Antipsychotics and Innercept: Partners in Fornication

The main, or one of, the reasons I despise Innercept is the culture of prescription drug use.

Ask any resident what medication they are taking. They are on a cocktail of different drugs: uppers, downers, in betweeners, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and the like. The common demoninator is the antipsychotic. Risperdal, Seroquel, abilify, invega, geodon, zyprexa. One of those.

Why do people go to Innercept? Why, a variety of reasons. These medications are used mainly for bipolar disorder or psychotic disorders. Most people at Innercept aren't there for these reasons. A lot of people are. But not most people who take these medications at Innercept.

Dr. Ulrich prescribes them for depression or general mood flattening. He read an article one day in People magazine about how sometimes, atypical antipsychotics work for depression. He decided to build his life around that idea by incorporating it strongly into his treatment center.

I know how these drugs work. They lessen the dopamine synaptic response in most places of the brain. In some rare places, there may not be enough. In these places, they increase it just a smidge. They also increase the synaptic response of a neural transmitter responsible for general feelings of malease.

So basically what it boils down to is, in some patients, who have extreme, suicidal, dark, dreary, horrible, homicidal moods, it will lighten it up a bit, because they have severe lack of dopamine. In normal patients, whose depression is caused by general but non-sinister dreary bad moods, it worsens it severely.

When these patients say they are not happy, Dr. Ulrich chalkens it up to the underlying condition and them not knowing there own bodies. On the outside, he sees they are not acting out as much, and thinks it must be do to less dark intrusive thoughts.

Another thing Dr. Ulrich believes is that antipsychotics aid the brain and produce a general state of well-being amongst the troubled. This is evident in the way it improves psychosis. In general, it improves thought clarity, which is an all around bonus, even in those who don't have unclear thoughts to begin with. He also believes prescription medication aids with the ability to control your own thoughts, as in medication. He also believes it improves the ability to communicate properly.

These are things my guides say he believes subconsciously. Consciously, he just says, he notices a general improvement in patients who take these medications, based on their ability to hold a conversation and not have thoughts that are all over the place.

Dr. Ulrich believes that if you come to Innercept, you should be on an antipsychotic. He looks down upon the patients who aren't on antipsychotics.

Antipsychotics worsen a whole host of conditions, including Parkinson's and other dopamine related issues like tourette's syndrome. They worsen ADD too, suicidal thinking when it is less severe, OCD, and Asperger's.

That's why some people might say, Innercept should go out of business.