Schizophrenia-related medication-induced Non-stop Eyelid-twitching - My Experience

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Schizophrenia-related medication-induced Non-stop Eyelid-twitching - My Experience


Note : The following article is only meant as a reference material to the intended recipients and advices should be sought from the medical experts to establish the authenticity of its contents. For your information, I get this non-stop eyelid twitching sickness which is diagnosed as one of the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia (neuroleptic medication-induced repetitive, involuntary, purposeless facial muscle movements), while living abroad indirectly from depression (Schizophrenia) through subsequent allergy and overdosage of the related-medications ( Risperdal) and I hope that the information given below will be useful to the intended readers.


Non-stop Eyelid twitching, which is lately referred to as Blepharospasm or Myokymia is actually a symptom of involuntary and uncontrollable movements in the muscles around a person's eyes which in turn make them appear like 'blinking non-stop' to other people.


Generally, the movements of one's muscle is controlled by the nerves around them that in turn receive signals from the brains which ultimately dictate the variety of 'ways' in which such desired movements are to be conducted based on a person's will.


The causes of such eyelid-twitching symptom in most common cases may just due to short-term stress, over-tiredness, over-straining of one's eyes, occasional anxiety, temporary panic fits and nervousness which in turn can be easily relieved and recover naturally by a good rest, more relaxation and trying to calm oneself down to stop getting anxious, panic and worried and stressful over certain things. In this regard, such phenomena tend to be quite common among certain students and other professionals.


However, in the cases of a persistent uncontrollable twitchings of the eyelids which only get aggravated rather than improved over time and last for months and even years, it may just probably imply that the nerves around the eyes organ are simply not 'properly functionable' enough to bring about the desired movements of the muscles based on the mental instructions from the brains of a person.


Except for any brain and other eye muscle damages/eye muscle disorders caused by permanent lack of certain nutrients and minerals etc or other irritations to that organ like dry eyes, sore eyes, bacteria infections etc, such a chronic eyelid-twitching sickness may likely be caused by certain disturbances and disorders that affect or weaken the functionality of the nerves around the eyes to bring about the desired movements of this organ based on the person's will.


In this regard, the possible reasons of such chronic eyelid-twitching sickness may probably due to the causes as mentioned above which is experienced by a person over a considerably long period of time rather than just temporarily. Apart from that, other likely causes maybe be certain traumas, especially the emotional ones, allergy to or overdosage of certain medications that carry such side effects as muscle spasms, particularly photophobia in the case of eyelid-twitching symptom.


In fact, I myself have also been suffering from such a sickness due to allergy and overdosage to such medications like Risperdal and other similar drugs (of which I have stopped taking and replaced with something else so as not to further worsen the eyelid-twitching problem and to prevent a relapse of that sickness after I get healed). As such, I would very much like to share my own genuine personal experience with you over the course of my treatment of such a sickness and I hope that it will somehow be helpful to a certain extent especially to those who have been having the similar experience as mine and I would to emphasize that it again only is meant as a reference material to anyone reading it.


For your information, I have been suffering from this sickness in the past few years whereby my eyelids also tend to twitch both continuously and uncontrollably without me being able to do anything to control the twitchings at all. As a result, my eyes would seem like blinking all the while to anyone who looks at me and I totally could not drive, look directly and persistently at the pc or tv screens and most of the times, I simply can’t read any books or newspaper properly.


And I have sought lots of medical treatments and advices as well as apply various kinds of eye drops, taking various types of vitamins, mineral pills as well as many types of anti-muscle spasm medications from lots of eye specialists, neurosurgeons and psychiatrists (who explain the medical theories mentioned above to me), ENT specialists and other general practitioners, and even have the MRI examinations taken to get my eyes cured , but these efforts turn out to be in vain as they fail to yield any positive results and my eyes still keep on blinking non-stop.


Luckily, just about a year after I suffer from such a sickness, I come across an acupuncture expert who studied and observed closely about my problems and then administer a therapy needle on the part of the flesh at the back of the palm which is about 1.5 cm (applicable to the average grown adults only) vertically from the point of intersection between my thumb and my forefinger of my right hand (as per illustration added below) to strengthen the weakened and sensitive nerves around my eyes. After that, he just ask me to press (using just mild force) onto the surface of that acupuncture point using such objects like toothpick /normal writing pen (which is out of ink of course) or anything with a blunt-pointed end for at least 2 hours a day and then consistently for about 2 months. Having done that persistently based on his order, my non-stop eyelid twitching that makes my eyes blinking all the while just totally recover in time and I can drive, work with the pc screens, watch tv, movies and read as well as work like any other normal persons.


For your further information, I have also come across quite a couple of people in my real life annoyed by such a non-stop eyelid twitching problem of different causes and degrees of severity, and accordingly, I just recommend the method as mentioned above to them and within weeks, they just experience significant improvements to their conditions after applying this therapy, and after a few months , they just recover totally from this sickness. . And I hope that by contributing this piece of article to you, it will somehow help you to in at least getting a clue about this sickness.


Lastly, I sincerely wish that the ones troubled by such an annoying non-stop eyelid twitching sickness can recover finally from their illness. Thank you.

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Note : The following is only intended as a follow-up of my previous article and the information given are meant to serve only as reference materials to the intended readers. Relevant medical advices should be sought to establish the authenticity of the contents below.


About my personal experience of getting totally healed from this eyelid-twitching sickness, well, in fact I was initially instructed by a psychiatrist to take Rispderdal in the first place for the treatment of my Schizophrenia sickness. And having taken this medication for about one year based on his prescribed dosage, my eyelids started to twitch, quite unnoticeable by me at first, but when more and more people began to ask me the reason why I kept on blinking my eyes to anyone who looked at me, I just started to sense this particular eyelid-twitching symptom but without being aware of its underlying causes at all.


It was only when my eyelids began to twitch non-stop and violently day after day without me being able to do anything to deal with it, I then just referred this problem to my psychiatrist who subsequently told me that he couldn't do anything about it and referred me instead to a the eye doctors, ENT Specialists and neurosurgeons. Having examined my conditions, medical history as well as my diet and the existing medications that I was taking by that time, they all unanimously arrived at the diagnosis that the eyelid-twitching was definitely and undoubtedly caused by the prolonged intake of Risperdal which actually carried such side effects of muscle spasms especially the ones inflicted on the upper part of the face of a person who took it for a certain period of time.


