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PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS -- WHO SHOULD DECIDE? by Rose Rosetree July 3, 2002 Today begins a new era in prescribing psychiatric medicines like Prozac. Starting in New Mexico, on July 1, 2002, it is now legal for psychologists—not only psychiatrists--to write drug prescriptions to treat mental illness.
Actually, the majority of these prescriptions are already being written by non-psychiatrists. Primary-care physicians and other MDs do most of the prescribing. As reported in The Washington Post, this is part of a trend away from insight-oriented talk therapy. Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, both, are pushing drug treatment. Drugs aren’t the only solution to the pain of mental illness, but they can help, at least when the fit between patient and drug is correct.
Now, with a historic shift in authority concerning who has license to these medicines, doctors, therapists and clients will have to rethink their assumptions. Who can help patients most with the difficult choice of prescribing psychiatric medication? New Mexico has just set the precedent. Many other states are introducing similar legislation.
The biggest breakthroughs for prescribing these drugs may come from an alternative source: medical intuitives. These intuitive practitioners read auras for insight into the cause of physical disease. Well known medical intuitives include Mona Lisa Schulz and Carolyn Myss.
Less
known is the special kind of medical intuitive who can make a life-changing
difference for those who take psychiatric medication. Meet the emerging field of
empathic psychopharmacology.
BETTER THAN TRIAL AND ERROR Ask anyone you know who has been treated with drugs for depression, anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder or other psychiatric problems. The drugs are deemed safe and clinically tested, but let’s face it: Prescriptions are made through a remarkably primitive process of trial and error.
Here’s how it typically works. To treat mental illness through medication, the MD (or now, in some cases, the therapist) diagnoses the problem, then narrows down an array of appropriate psychiatric drugs to treat it, taking health side effects into consideration. The first choice is prescribed, then client and doctor wait and see. After a period of weeks or months, if the first drug doesn’t work out, the second choice is prescribed. And so on.
But what’s being sampled here isn’t something innocuous like laundry detergent. Drugs that act on the psyche can cause waking nightmares.
Based on my experience with clients, I believe that the distressing consequences of this inefficient method can be avoided with empathic psychopharmacology.
You’ve guessed it. I’m one of those medical intuitives with this specialty. Here’s how it works:
Working as a consultant, rather than a medical practitioner, the client or practitioner gives me the names of the array of appropriate drugs. I empathically read the aura of the client, directly experiencing what it’s like to be that person, then commenting on areas like mental and emotional functioning, sex, power, spirituality and relationship to reality.
Then it’s research time, where I try on each medication for size, one at a time. I revisit those same areas, mental and emotional functioning, sex, power, and so forth. They shift—believe me, in very definite ways. Sometimes most parts of an aura improve but just one part develops big problems.
If you were going to take Prozac, how would you prefer to find out this kind of consequence--described in a reading or by slogging out the psychic misery in real life, one agonizing day at a time?
The advantage of an empath’s report is that you receive clear and specific information. Remember, this way of being a medical intuitive allows me to describe in detail the subjective consequences of taking different medications—both medication that is already being taken and medication that could be taken.
Empathic psychopharmacology isn’t the objective medical side of medical intuitive work. It’s the subjective side. What will it feel like, taking a particular medicine? Empaths can learn about the aspects that doctors can’t tell you.
Plenty of specialists are able to diagnose physical diseases, but it takes a skilled empath to attune to the inner patterns. With feedback like mine, clients and doctors can make a more informed decision. And human beings can stop being treated as little more than lab rats. Aren’t mental health clients already vulnerable enough? I think they deserve better. With the emerging medical intuitive’s field of empathic psychopharmacology, help is here. THE NITTY GRITTY
Here’s an example of how this specialty works:
In one consulting session, “Joan” and “Howard” brought photos of their son, "Ben," about whom I had no prior information.
First I read a photo taken years ago. Based on my empathic reading, I described a variety of major psychological problems, along with some wonderful gifts of Ben’s soul. (It’s important, I believe, to give a holistic perspective, rather than focusing only on illness.) Because Ben’s parents could relate to the accuracy of the information I related, they trusted me to explore the delicate question of medication.
For this, they showed me a recent photo after Ben's medication was changed. I described the inner difference in detail, including how bogged down and hopeless this boy now felt. Although he might appear calmer on the surface, his mood was secretly desperate. Intellectually, this gifted boy could barely function. Emotionally it felt as though he felt imprisoned and handcuffed. Most frightening, there was a sense of desperation.
Ben’s parents then told me that the medicine made him calm down, so his behavior improved.
Then his mother turned to me. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the expression on her face. Joan told me that Ben never shared his feelings of desperation. But quietly, within a week of starting the new medication, he began to cut himself.
Fortunately
Joan had obtained names of several alternative medications that Ben’s
psychiatrist was willing to try. One of them appeared to be far more
appropriate for use, for the next six weeks at least. Ben would be calm,
but not stifled. Much more of his personality could still come
through. Spiritually and mentally, he’d have his freedom back.
How do medications affect an aura? My theory is that medications can activate or dull the functioning of different chakras and their corresponding energy bodies. It’s as though certain doors are opened wider, other doors closed. For a more precise picture of how this works, it would be interesting to conduct a research study on empathic psychopharmacology. If you, or a health researcher you know has the means to set up such a study, I’d be interested in talking with you. If you are an open-minded medical doctor, osteopath, homeopath, chiropractor, naturopath, herbalist, or other health professional, I’d be glad to give you a sample of the work that I do. This specialty will expand fastest through referrals from people like you.
Meanwhile if you, or someone you know, is taking psychiatric medicine, and my work might help you, consider a confidential consultation. Your medicating doctor, or psychotherapist, must give permission. The cost of an hour-long session ($100) would not be covered by insurance. But what is the cost of trial and error? Doctors and psychotherapists, get ready for the real new era to begin.
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