope that the information given will be useful to the intended readers. Thank you.


http://goldbamboo.com/forum/western-medicine/444-medication-induced-non-stop-eyelid-twitching-my-personal-healing-experience-3.html

Depression-related Medications - My Personal Opinions



In addition, my opinion for such depression-related medications is such that in the case of depression sickness itself which would only cause a person to have a lower self-esteem, lose interest in mixing with other people and to a certain extent make one feel reluctant to go to work sometimes, it certainly will not worth one's while to soley depend on such drugs to relieve such a mental disorder at the expense of getting all the disastrous irreversible physically incapacitating side effects from such drugs eventually.




Hence, my point of view is that extreme cautions should be exercised when one has got no choice but to take such drugs to deal with their mental disorders.

Please be informed that such depression-related medication as Risperdal is actually meant in reality for prescription purposes by the related medical personnel / specialists to be taken by any of its current and prospective users temporarily for a period of 6 months and below (after which it should be replaced with something else).



Such a measure is intended as a safety precaution to safeguard its users from any of its unwanted disastrous physically incapacitating side effects that will almost in all cases manifest onto the ones taking such medication over the long-term. In connection, it's actually at the same time, a strictly-adhered medical practice / protocol for the medical professions of U.S, European and other western countries.

Related Reference :


Risperdal :

http://www.drugs.com/risperdal.html