In fact, by that time, I just accordingly followed the advice of the new psychiatrist and replaced this Risperdal with an alternative medication called Seroquel,which was actually a second-generation drug that didn't cause that much muscle-spasms side effects. However, even after I had quit taking Risperdal for more than 6 months, the violent non-stop twtichings still persisted. And actually before I decided to seek acupuncture treatment (as recommended by my friends) to deal with this sickness, I did accept the suggestion of a neurosurgeon to take Botox injections to deal with the problematic eyelid-muscles that caused all the twitchings. Next, the Botox injections, in fact did give positive results in the first place whereby my eyelids just didn't twitch that violently after being given the injections.


However, upon knowing from the neurosurgeon that Botox injections was actually not an effective cure for this eyelid-twitching sickness, for the very reason that the medications would just serve to sort of 'half-paralyse' the eyelid muscles without being able to do anything curative to the problematic nerves around the twitching eye muscles, coupled with the fact that such Botox medications would tend to get immunized by the human body, it thus would just mean that larger and larger dosages of such medications would be required for each subsequent injection therapy (which would last for 3-6 months each) in order to achieve the similar healing effect of the previous ones.


Besides, it was also actually a very expensive therapy as it would cost me about 5,000 dollars for each injection therapy session and hence, to keep on spending such huge sums of money to stop my eyelids from twitching would just be very expensive and unreasonable.


Whilst the neurosurgeon mentioned to me also about a surgical treatment to effectively cure the eyelid-twitching, the operation, apart from being very costly, was also actually a very risky one as its failure may very well bring blindness to the persons being operated. At the same time, even such surgery were to turn out to be successful, it would also be unable to achieve 100% complete healing to anyone being operated in the sense that the eyelid-twitching conditions can never 'look perfectly normal' like the ones who were totally not troubled by such a sickness at all. So, I just eventually gave up the idea of getting a surgery to treat the sickness.


Being terribly desperate, I just came to the decision of referring my eyelid-twitching sickness to an acupuncture expert which was recommended to me previously by my friends. Frankly speaking, at first I didn't actually have any faith or confidence in such a needle-based therapy and I hardly believed that these needles alone would be able to get my eyelid-twiching healed. Next, having received such therapy, my eyelids still twitched violently like before without any improvements.


However, after taking a good sleep at night that particular day after the acupuncture treatment, I just woke up the next day and found that there were lots of dried mucus that stuck around my eyes, and surprisingly, after rubbing away these dried mucus to open up my eyes, my eyelids just don't twitch so violently anymore and immediately I was able to do the simple readings and watch tv as well as work with the PC screen without getting any discomfort. And based on the acupuncturist who dealt with my sickness, that acupuncture point as mentioned in that main article was actually directly interconnected with the bundle of nerves around the eye muslces, and so by administering treatment to it, that will sort of applying some kind of 'reflexology stimulus' to the nerves around the eye-muscles to improve the blood circulation around that area as well as to strengthen these specific nerves and to enable any unwanted metabolism wastes, blockages and toxins accumulated around that eye areas to be effectively purged out of a person's body (through dried mucus around one's eyes) And having applied that therapy on my own as instructed by the acupuncturist, my eyelid-twitching condition just got better and better day after day and within 2 months, the sickness was totally gone whereby my I just appeared to be perfectly normal to anyone who talked to, looked and stared at me until now.


Though the therapy mechanism mentioned above could hardly be scientifially verified and proven by the modern medical science, however, as far as a patient suffering from this sickness is concerned, it is more the very effective cure for such sickness itself rather than all other medical and scientific reasonings that would eventually matter the most to the patients. As such, this is the main reason why I would seek acupuncture treatment as a last resort to deal with my eyelid-twitching sickness.


And being subsequently encouraged by the dozens of successful cases of those other people in my real life who had been troubled persistently by such non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness and who then eventually got effectively and totally healed in time through the acupuncture technique that I recommended to them, I was thus greatly inspired to post such articles about my very own genuine personal experience of getting totally cured from such a sickness to at least give a clue and some guidelines to the ones who are still being troubled by it so that the similar wonderful thing will happen to them too.

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My Subsequent Experience With seroquel After Quiting Risperdal



Note: Advices from medical expert should be sought to establish the authenticity of the following information which is meant for the intended readers.


When I switched from Risperdal to Seroquel for the treatment of my Schizophrenia sickness, apart from enabling me to avoid a relapse of the eyelid-twitching sickness after I get totally cured from it through acupuncture treatment, it helped me also to a very great extent to enable me to have a very good sleep at night. But when I was at work and hence had to refrain myself from taking such medicine so as not to let its drowsiness effect affect my work performance, I just became quite irritable without any known causes or reasons. And over time, I simply needed such medication to help me sleep at night, and to stop becoming irritable or get angry/frustrated very easily without any reasons.


About one and a half years ago, I was advised by a pyschiatrist that it was possible for a person to quit Seroquel and then lead a very normal life just like other persons. However, it would take a very strong determination and a great deal of emotional as well as counselling /communication support from the other people to achieve that goal.


For the sleeping issue, one would need to cut down the dosage of the Seroquel drug progressively over a reasonable stretch of time, such as starting from 200mg to 100 mg , and then 2-3 weeks later from 100 mg to 50 mg and finally to physically break up the tablet into separate parts to achieve a much lower dosage to finally reduce and then totally quit the intake of such medication for the particular person. However, since a progressively lower intake of Seroquel dosage would definitely cause difficulties of sleeping to the particular persons, he/she would then need to put in certain extra efforts on their own, such as doing some exercise a few hours ago to get oneself tired before sleeping, reading some really boring novels /watching some really boring TV programmes or even listening to some sentimental/ sleep-inducing musics before getting to sleep.


Next, since Seroquel is meant for the treatment of such sicknesses as bipolar disorders, Schizophrenia symptoms etc, it certainly has its own medicational values as an anti-psychotic drug. Hence, to effectively reduce and eventually quit the intake of Seroquel in order to enable a person to stop becoming irritable due to its addiction whilst at the same time to prevent the mental sicknesses mentioned above from getting worse due to decreased intake or eventual quiting of such medication, one would need to reach out more to and have more communications and interactions with other people around them, especially the close kin to seek more emotional support, increased fellowships and in some cases, get involved in more social/ religious gatherings /indoor/outdoor activities, engage oneself in a hobby/ meaningful activities for each one has deep interest in such as drawing, doing other sports etc, and obtain more conselling advices from the trained counsellors in order to improve the sanity /state of mental condition of the patient.


