Misconceptions about Neuroleptics Debunked!: Psych Research Literature vs. Modern Bio-Psychiatry

[Petros Agapetos]

Disability on the Basis of Mental Disorder

Psychiatry does not engage in medically diagnosing people, because diagnosis means finding the root cause of the disorder. Psychiatrists merely label people with diagnostic labels according to their DSM "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders". Every single mental disorder or illness in the manual is invented not discovered. Moreover, there are no blood tests, no cerebrospinal fluid tests, no brain scans of any kind to independently confirm or objectively verify a psychiatric diagnosis. Thus, the claim that I have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder is not testable. Mental illnesses are not demonstrable brain diseases. Mental illness is psychiatrically "diagnosed" only on the basis of what the patient says, what is said about the patient, and the patient's behaviour, none of which can be a disease. That is not what diseases are.

Neuroleptic-induced deficit disorder can be described as negative symptoms of schizophrenia induced by the neuroleptic. Neuroleptics induce a neurological syndrome by seizing the central nervous system and dampening down dopaminergic activity, slowing up all thinking processes, impairing one's reward related psychic functions, euphoria, pleasure, etc. The “side effects” of antipsychotics that one can suffer from are a lack of motivation, indifference, flattening of affect, and blunting of emotions, etc. Neuroleptics render me indifferent, unmotivated, depressed, apathetic, docile, and inflict mental suffering (torture). Neuroleptics dampen down thought processes. It is a demonstrable fact, verifiably accurate, that neuroleptics cause learning disabilities and deficits, such as impairment of short-term memory, attention, the ability to concentrate, and to learn. Neuroleptics impair my learning abilities. Neuroleptic use has induced Neuroleptic-Induced Deficit Disorder, causing “negative symptoms (of schizophrenia)”, such as disorder of diminished motivation, blunting of affect, apathy and indifference, emotional disengagement from the world, lack of drive, initiative and preoccupation, impairing one’s ability to think, concentrate, and learn.


On the Chemical Imbalance Hoax
Neuroleptics, so called "anti-psychotics," do not exert their therapeutic (pharmacological target) effects on psychosis (positive symptoms of schizophrenia) by rectifying a brain abnormality, such as a chemical imbalance, nor do they target any physiological process that produces the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, but rather neuroleptics suppress symptoms of schizophrenia, by a profound slowing up and dampening down of mental processes by putting a brake on dopaminergic neurotransmission - they arrest natural brain function. Neuroleptics are major tranquilizers, neurological inhibitors, suppressants and depressants of the central nervous system.

Neuroleptic means "nerve seizing". Neuroleptics work to treat psychosis by disrupting normal brain function in the reward (mesolimbic) pathway, and in the mesocortical pathway - connecting to the frontal lobe (the part of our brain that makes us human). Neuroleptics do not exert their psychosis-treating effects by targeting an underlying disease process or brain abnormality, such as a chemical imbalance, i.e. dysregulation of the dopaminergic neurotransmitter system = overactivity of dopamine neurotransmission in the 4 dopaminergic pathways: mesolimbic (reward), mesocortical (humanity), nigrostriatal (target of antiparkinsonian agents), and tuberoinfundibular (hormones, i.e. prolactin). Neuroleptics seize the central nervous system, dampen down dopaminergic brain activity, suppress function by occupying 70% - 90% dopamine D2 receptors. Neuroleptics are first and foremost psychoactive drugs. Their psychoactive effects (their global alterations of physical and mental states) treat symptoms of schizophrenia. Neuroleptics are not antidotes for psychosis.

Neuroleptics are not disease-specific treatments in schizophrenia, but rather mind-altering agents producing such mental and physical alterations that suppress symptoms (superimpose upon the symptoms that they are treating). Neuroleptic effects (target and side effects) may be useful in treating (dampening down) psychotic states, but that depends on the context. They do not exert their therapeutic effects by reversing or rectifying a disease process, nor are they curative agents: they cannot cure psychosis, nor prevent, nor decrease the probability that one will become ill or lessen the severity of the illness (quite to the contrary!). The effects of a neuroleptic can be useful, but that depends on the context, and it is not the same as fixing an underlying brain abnormality (i.e. bio-chemical imbalance). The chemical imbalance theory of schizophrenia carries no credibility in the modern psychiatric research establishment. The researchers do not find there to be a lesion (pathology) in the dopamine neurotransmitter system that is the primary cause of schizophrenia. The chemical imbalance theory of schizophrenia is a hoax!