(07-19-2009 04:41 AM)ntuc Wrote: [ -> ]"Group seeks Botox warning following 16 deaths"
Now, let's consider the following excerpts about Botox medications :
"The consumer group Public Citizen says from 1997 to 2006 16 people died from Botox injections, four of them under the age of 18. "
"The report also found that 658 patients suffered adverse effects from Botox and 87 of them had to be hospitalized.
Levine says cosmetic Botox is relatively safe if you have a good doctor, but says as the use of Botulin toxin increases so does the risk for complications.
The FDA would not comment on the report. "
quoted from the website :
http://wcbstv.com/seenon/botox.fda.injec...37330.html
(Please take note that the weblink mentioned above may be totally banned and closed down anytime subsequently by the related authorities for the purpose of complete cover-ups of any commercially-unfavourable public information and coverage)
For your further information, Botox Injections are actually medical derivatives from Clostridium botulinum bacterium (which causes botulism) that have been intentionally abused before for the purpose of chemical warfare owing to its intense toxicity.
http://www.answers.com/topic/botox
Other Related Information :
http://www.resource4defectivedrugs.com/t...botox.html
The goals of money-makings and profit-maximisings mean that human lives are actually worthless and fully expendable for those "practical" business / commercial purposes ?
Antipsychotics / Neuroleptics For Mental Disorders - Comments
In terms of
antipsychotics /
neuroleptics meant for the treatments of mental disorders , clinical evidences actually indicate that those troubled with mental disorders, especially the serious ones, shouldn't just rely solely upon the medications as the one and only means of solution to their mental problems.
To put it bluntly, such medications, they are no different from sleeping pills whereby
their calming effects just 'come and go' after the lapse of their effective period whilst
their potential disastrous side effects can be permanent upon manifestations. In medical sense, such mental disorders, especially the serious ones is mainly caused by the
malfunctionings of the mood regulator neurotransmitter, especially
Serotonin in the
brain. Next, though the related medications can to a certain extent bring such a severe mental disorder under control by
'artificially' regulating, blocking and controlling the re-uptake of it in the brain of the persons suffering from it, medications alone however, by no means would be able to deal conclusively with the problems due to the fact that
the root causes of such a disorder is actually resulting largely from the environmental, circumstantial and other interpersonal factors (or the changes of them) that are deemed to be emotionally and adversely unacceptable to the ones suffering from it to a very great extent. Such negative changes in turn actually account for the
negative behavioural changes in them as described
In short, it remains the truth that most of the antipsychotics / neuroleptics meant for especially the treatment of chronic mental illnesses would tend to work in such a way that they would need to
change / alter the chemical balances in the brain of those taking such medications in the process of bringing such disorders under control. In the process of doing so, such a mechanism would unavoidably and eventually
antagonize the neurotransmitters of the
nervous system, especially the
serotonin and
dopamine (which is necessary for
various neuromuscular functions), and hence disturb and interfere with the normal functionings of the nerves of the human body.
Next, though it may take years for such undesirable side effects / scenario to manifest onto the ones taking such medications, I am just in the opinion that in the case of the medications having potentially such unwanted side effects, it would naturally be the duty of the medical personnel / specialists-in-charge to take all the precautionary measures to safeguard the well-being of the patients for the sake of their healthcare and welfare.
The real-life examples that I have come across so far is such that for the ones relying merely upon medications and nothing else to deal with their mental disorders, they would tend to develop both
emotional and psychological dependences upon such medictions over the long-term whilst getting their mental conditions deteriorated from time to time, eg, from
neurosis to
psychosis and then just acquire all those almost
irreversibly disastrous undesirable side effects like
Extrapyramidal Symptoms,
Tardive Dyskinesia,
Dystonia,
Akathisia,
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome,
Parkinsonism disorders etc from such medications in the end.
In such a connection,
psychotherapy, counselling, emotional and other communication / interactive supports would be needed to complement the use of the related medications to achieve greater curative effects for such patients troubled by chronic mental disorder.
As such, medications is one thing, but the mental / cognitive abilities of the patients themselves to eventually change their views and perceptions about their environments / surroundings, circumstances and people they are facing in a more positve way, particularly developed through the help of such counselling supports from the others in order for them to really get better and gradually develop
positive behavioural / personality changes, is simply another thing that cannot achieved solely with the help of medications alone.
In a nutshell,
medications alone by no means can be a substitute for the positive interpersonal experiences that such patients would eventually need for genuine improvement and recovery of their sanity and the use of them should at the same time be complemented by other psychotherapy efforts to achieve the purpose of
holistic healing.
Lastly, I hope that the information given above will turn out to be useful to its intended readers. Thank you.