As far as my own experience is concerned a cheerful and contented attitude to life as well as a balanced approach of living a healthy life are conducive to developing a greater sanity and sounder state of mind for any patients troubled with any mental sickness. And I hope that my suggestions will be useful to you.



Additional Information About Antipsychotics / Neuroleptics :



In addition, clinical evidences also indicate that those troubled with mental disorders, especially the serious ones, shouldn't just rely solely upon the medications as the one and only means of solution to their mental problems.


To put it bluntly, such medications, they are no different from sleeping pills whereby their calming effects just 'come and go' after the lapse of their effective period whilst their potential disastrous side effects can be permanent upon manifestations. In medical sense, such mental disorders, especially the serious ones are mainly caused by the malfunctionings of the mood regulator neurotransmitter, especially Serotonin in the brain. Next, though the related medications can to a certain extent bring such a severe mental disorder under control by 'artificially' regulating, blocking and controlling the re-uptake of it in the brain of the persons suffering from it, medications alone however, by no means would be able to deal conclusively with the problems due to the fact that the root causes of such a disorder is actually resulting largely from the environmental, circumstantial and other interpersonal factors (or the changes of them) that are deemed to be emotionally and adversely unacceptable to the ones suffering from it to a very great extent. Such negative changes in turn actually account for the negative behavioural changes in them as described


In short, it remains the truth that most of the antipsychotics / neuroleptics meant for especially the treatment of chronic mental illnesses would tend to work in such a way that they would need to change / alter the chemical balances in the brain of those taking such medications in the process of bringing such disorders under control. In the process of doing so, such a mechanism would unavoidably and eventually antagonize the neurotransmitters of the nervous system, especially the serotonin and dopamine (which is necessary for various neuromuscular functions), and hence disturb and interfere with the normal functionings of the nerves of the human body.


Next, though it may take years for such undesirable side effects / scenario to manifest onto the ones taking such medications, I am just in the opinion that in the case of the medications having potentially such unwanted side effects, it would naturally be the duty of the medical personnel / specialists-in-charge to take all the precautionary measures to safeguard the well-being of the patients for the sake of their healthcare and welfare.


The real-life examples that I have come across so far is such that for the ones relying merely upon medications and nothing else to deal with their mental disorders, they would tend to develop both emotional and psychological dependences upon such medictions over the long-term whilst getting their mental conditions deteriorated from time to time, eg, from neurosis to psychosis and then just acquire all those almost irreversibly disastrous undesirable side effects like Extrapyramidal Symptoms, Tardive Dyskinesia, Dystonia, Akathisia, Parkinsonism disorders etc from such medications in the end.


In such a connection, psychotherapy, emotional and other communication supports would be needed to complement the use of the related medications to achieve greater curative effects for such patients troubled by chronic mental disorder.


As such, medications is one thing, but the mental / cognitive abilities of the patients themselves to eventually change their views and perceptions about their environments / surroundings, circumstances and people they are facing in a more positve way, particularly developed through the help of such counselling supports from the others in order for them to really get better and gradually develop positive behavioural / personal changes, is simply another thing that cannot achieved solely with the help of medications alone.


In a nutshell, medications alone by no means can be a substitute for the positive interpersonal experiences that such patients would eventually need for genuine improvement and recovery of their sanity and the use of them should at the same time be complemented by other psychotherapy efforts to achieve the purpose of holistic healing.


Lastly, I hope that the information given above will turn out to be useful to its intended readers. Thank you.

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Re : Suggested Acupuncture Technique For The Treatment of Eyelid-twitching sickness - Extra Descriptions



Note: The following is only meant as reference materials to the intended readers.


This is meant as a follow-up to give you some additional details about the acupuncture technique I have mentioned to you before. Well, regarding the acupuncture point I have mentioned in my article for the suggested cure for eyelid-twitching, its exact location is at the back of the palm of one's right hand, which is 1.5 cm (applicable to the average adults only) measured vertically from the point of intersection (that would appear visibly when the fingers are closed loosely together) between the thumb and the forefinger. (Kindly take note that this point is located at a much 'fleshy' instead of a much 'boney' area - perhaps you would need to briefly explore that part of your right hand at the same time to locate that point, and I hope you will understand that the hand structures of each person differ from one another).


When the acupuncture point is identified and marked accordingly, you can then re-open your hand , and then what you all can do is to sit down, and at the same time press onto that acupuncture point (using just mild force) with any long blunt-pointed object such as toothpick, a normal writing pen (which is out of ink of course) etc against your chin (suggested for convenience purpose) for a continuous 2 hours (during any time in a day), and it's preferably to do that when you are about to go to sleep at night (so that you have more free time to do it). However , if you are eager to find out the very exact location of that particular acupuncture point to further verify the information given above, I would suggest you to seek consultancy from a licensed acupuncturist.


Next, about the question of how would one know that he / she is applying the blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressure at the right point (the "He Gu" acupuncture point), well, the nerves of our bodies especially the ones closely adjacent to each other, would tend to interwind, overlap and interconnect among one another. Whilst the 1.5 cm and its location on the wrist as portrayed in the diagram added in the related prior post above for the 'He Gu' acupuncture point is actually a standard measure for the size of the hands of the average grown adults.


Next, applying blunt-pointed instrument-aided pressings upon it (or any points around that 'He Gu' acupuncture point area - please refer to the diagram) will actually generate direct stimulations to the other nerves surrounding that pressed point around the wrist area as well, and subsequently, produce a reflexology stimulus / 'qi' that will flow / travel right up to the 'final destinations' (please refer to the medical references weblink added in the related post below), which are the peripheral nerves attached to the muscles of the entire face, especially the eyelids to generate the desired healing effects to the intended areas by gradually restoring their bodily chemical balances. In my case and the others, that acupuncture technique actually serves to gradually and eventually drive out the risperdal toxins / other related contaminating substances that disrupt the normal functioning of the dopamine neurotransmitters chemicals of the neurons / nerve cells around our eyelid muscles and cause all those rapid unwanted eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking, totally out of our bodies and enable us to get totally cured once and for all in the end.
Please be reminded that a good sleep at night throughout the therapy period is essential for the healing to be effectively done. And a person shouldn't associate oneself again with the underlying causes such as over-straining of the eyes, excessive cafeine intake, allergy/overdosage of certain medication (with muscle spasms side effects) that causes this non-stop eyelid-twitching to the particular person in the first place to avoid a relapse of that sickness, especially after getting cured from it.


