Urgent message to Michele Bachmann

[Jackpine Radical]

Michele--Go home and look in your medicine cabinet.

You will find some pills that look like this:



Take them.

What is clozapine?

Clozapine is an antipsychotic medication. It works by changing the actions of chemicals in the brain.

Clozapine is used to treat severe schizophrenia, or to reduce the risk of suicidal behavior in people with schizophrenia or similar disorders.

Clozapine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

[Scuba]

1. They ain't no pill can cure them crazy eyes.

Marcus, on the other hand, may be salvagable. The prison shrinks will give it a good shot, anyway.

[longship]

2. I like this one. Maybe because of their adverts.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Chlorpromazine is ANCIENT.

And has a boatload of side effects--but now that you mention it…how could we tell?

"Psychiatric side effects including psychotic symptoms, excitability, and reversible catatonic states have been reported. There may also be rare paradoxical psychiatric effects with chlorpromazine therapy."

[longship]

4. Big in the fifties, which is why the adverts are so strange.

Dali-esque even! Read the ad copy.

Not a good treatment, in hind sight.

But in context of Bachmann, I feel such ridicule is entirely appropriate.

Thanks for your response, and you are entirely correct.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. It was in psych units in Vietnam for acute traumatic stress reactions

(then called combat fatigue & not distinguished from PTSD). They injected pretty large doses, let the guys sleep it off, & then sent them back to the field. In the 80's I consulted to a lot of facilities for the chronically mentally ill, working to reduce the use of Thorazine & other drugs in its class (phenothiazines).

[longship]

8. Effectively a chemical lobotomy, if I recall reports.

It was a bad one.

I will self delete, if you object to my post.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. But temporary.

They typically got only one dose, injected IM, and then slept for a day or 2 & woke up without the acute symptoms that had caused them to be evacuated.

I think it was a terrible thing to do to these guys, just symptom suppression, and may have been a major cause of the long-term problems so common in VN vets in later years. Fortunately, I think it was done to a relatively small number of cases.

BTW, I don't know what you thought I might object to in your post.

[longship]

10. Thanks.

One never knows here. And I try to get along.

BTW, Google "Thorazine ads" for more examples of how it was promoted. I have an iPhone so posting pics is hit and miss.

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5. A catatonic state would be a vast improvement for Michele.

[Whisp]

6. I wonder what words of wisdom of Michelle's Grayson will use

for his donation drive.

I can wait!