Related Reference :
Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS) :
http://schizophrenia.emedtv.com/extrapyram...l-symptoms.html
Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) :
http://schizophrenia.emedtv.com/tardive-dy...dyskinesia.html
Antipsychotics :
http://schizophrenia.emedtv.com/antipsycho...psychotics.html
General Cognitive Behavioural Process
Well, a psychologist has actually explained to me before that any human actions / behaviours are generally dictated by a cognitive mental process summarized such as follows, and it would apply as well to the ones suffering from any mental disorders, but nevertheless are still mentally and cognitively well-aware of their surroundings and other objects / factors around them. Next, I find that such reasonings really make great senses, and hence, I just feel like to share it with the intended readers :-
Perceptions (anything we see, we hear, we know, we taste, we touch etc from our surroundings / other people) =>
Feelings (the way we feel about our surroundings and other people based on anything we see, hear, know, taste, touch etc) =>
Thoughts (the types of views and opinions that we form in our minds based on the types of feelings we have for anything we perceive) =>
Actions (how we choose to react in response to those surroundings / other people based on the feelings and thoughts that arise in our minds).
In such a regard, the underlying problem faced by the ones with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and other mental disorders are such that they would tend to treat their perceptions (as mentioned above) in a very much negatively different way, and that in turn results in them forming all those negative feelings, thoughts and then all those negative actions of which others get to label them as
negative behavioural / personality changes.
For example, a person suffering from schizophrenia may, after 'observing' his surroundings, (
Perceptions), just in turn, for certain reasons like past traumatic experiences, anxiety disorders, panic attacks etc, would tend to spontaneously and directly feel very much uncomfortable, anxious, scared and fearful for what they get to see, hear, know, touch etc (
Feelings) , and in extreme cases, maybe they may get to hear 'voices' and feel very much threatened by their surroundings then have such false and unreal imaginations of which they subconsciously choose to firmly believe in that someone out there is 'really' / 'actually' threatening his life (
Thoughts or in this case, purely false hallucinations), and finally just try his very best based on his own misguided judgements, to subconsciously become violently defensive and hostile against the others in order to save himself, from being killed etc (
Actions).
Similarly, such an explanation to a certain extent would apply as well to the ones having such disorders like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Claustrophobia (a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space) etc whereby a given surrounding, which may appear normal to other people, would nevertheless and otherwise appear to be abnormally unacceptable to them possibly because of past traumatic experiences, anxiety disorders, panic attacks and other reasons. Next, the feelings and thoughts that such people would have based what they perceive for the given surrounding in turn would be largely uncontrollable, if not subconciously involuntary, while their subsequent responses/ reactions / actions based on their such negative feelings and thoughts, would in turn be very much the so-called reflex reactions which are substantially and in most cases, totally beyond their self-control.
In this regard, it would be very much helpful for the ones dealing with such persons to understand their basic underlying problems and difficulties and in turn treat them considerately and thoughtfully with care, respects and most importantly, compassion, whilst at the same time, also try to be friendly and amicable to them in such as a way that rather than feeling uncomfortable with a given surrounding and becoming agitated, these persons would on the other hand, feel more mind-easing, emotionally calm, placated, pacified, soothed, comfortable and relaxing with that given 'uneasy' / 'uncomfortable' / 'threatening' surroundings that they perceive. Subsequently, all these efforts will definitely be tremendously conducive to the improvements of the conditions of their disorders and possibly the final recovery in the end.
With all due respect, the
antipsychotics and other
neuroleptics just serve to
temporarily block such negative nerve impulses about their such
negative perceptions from getting sent to the
brain of the ones having such disorders so as to
artificially block all those negative feelings, thoughts, and then the actions. Hence, they are simply
not a conclusive and permanent solution to such disorders.
Well, in such a context, the most direct way of treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the most effective, and maybe largely hypothetical way would be for such persons to totally change their perceptions about their surroundings, environments, the other people in a positive way and to start having positive and realistic thoughts and at the same time, to get rid of those hallucinations, fanciful ideas, little by little gradually and slowly out of their mind and replace them with anything normal, practical, realistic and positive. Theorectically,
positive perceptions =>
positive feelings =>
positive thoughts =>
positive actions.
In this sense, a great deal of
interpersonal, interactive, communications and emotional supports from the ones genuinely willing to help them would be very much essential in getting this achieved, essentially in changing the ways they perceive, feel and think for anything they deal with so as to enable them to come to a decision on their own to have positive actions.
Nonetheless, above all these external constructive helps from the others, all the
self-initiatives,
self-controls and
self-disciplines that are meant to be exercised, essentially on the parts of the ones suffering from such a disorder, particularly to 'mentally-train' themselves to think
realistically,
positively,
optimistically and to cast out / expel all those weird thoughts, hallucinations, fanciful imaginations and preposterous urges and whims little by little out of their minds and get them replaced with the positive, practical and realistic ones, so as to slowly develop
positive behavioural changes in themselves, would in turn actually be the decisive factor in determining whether their conditions will pracitcally improve or not, slowly and gradually in the end.
Hallucinations / Delusions, symptoms of Schizophrenia - Brief Analysis
In fact, for the symptoms of hallucinations / delusions etc that might come along with certain mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc, well, I was actually informed by the psychiatrists and psychologists that all these
hallucinations / delusions etc, 'they' are actually 'fed' on such negative feelings as fear, anger, frustrations, suspicions and all other fanciful, illogical, irrational, erratic and unreasonable senses of those suffering from such hallucinational disorders.