Please take note that one should continually apply that method in the case where it proves to be effective in dealing with the eyelid twitching problem (after trying it for about 3 days' time).


For your reference, I get my eyelid twitching stopped the next day after the acupuncture treatment. But when I stop the treatment for the next few days, the twitchings just come back again. Based on the acupuncturist, the explanation for the relapse is such that if one were to apply just one-off / short-term treatment, it would then only serve to disperse the dopamine-disturbing toxin / other 'contaminating agents' around one's eye nerves enabling the twitching to stop just temporarily (without totally purging such toxins / 'contaminating agents' out of the human body). So, it works just like doing a physiotherapy whereby one should complete the whole course of treatment (in this case, applying that self-administered technique persistently for weeks/ a few months) to get the eyelid-twitching sickness totally cured effectively once and for all in the end.


Next, the suggested duration of two-hour period/day (continuous non-stop healing process) for that self-administered treatment is just what I have recommended so far to other persons having the similar symptoms based on my very own healing experience from this eyelid-twitching sickness and the others who suffer from it (who eventually get it totally cured). All in all, it would acutally depend on one's healing progress for the eyelid twitching sickness upon applying that suggested self-administered acupuncture method.


Please refer to the thumbnail attached to this reply for a pictorial illustration of that acupuncture point. Thank you.



Note :


Based on the feedbacks and responses so far from the ones (both in my real life and those seeking helps from me through email) applying this suggested self-administered acupuncture therapy for chronic, especially medication-induced rapid non-stop eyelid twitching / eye-blinking disorders, it just turns out that empirically the longer blunt-pointed object such as the normal writing pen (which is out-of-ink of course) etc is much more effective and practical (than a toothpick) for this suggested cure especially when it comes to applying the instrument-aided pressings on the specified "He Gu" acupuncture point as illustrated in the post above. Besides, since it won't cause much undesirable physical annoyances to its users, it is thus a much more user-friendly implement for this suggested acupuncture technique.

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Further In-depth Details & Extra Information About The Acupuncture Technique Recommended For Non-stop Eyelid-twitching Sickness



The information given below is only meant as reference materials to the intended recipients.


In fact, my confidence in the effectiveness of this acupuncture technique that I recommend in this website is built upon the very fact of the final recovery (which can be observed within weeks & a few months ) of dozens of such people in my real life over the past few years who have suffered persistently from such non-stop eyelid-twitching problems, especially the ones who get this sickness in the first place from the muscle spasms side effects of certain medication, long-term emotional traumas that affect their central nervous system etc, who in turn get almost an observable obvious immediate relief (within a few days time), of which I have witnessed these myself, from the acupuncture method I recommend personally to them.


Actually these people shared almost the same painful experience as me from such debilitating sickness and for your information, there were many of them who were not so well-to-do, and hence they could not afford such expensive medical bills of seeing the medical specialists or to get Botox injections / surgical treatment to deal with their non-stop eyelid-twitching problems. Therefore, when I recommended such an acupuncuture technique to them, I did it out of charity, sympathy and compassion, and thank God that it worked on each and everyone of them.


Since I am not belonging to the medical field or an acupuncturist myself, I thus would not know whether such an acupuncture technique would actually work in the case of genetical eyelid-twitching sickness, and honestly speaking, out of so many people to whom I have personally recommended that acupuncture treatment, I have not yet come across any of such cases before. Nevertheless, I am pretty sure that most of the people with non-stop eyelid-twitching problems actually get this sickness from other post-birth causes rather than genetically, and I believe that once the acupuncture point is clearly identitified, the recommended technique would work effectively to provide reliefs to the ones suffer from post-birth causes-induced non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness.


However, I still have to admit that although I have recently received some reply emails from the intended readers who say that this acupuncture technique actually works effectively on them to deal with their non-stop eyelid-twitching problems, I would still strongly advise the ones interested in the acupuncture treatment to seek consultancy about its validity & the very acupuncture treatment for this sickness from the licensed acupuncturist in view of the very fact that I could not personally point out to them the exact location of such acupuncture point.


Another thing is that since the ones to whom I have personally recommended such acupuncture treatment for the treatment of non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness are actually all grown adults, the "1.5 cm measure" mentioned in these articles mentioned above would thus definitely not be applicable to the young children whose hand structures are naturally very much smaller. Next, given that the skin textures of small children tend to be very much delicate and tender, and hence more fragile than that of the adults, they thus should definitely be attented to by the licensed acupuncturists to deal with their eyelid-twitching problems in the case where they choose this choice of therapy.


In addition, I would like to tell you very frankly that in the very first place when I was treated by my acupuncture physician to deal with my own non-stop eyelid twitching sickness, I was actually annoyed by such needle-based therapy and as a matter of fact, I really feel very uncomfortable with both the prospect and the very circumstance of getting my hand stuck with such acupuncture needles that are pierced right into the flesh through that acupuncture point for such acupuncture therapy. Furthermore, given the fact that his acupuncture clinic is located distant away in the other state from the place I live, I thus have requested him to provide me with an alternative acupuncture method to deal with my eyelid-twitching sickness. And as a matter of fact, that alternative acupuncture method which requires the use of blunt-pointed object rather than sharp-pointed acupuncture needle and involves only pressing (using just mild force) onto the surface of the identified acupuncture point rather than piercing of acupuncture needle right into the flesh, did make me feel a lot more comfortable and mind-easing.


Besides, given that I could administer this simple therapy on my own without having to travel all the way to look for the acupuncture physician to get follow-up treatment for my non-stop eyelid-twitching sickness, it thus tremendously affords me a great deal of flexibility as well as time-and- cost-saving conveniences in helping me to deal with this sickness and get it cured in the end (I personally have applied this therapy for about 2 months and I no longer need to exercise that self-administered acupuncture cure anymore nowadays ever since I get this eye-sickness totally cured once and for all a few years back). Thank you.

