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"If a madman could become careless for an instant, he would become sane."

Is that the focus of modern anti-psychotic drugs? Not talking about how they work, but their net result.

Date: 2008-02-12 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychoticville.livejournal.com
No drug can best me.

Date: 2008-02-12 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigdee.livejournal.com
I'm not sure what that quote means by 'careless'... is it implying that a 'madman' is only mad because he's making a conscious, careful effort to be that way?

Date: 2008-02-12 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
careless, like not worried/paranoid seemed to be the context

Date: 2008-02-12 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigdee.livejournal.com
'Carefree' and 'careless' are wildly different concepts, despite the best efforts of the English language to confuse the issue:p

Date: 2008-02-12 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
I'm sure that can be explained by mentioning it was said about 100 years ago? :D

Date: 2008-02-12 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigdee.livejournal.com
...Ah.

*dies*

xD

Date: 2008-02-12 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jebusabsolute.livejournal.com
I have a better one. What is 'sane' exactly?

Is a man insane simply because he sees things and hears voices? Because he sees the world in strange and completely unintelligible ways? Or is he the sane one because he sees the world far more clearly than everybody else?

Perspective. It's always perspective coming in and breaking everything. You look at something one way, but the voices say to look at it differently. From another perspective. So you do, and then you don't know what to do anymore, so you just sit there.

I hate perspective.

Date: 2008-02-12 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meganthefeisty.livejournal.com
FYI - Love that song.

Date: 2008-02-20 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deri.livejournal.com
I should have some idea how antipsychotic drugs work since we had to do Mental health center rotations and needed to learn psychiatric nursing. But no, trying to think about it would be stressful ;)

But mostly, I think they mostly try to balance whatever chemical imbalance the body has that contributes to the problem.

However, the thing that's focused on helping them become "careless" is probably therapeutic communication. ;)

But I guess the drugs are needed to catch the disorder off guard enough for the non-pharmaceutical therapy to kick in.

But ... that's kind of me missing the point of the post.

Which is very me, I think. :P

Also, hi Woobah. You're almost out of your teens/out of your teens. Isn't it great :P

Date: 2008-02-20 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jume.livejournal.com
it would be if I didn't have to be all mature and responsible!

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