This is to say, the more and more, and the frequent and frequent that such people having hallucinations / delusions are to entertain / indulge / revel / be engrossed in such negative feelings of fear, anger, frustrations, suspicions and all other fanciful, illogical, irrational, erratic and unreasonable senses, and the stronger and stronger of those senses that such people suffering from schizophrenia / bipolar disorder tend to have, then the worse and worse their delusional and hallucinational conditions would tend to become / deteriorate over time.
Similarly, the same concepts and principles would fairly apply to certain mental diorders like depressions, anxieties, phobias, panic attacks etc whereby the more and more depressed, anxious, distressed, worried, dejected, panicked, desperate, emotionally impulsive, fearful (of certain things, surroundings, situations, people etc) a particular mentally-illed person can get, the more and more serious that such mental disorders would potentially deteriorate over the long-term.
So, one would really need to learn how to control oneself so as not to let their such negative senses running out of control.
In short, in dealing with such problems, just
don't 'give' all these hallucinations / delusions etc what 'they' want (in these cases, that will be those negative unrealistic / irrational / wildly fanciful senses etc as described above) so as
to prevent the symptoms from deteriorating from bad to worse. Whilst the same approaches would be effective for the other mental disorders too, such as the ones mentioned above.
So, the ways of overcoming these hallucinations / delusions, other mental disorders etc, on one point, would be to use certain related medications to temporarily bring such a condition under control (
temporarily in the sense that medications have their
limitations especially in terms of their
effective curative period, whilst at the same time, such a
'temporary healing' is actually achieved through the
artificial suppressing of negative nerve impulses to block all such negative feelings, thoughts - in this case, mainly the hallucinations, and finally the actions which arise from negative perceptions).
On the other hand, one's
self-initiatives and
self-efforts to exercise
self-controls,
self-disciplines,
self-rationalisings,
self-reasonings etc to overcome all those delusions and hallucinations would be of
utmost essential in helping oneself to cope with such mental disorders.
This is to say, in order to overcome all those delusions, hallucinations etc, one would need to exercise all those self-initiatives, self-controls etc to exercise self-reasonings and self-rationalisings, so as to enable oneself to gradually and slowly
think positively, rationally, realistically, reasonably, practically and sensibly, as well as, at the same time, to
replace all those delusional, hallucinational thoughts, wild imaginations etc, bit by bit, with rational and reasonable thoughts and senses, just like the what the normal healthy people do.
In the meantime, one would reasonably require certain
psychotherapy,
emotional,
interactive,
interpersonal and
communication supports in getting such goals achieved. In this regard, such other activities as doing sports, playing indoor games (such as chess, card games etc), engagings in one's favourite hobbies, watching comedies, reading something interesting, positively inspiring etc, would all be useful in both distracting one's mind from having delusions, hallucinations etc, whilst at the same time,
subconsciously instilling into their minds all those optimistic and positive thoughts that one would need to deal with such disorders.
In short, having hallucinations, which to a certain extent might be associated with certain mental disorders, as well as the mental disorders themselves, well, they may be painful experiences to most people, however, it would take just the
right treatments and
other related remedial factors to achieve
holistic healings for such disorders of hallucinations / delusions, other mental disorders etc.
Mental Disorders - Further Explanations
Actually, in terms of mental disorders which may come along with hallucinations / delusions, all those external aides of
medications,
psychotherapies,
interactive,
interpersonal and
emotional supports etc, they are all meant for the same ultimate goal of
bringing such disorders under control and there is simply no doubt for that.
Next, since it's the ones having mental disorders are the ones who are actually suffering from such illnesses, which arise from
negative perceptions,
negative feelings and
negative thoughts formed in
their own brains /
minds (
instead of other people's brains / minds), it would eventually necessitate they themselves to put in their very own
self- efforts,
having received both external medicational and interpersonal helps from the others, to
exercise self-controls and
self-disciplines on their own to
direct their own brains for self-reasonings, self-introspections and self-rationalisings.
This is to say, for the self-cognition / thinkings psychological part of the ones having mental diorders to form those positive feelings and positive thoughts in their own minds on their very own, and then to naturally develop postitive behavioural / personality changes,
such a cognitive thought / thinking process actually can hardly be 'dictated' by anyone else other than they themselves. In such connection, as to the cognitive / thinking abilities / processes of different individuals, one of the simplest examples will be the process of learning a knowledge or something else whereby a person can get the best text materials, teachers, lecturers, tutors etc to assist one in his / her learnings, however, it would still ultimately depend on the very cognitive ability / process pertaining to that particular person which is then the key decisive factor in determining whether the knowledge is successfully acquired in the end or not.
In short, those
self-efforts (related to
self-cognitions), in the very end, will eventually be very much essential, or rather the
decisive factor in determining whether the persons having mental disorders will achieve improvements / recoveries for their mental conditions or not.
Lastly,
such goals, instead of being just sheer fantasies, they
are actually the very realistic ones which in fact have been achieved by lots of people, especially the ones with tremendous patience.