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Please refer to the following weblinks for further information about the acupuncture point & other medications mentioned in the articles above :



Details of
The Acupuncture
Point :

Acupuncture . LI4 . He Gu . Large Intestine Meridian



Risperdal :

Risperdal Information from Drugs.com



Seroquel :

Seroquel Information from Drugs.com



Botox :

Botox facts and comparsions at Drugs.com

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Tardive Dyskinesia


Please refer to the following weblink for further information about such non-stop eyelid twitching sickness, which is actually one of the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia as mentioned in the prior article above :




Tardive dyskinesia

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Traditional Acupressure Vs Acupuncture Cure Suggested Above


Based on the acupuncturist who deal with my chronic eyelid-twitching sickness, unlike the other traditional method of acupressure which involves the use of fingers to press and massage the acupuncture point, the use of blunt-pointed object as instructed to me for the treatment of such chronic eyelid-twtiching is actually both intended as a substitute for the acupuncture needle and meant as a 'leverage' to provide an adequately focused and hence a 'reflexology stimulus' that is strong enough to deal more precisely and effectively with that acupuncture point as mentioned above.


Whereas, if that acupuncture point is to be treated with fingers, the stimulus effect generated would be very much smaller due to the fact that such pressings and massagings would reasonably not last long enough to provide any reliefs for the chronic eyelid-twitching. Besides, given the larger suface area of the fingers as well as their rounded physical shape (compared to the blunt-pointed objects), a large part of the forces produced from such pressings and massagings would then be reasonably applied onto the related muscles rather than directly onto the intended nerves through the related acupuncture point to deal effectively with such sickness.

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Further Details About Tardive Dyskinesia


For further information about Tardive Dyskinesia, please refer to the following :



Tardive Dyskinesia Horror Stories from Bill Sardi's Knowledge of Health

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Conclusion


In the first place, I would consider myself really fortunate enough to eventually get totally cured from such an abnormal eyelid twitching sickness which is a symptom of Tardive Dyskinesia caused by prolonged intake of Risperdal.


I don't know really much about the levels of compliance for the established medical ethics for the modern western countries of U.S and other European nations, but as for the country that I live in, which is not as modern or developed, such an issue tends to be ignored by the related medical personnel. To be really frank with you, the psychiatrist who prescribes Risperdal to me in the very first place just dispenses this medication to me more as a mere 'routine' each time I visit his practice and he has actually never notified to me the underlying side effects of such medication when it is taken for the long-term. And even when observing my abnormal eyelid twitching symptom that appears to be more and more obvious to him, he also choose to ignore it and just keep asking me to continue taking the medication.


For your further information, Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome tends to be a rare medical term which is rather unfamiliar to most of the medical personnel in my home country. As such, initially when I sought treatment for my abnormal eyelid twitching, most of the normal medical specialists actually failed to associate such a symptom with the Risperdal drug that I had been taking. In the end, I found the right medical experts who had informed knowledge of my conditions in the expensive private medical centres and honestly speaking, the medical details that I included in my articles were actually told by them during my numerous visits to their practices.


Whilst by the time I have totally recovered from such a sickness, I resume my work in my former firm and at the same time I also undertake a committment as a part-time social worker for my religious body with the main duty of providing counselling services to the in-patients of certain psychiatric wards and dwellers of certain special-care nursing homes. Similarly, most of the doctors-in-charge of these facilities, based on my interviews with them, also tend to be very much ignorant about the adverse side effects of such anti-psychotic drugs, and as a result, the persons taking such medications would tend to be the ones suffer unknowingly from their potential side effects. For this reason, I thus feel that the welfare of these people has been rather 'unintentionally neglected'.


As such, by posting these articles over the net, I just hope that I could promote a higher level of self-awareness among the existing persons taking such anti-psychotic drugs about such syndrome of Tardive Dyskinesia and the need to take the necessary precautions against it. Thank you.

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Note of Thanks


First of all, thank you for being kind enough to allow me to post these articles in your website.


As far as the anti-psychotic drugs and other related medications which carry such inherent side effects as Tardive Dyskinesia are concerned, I am actually in the opinion that appropriate levels of professional care and discretion should be exercised by the related medical personnel when prescribing and dispensing such medications so that the medical well-being of the related patients can be duly taken of effectively.


In this regard, I am pretty sure that the physicians of the related fields in such countries as United States and other technologically advanced European nations are appropriately eligible and duly conscientious enough to fulfill such a requirement in carrying out such a demanding task.


Unfortunately, such an expected ideal scenario has never been the case in my home country as well as other nations which are not as modern and developed.


For your information, the related patients in my home country have also the necessary access to the similar neuroleptic, anti-psychotic and other related drugs like these modern nations for the treatment of their related sicknesses. Unfortunately, due to the lack of knowledge of the potential side effects of such medications on the part of the patients as well as the failure of certain related medical personnel to duly exercise the essential professional duty of care and other required precautionary measures to safeguard the medical interest of these patients, because of both negligence and sheer ignorance, such category of persons, especially the young children getting such related treatments would tend to be the ones who suffer unknowingly, silently and helplessly from the side effects of such medications in the end.


In such a connection, being a social worker dealing with such category of persons and given the fact that humanitarian principles are the priorities of my religious body and any other charity organisations, I thus feel that I am vested with a responsibility to do my part to promote a higher level of consciousness of such Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome among the related persons so that the unwanted saddening disasters and misfortunes can be effectively avoided whilst the sorry plight of the existing victims of the side effects of such medications mentioned above can be finally relieved.


Lastly, I would like to express my heartfelt thankfulness for your kind and generous support for such a cause. Thank you very much.

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Tardive Dyskinesia Phenomena - Follow-up


With all due respect, in regard of the phenomena explained in my prior message, I would like to highlight to you that the young children in my home country would always tend to be the ones who suffer most innocently and painfully from the ordeals of the bodily-damaging side effects of such Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome owing to their much more vulnerable physical conditions and weaker immune system.


Based on what I have observed so far, such children would eventually tend to have a very much lower self-esteem and in most cases, lead an underprivileged life getting alienated by their peers due to their 'funny looks'. In other words, their lives are basically ruined permanently by the time they get such a sickness.


While their parents, especially the mothers would always tend to immerse themselves in deep anxieties and grave sorrows worrying from time to time about the 'undiagnosed conditions' of their children as well as their unpromising future whilst at the same time simply do not even have a clue of what exactly is going on.


Therefore, I would like to make an appeal and imploration to the related parties to have the necessary mercy and sympathy on humanitarian ground for the sorry plight of these people in the hope of putting an end to such tragedies and misfortunes.

