Covid-19 patients who took Prozac (Fluvoxamine) for ten days were found to be 66% less likely to be hospitalized than those who didn’t, according to a large clinical trial. Prozac is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that is often subscribed to treat obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. Scientists are …
Finding a psychiatrist who can prescribe medicine is difficult in an emergency. Finding a psychiatrist who takes insurance on short notice is next to impossible. Paying out-of-pocket for individual therapy can cost thousands of dollars a year, and it will take you no less than a month before you see the psychiatrist. . . if …
During my last and very last trip to the psychiatric ward, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and an extreme case of OCD. After taking the antipsychotic Zyprexa, mostly on but sometimes off, for twenty years with poor results, I am now taking Abilify. Considered an atypical antipsychotic, my life has made a dramatic upturn since …
Part Two You Can’t Come Home Again Dream On I didn’t get fired For being a liar But I quit To be a son of a bitch Believing greener pastures lay ahead But I was simply out of my head So drunk day and night I’m surprised I didn’t lose my sight. He of Little …
It’s been one year to the day since I was released from the mental hospital for the absolute last time. On September 10th, 2020, Armageddon on my brain had not subsided but had relented as I was finally told that I was schizophrenic and not, for lack of better words, simply bipolar. There is so …
Part One The First Breakdown Changing Faces I started to see similarities In everyone’s irregularities The faces of friends’ past Hit hard like I was on a fast Some were South American Others were next of kin Everything reminded me Of my upcoming insanity It’s scary as heck When you’re up to your neck In …
hidden-valley-road.com Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family: Kolker, Robert: 9780525562641: Amazon.com: Books This is not inside information, but for some who don’t read Oprah’s choice every month, Hidden Valley Road, is a phenomenal nonfiction book about an American Family where six of the twelve children were diagnosed with schizophrenia by the 1970’s …
With talk of another mask mandate and school closings, I thought I would point out the obvious. The recent surge in teenage suicide and depression, which is a far larger public health threat than COVID-19. After all the median age of people dying from COVID is 80 years old (U.S. life expectancy is 78.8). In …
I can’t figure out how I slipped through the cracks and wasn’t officially diagnosed as schizophrenic until 2020 at the age of forty-eight. Afterall, as a nine year old, I was taking a drug called Melaril, a first generation antipsychotic drug that was withdrawn worldwide in 2005 because it caused severe cardiac arrhythmias, but is …
One of the mostest harderest things (bad grammar intended) for me as a mentally ill writer is the self-inflicted wound of isolation I have hoisted upon my shoulders. Without having worked in an office setting in over ten years, my computer skills are negligent. Just getting to this point of having a website of crazy-stir.com …
