People who take psychiatric medications long-term are no strangers to stigma, or the threat of it. We perennially face, for example, the question of whether it’s worth risking others’ judgment and the potential negative repercussions of disclosing our conditions — and the fact that we take medication for them.
But you can commit to taking medications long-term and still perpetuate or further the stigma associated with meds. And I don’t just mean that in the sense of keeping your medication regimen secret. Most of us do so in another way altogether that we’re largely unaware of.
“Antipsychotic” is a scary-sounding term to many people, and Jones is not, as he explains to his psychiatrist, psychotic or delusional (though he had imagined, while manic, that a tree in his backyard and a bus on the interstate were both trying to attack him).
TONY DIGIROLAMO
THIS IS THE MADNESS THAT IS DESTROYING THE MINDS AND LIVES OF OUR TROOPS!
With suicides now an alarming 18 per day, and 950 attempts per month, it's disturbing to note that almost 40 percent of the Army's suicide victims in recent years have been on psychiatric drugs, especially SSRI antidepressants like Paxil, Effexor, Zoloft and Prozac.
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