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Human Reactions Towards Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome - Children Vs Adult


Kindly take note that Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome may affect the movements of other parts of human body too. In this case, I really sympathize those small kids and other young children of my home country who tend to suffer from all other symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome on other parts of their bodies apart from the facial muscles.


For your information, based on my observations so far, the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia would mostly manifest almost immediately among such young children after their intake of 1 to 2 weeks' dosage of the related medications that carry the inherent side effects of Tardive Dyskinesia. In this regard, the examples of such Tardive Dyskinesia-related medications may include metoclopramide ( Reglan), prochlorperazine (Compazine) - being medications for gastrointestinal problems, promethazine ( Phenergan) - being medications for cough and so on that are often prescribed to the children and such medications would tend to cause the disastrous side effects of muscle deformity that affect the rest of their lives.(Please refer to the weblinks included below for further details about the Tardive Dyskinesia syndrome and the list of such medications often prescribed to children).


Given their much more delicate and tiny physique as well as weaker immune system, they are thus far more medically susceptible to the bodily-damaging side effects of such Tardive Dyskinesia-related medications compared to the adults who naturally and reasonably have a far higher level of bodily tolerance and resistance for the side effects of such medications, and that is the reason why the latter could take such medications for a much longer period of time whilst at the same time running a lower risk of suffering from their side effects.


Whilst in terms of treatment for such Tardive Dyskinesia symptoms among the young children, given that they are naturally disadvantaged by their tiny and yet fragile infected bodily parts, these category of persons, even when they are fully accessible to the whatever necessary therapeutical devices and apparatus as well as other related corrective antidotal pharmaceutical drugs, these pitiful fellows quite often would still invariably and sometimes almost undoubtedly have very much slimmer chances of recovery from their apparent physcial defects and disabilities caused by this Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome compared to the adults who would tend to have a much higher prospect of recovery from the similar sickness due to their fully-grown and much firmer physical conditions.


As such, from my point of view, it would be wiser and more rational for any related parties, especially the parents to take the additional care and precautionary measures to pay the necessary attentions to and cross-examine the medications meant to be taken by their children for the treatment of any of their sicknesses with other more reliable sources in case of any inherent dire side effects that may be potentially present in these medications so that such undesired saddening disasters and tragedies can be effectively avoided in the very first place.


Details About Tardive Dyskinesia :

Tardive Dyskinesia


Further Details About The Medications Specified Above :


Metoclopramide :

Metoclopramide Information from Drugs.com


Reglan :

Reglan Information from Drugs.com


Prochlorperazine :

prochlorperazine medical facts from Drugs.com


Compazine :

Compazine (prochlorperazine) medical facts from Drugs.com


Promethazine :

Promethazine Information from Drugs.com


Phenergan :

Phenergan Information from Drugs.com

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Summary :


Tardive Dyskinesia actually falls under the EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms) syndrome which may well include dystonia, parkinsonism etc.


Such EPS syndrome (especially physical movement disorders, including Hemifacial Spasms triggered by bodily chemical imbalances) in turn is caused by disturbances to the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters essential for the control of human body motions) in the nervous system which is normally induced by most of the AAP's (atypical antipsychotics).

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Follow-up :


Please refer to the weblink below for a follow-up of the information given above :


KGET Community - Eyecare / Hemifacial Spasm : Non-stop Eyelid-twitching - My Healing Experience & Other Medical Details


http://community.kget.com/forums/thread/3459525.aspx

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Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS) - Brief Introduction


Please refer to the weblink below for medical details about Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS) :


Extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)

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Follow-up of My Own Healing Experience From Tardive Dyskinesia-induced Non-stop Eyelid-twitching


In fact most of the neurology-related disorders nowadays are closely connected to the side effects of modern medications especially the Atypical Antipsychotics that carry the side effects of Extrapyramidal Symptoms (EPS), Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) etc that would potentially and eventually disturb the normal functioning of the dopamine receptors (one of the main neurotransmitters / key elements of neurons (nerve cells) in our nervous system essential for the control of human body motions) such as blocking them etc (in carrying out their medical mechanisms to cure certain other sicknesses and unfortunately is also one of the unavoidable side effects of such medications). Next, such a situation would then lead to bodily chemical imbalances and then potential interruptions to the "message sending, conveying and relaying" neuron operations between the human brain and any parts of the human body that would in turn trigger off a variety of largely uncontrollable involuntary and purposeless movement disorders on any parts of our body that are substantially beyond control of the ones suffering from them.


Next, no matter how sophisticated the modern drugs are being invented and developed, especially the second-generation antipsychotics, such a potential side effect remains inherent in such medications that carry the side effects of antagonizing the dopamine receptors. Even though the possibility of manifestation of such neuromuscular symptoms may be very small or even negligible as proven by the established scientific research, other experimental and clinical verifications, it would still depend on such other factors as the different physical conditions of the users of such drugs, other unexpected possible allergy cases etc.


All in all, it would be the amount of medical attention and professional care of the medical personnel dealing with the specific cases of their patients and dispensing the drugs with such dopamine-disturbing side effects that would be primarily essential to ensure the non-occurrence of such disorders or minimize the risk of getting such disastrous and undesired neuromuscular side effects.


Unfortunately, based on my own personal experience of seeking treatment for such neurological Tardive Dyskinesia-induced Hemifacial Spasm disorders (abnormal involuntary eyelid twitching), most of the related medical specialists simply do not reveal this underlying truth about my actual medical conditions to me.


For your further information, I used to work as a business executive with a promising future not until I suffered from the depression sicknness due to overwhelming work-related pressure and then such Tardive Dyskinesia-induced abnormal eyelid twitching sickness that eventually made me force to quit my job and stop working for more than half a year seeking repeated and numerous treatments for it. And surprisingly, most of the normal specialists just avoided, if not failed to associate my eyelid twitching sickness with the antipsychotic drugs that I had been taking all these while, so did the psychiatrist dispensing such medications to me. And in fact, he just expected and insisted me to continue taking them even when observing that such Tardive Dyskinesia side effects of Hemifacial Spasms were manifesting more and more obviously to him each time I paid visit to his practice for a medical follow-up and to get the same medications from him. Disappointingly, when I eventually questioned him about my abnormally rapid eyelid twitching sickness, he just said that "since I'm not an eye doctor, I naturally wouldn't know the cause of such sickness' . And then he just referred me to another eye doctor of his choice who diagnosed it as other symptoms like dry eyes, bacteria infections etc.


