Akatisi: nevroleptika som torturmiddel?

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En vanlig bivirkning av noen typer nevroleptika, men som legen unnlater å informere deg om, er en tilstand som kalles akatisi. Blant nyere typer nevroleptika gjelder dette først og fremst Abilify, Zeldox og Risperdal.

Følgende er Jack Henry Abbots beskrivelse av akatisi, hentet fra hans bok "In the Belly of the Beast":

''These drugs, in this family, do not calm or sedate the nerves. They attack. They attack from so deep inside you, you cannot locate the source of the pain ... The muscles of your jawbone go berserk, so that you bite the inside of your mouth and your jaw locks and the pain throbs. For hours every day this will occur. Your spinal column stiffens so that you can hardly move your head or your neck and sometimes your back bends like a bow and you cannot stand up. The pain grinds into your fiber ... You ache with restlessness, so you feel you have to walk, to pace. And then as soon as you start pacing, the opposite occurs to you; you must sit and rest. Back and forth, up and down you go in pain you cannot locate, in such wretched anxiety you are overwhelmed, because you cannot get relief even in breathing.''

Les gjerne også:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/abilifymaycauseviolence

http://carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2009/05/abilify-and-great-akathisia-cover-up.html