Later on, I just found out that there were quite a number of people who also suffered from such medication side effects of Extrapyramidal Symptoms, Tardive Dyskinesia etc, especially those working adults who were not so well-to-do and at the same time had a family to support and other miscellaneous financial commitments to bear were actually almost in the same boat as me and their lives were nearly ruined in the end together with the ones closely dependent on them. Saddeningly, they did not have the slightest idea of what was actually going on to them due to the negligences and deliberate concealments of their actual medical conditions by the doctors-in-charge


As for my own personal painful experience, I suffered from the Tardive Dyskinesia-induced abnormally rapid non-stop eyelid twitching that resulted from the dopamine-disturbing side effects of Risperdal drugs that were dispensed to me by the relevant psychiatrist to deal with my depression sickness. The problem was such that, before I got such an abnormally rapid eyelid-twitching sickness the depression sickness itself would merely caused me to lose interest in mixing with other people and to a certain extent made me feel reluctant to go to work sometimes.


Nevertheless, by the time such dopamine-disturbing side effects of Risperdal began to cause me abnormally rapid eyelid twitching, it caused me enormous embarrassments in front of so many other people and subsequently denied me of even the very basic abilities to read, watch tv, drive and carry out other daily and basic routines and then it cost me my job making me out-of-work for about six months. To me, the side effects of Risperdal is more distressing, if not, mentally-anguising than the depression sickness that Risperdal purported to cure in the first place.


Can you guys just imagine what an irony could it be when the drugs that are supposed to cure depression would cause such nearly irreversible sicknesses as Tardive Dyskinesia etc due to their unavoidable side effects that are in reality much more ‘depressing' to the patients than the depression sickness itself.


Next, when such unavoidable side effects become more and more serious and obvious and actually make the persons suffering from it getting more and more depressed, what should they do? Continuing taking such problematic medications for depressions to alleviate their mental sicknesses and so as to make them ‘feel better' for the time being at the expense of getting more and more serious side effects of such other bodily damaging sicknesses from such problematic medications later on ? Then what has exactly happened to these patients ? Would it be warranted to conclude that they have been plunged into such a vicious circle of ‘drug addiction' that would ultimately get thier lives ruined in the end if they were to be instructed by their doctors to continue doing so ?


I am less fortunate enough to come from such a less-developed country to have access only to the outdated drugs with greater hazardous side effects whilst the related users of such defective drugs are mostly less medical-conscious and often over-relying on the misleading advices and instructions of the doctors, only to the detriment of their health and well-being in the end. In fact, regardless of the fact that more and more advanced versions of Botox injections and other sophisticated drugs with lesser side effects meant for the treatment of mental disorders and other related illnesses are invented in U.S and other more advanced European countries from time to time, the so-called specialists in my home country which is less-developed would still insist to dispense and apply the outdated drugs for the treatment of such sicknesses knowingly just to save costs and reap more profits from their custormers. And that is the reason why I tend to get an ever increasing dosage of the same older version of Botox injection from the same neurosurgeon time and time again for the treatment of my Tardive Dyskinesia-related abnormal eyelid twitching before I am fortunate enough to finally get it totally cured through acupuncture treatment. For your further information, I actually paid 5000 dollars for each Botox treatment from an expensive private medical center of my home country and I was surprised to know from other U.S and European people over the internet that such Botox treatment would cost them only 500 dollars the most in their own countries. Furthermore, such medical costs are covered by insurance scheme in these modern countries in contrast to my own home country whereby all the medical costs are expected in a non-negotiable way to be paid immediately on cash terms by the ones receiving such treatments from such expensive medical centres and insurance coverage rarely and hardly works down here.


So, In line with my vocation as a part-time social worker for my religious organization, by posting these articles over the internet, I hope that apart from sharing my healing experience from such Tardive Dyskinesia-induced abnormal eyelid twitching, these information would eventually raise the level of self-awareness and self-consciousness about the hazards of Tardive Dyskinesia and Extrapyramidal Symptoms as well as the medications causing such disorders, especially the modern Atypical Antipsychotics meant for the treatment of certain mental disorders so that the intended persons could avoid following in my footsteps of getting such disastrous side effects from these drugs by being more medical-conscious and expecting the medical personnel-in-charge to exercise the necessary due diligence, responsibilities and obligations for their healthcare.


Lastly, I hope that the information provided will be useful to the intended readers. Thank you.

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Issues of Medical Ethics In Less Developed Nations


In the context of such modern nations as U.S and other developed European nations whereby most of the medical personnel are subject to the strict professional protocol especially in terms of dispensing the medications with potential disastrous side effects to their patients, the medical welfare of this group of people would be greatly ensured in such a case.


Unfortunately, I am just simply one of the many victims of gross negligence of the so-called licensed medical specialists of a less-developed country who care about nothing but the medical fees that I would pay to them in return for such problematic and defective drugs regardless of any bodily damages that these medications have inflicted upon me as visible and readily observable by these group of unethical medical professionals each time I pay regular visits to their practices for 'regular supplies' of such problematic medications.


Next, when such group of related patients in my home country start to have doubts about the disastrous side effects of the antipsychotic medications dispensed regularily to them and actually question the related 'medical experts' about such issues, invariably almost all of these 'professionals' will try to shirk their responsibilities by keeping them in the dark by saying directly 'I don't know what has exactly happened to you as I'm just a psychiatrist and not an eye doctor, chiropractic doctor etc' and they would then refer the related patients to other medical specialists of other fields who would in turn give other misleading diagnosis about their actual neurological / neuromuscular sicknesses to these poor patients (even when those problematic medications are presented face-to-face directly to them in their own practices). All in all, there seems to be a 'tacit conspiracy' between these medical personnel in my home country to work against the medical welfare of these poor patients and to put it bluntly, they are just paying these doctors for those seemingly 'logical and plausible lies' about the actual medical conditions they are having exactly. Next, to further worsen such a pathetic situation, my home country tends to become a 'dumping ground' all the while for decades for the outdated medications with greater unwanted side effects from such modern nations as U.S and other advanced European countries.


Frankly speaking, as a part-time social worker working for the welfare of these poor group of people and a former victim myself who has suffered painfully like them, I hope that by airing these facts and my views through the internet, such a saddening scenario will be exposed to more and more benevolent individuals and such an exploitation would come to an end one day. Thank you.

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Brief Summary / My Personal Opinions


As a brief summary for the prior posts made above, I get this abnormally rapid non-stop eyelid twitching in the very first place due to the dopamine-disturbing side effect of Risperdal that, together with other related medications, which account for most of the so-called 'undiagnosed' neurological movement and neuromuscular disorders.


In my case, since it is the 'Risperdal toxin' which accumulates mostly around my eye nerves that cause all the abnormal, involuntary, uncontrollable, purposeless and non-stop rapid eyelid twitchings. As such, the acupuncture treatment (as mentioned in the prior posts above) administered onto my "He Gu" acupuncture point actually works in a way that it would gradually purge such 'Risperdal toxin' that cause all the 'unexplained' twitchings and spasms' out of the nerves around my eyes and enable me to get totally cured once and for all from this sickness in the end.


Next, such a mechanism about the acupuncture therapy mentioned above is what has been elaborated to me by the acupuncturist who deal with my eyelid twitching sickness. Personally, I feel that such an explanation sounds rather logical and reasonable to me.


In such a connection, I really wonder if the similar acupuncture treatment and mechanism would be applicable and workable too in the case of the non-stop twitchings and spasms for the other parts of human body such as arms, legs etc that are in turn similarly caused by the dopamine-disturbing side effects of certain medications (by applying acupuncture treatment onto the other related acupuncture points to purge the dopamine-disturbing toxins causing such twitchings and spasms out the the related peripheral nerves of the other parts of human body to deal with these neurological movement / neuromuscular disorders).


For further information about such 'hypothesis', please refer to the following weblink (the related post under the "My Personal Views / Note of Caution" ).

TCM Forum: Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop Eyelid-twitching


Lastly, I hope that my views / opinions will finally contribute to a further advancement of the medical science in terms of the search and discovery for a conclusive treatment for such medication-induced dopamine-disturbing neurological movement and neuromuscular disorders. Thank you.

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Further Follow-up :


Please refer to the weblink below for a further follow-up of the posts made above :


http://www.health-forums.com/schizop...asm-64011.html

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Additional Information About Antipsychotics / Neuroleptics Meant For The Treatment of Mental Illnesses - Additional Reference Materials



Included below is a weblink giving extra details for the prior related article posted above and I hope that the information given will turn out to be useful to its intended readers. Thank you.


Recovering from Neuroleptic ('Antipsychotic') Drugs

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General Cognitive Behavioural Process



Well, a psychologist has actually explained to me before that any human actions / behaviours are generally dictated by a cognitive mental process summarized such as follows, and it would apply as well to the ones suffering from any mental disorders, but nevertheless are still mentally and cognitively well-aware of their surroundings and other objects / factors around them. Next, I find that such reasonings really make great senses, and hence, I just feel like to share it with the intended readers :-


Perceptions (anything we see, we hear, we know, we taste, we touch etc from our surroundings / other people) => Feelings (the way we feel about our surroundings and other people based on anything we see, hear, know, taste, touch etc) => Thoughts (the types of views and opinions that we form in our minds based on the types of feelings we have for anything we perceive) => Actions (how we choose to react in response to those surroundings / other people based on the feelings and thoughts that arise in our minds).


In such a regard, the underlying problem faced by the ones with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and other mental disorders are such that they would tend to treat their perceptions (as mentioned above) in a very much negatively different way, and that in turn results in them forming all those negative feelings, thoughts and then all those negative actions of which others get to label them as negative behavioural / personality changes.


For example, a person suffering from schizophrenia may, after 'observing' his surroundings, (Perceptions), just in turn, for certain reasons like past traumatic experiences, anxiety disorders, panic attacks etc, would tend to spontaneously and directly feel very much uncomfortable, anxious, scared and fearful for what they get to see, hear, know, touch etc (Feelings) , and in extreme cases, maybe they may get to hear 'voices' and feel very much threatened by their surroundings then have such false and unreal imaginations of which they subconsciously choose to firmly believe in that someone out there is 'really' / 'actually' threatening his life (Thoughts or in this case, purely false hallucinations), and finally just try his very best based on his own misguided judgements, to subconsciously become violently defensive and hostile against the others in order to save himself, from being killed etc (Actions).


Similarly, such an explanation to a certain extent would apply as well to the ones having such disorders like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Claustrophobia (a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space) etc whereby a given surrounding, which may appear normal to other people, would nevertheless and otherwise appear to be abnormally unacceptable to them possibly because of past traumatic experiences, anxiety disorders, panic attacks and other reasons. Next, the feelings and thoughts that such people would have based what they perceive for the given surrounding in turn would be largely uncontrollable, if not subconciously involuntary, while their subsequent responses/ reactions / actions based on their such negative feelings and thoughts, would in turn be very much the so-called reflex reactions which are substantially and in most cases, totally beyond their self-control.


In this regard, it would be very much helpful for the ones dealing with such persons to understand their basic underlying problems and difficulties and in turn treat them considerately and thoughtfully with care, respects and most importantly, compassion, whilst at the same time, also try to be friendly and amicable to them in such as a way that rather than feeling uncomfortable with a given surrounding and becoming agitated, these persons would on the other hand, feel more mind-easing, emotionally calm, placated, pacified, soothed, comfortable and relaxing with that given 'uneasy' / 'uncomfortable' / 'threatening' surroundings that they perceive. Subsequently, all these efforts will definitely be tremendously conducive to the improvements of the conditions of their disorders and possibly the final recovery in the end.


With all due respect, the antipsychotics and other neuroleptics just serve to temporarily block such negative nerve impulses about their such negative perceptions from getting sent to the brain of the ones having such disorders so as to artificially block all those negative feelings, thoughts, and then the actions. Hence, they are simply not a conclusive and permanent solution to such disorders.


Well, in such a context, the most direct way of treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the most effective, and maybe largely hypothetical way would be for such persons to totally change their perceptions about their surroundings, environments, the other people in a positive way and to start having positive and realistic thoughts and at the same time, to get rid of those hallucinations, fanciful ideas, little by little gradually and slowly out of their mind and replace them with anything normal, practical, realistic and positive. Theorectically, positive perceptions => positive feelings =>positive thoughts => positive actions.


In this sense, a great deal of interpersonal, interactive, communications and emotional supports from the ones genuinely willing to help them would be very much essential in getting this achieved, essentially in changing the ways they perceive, feel and think for anything they deal with so as to enable them to come to a decision on their own to have positive actions.


Nonetheless, above all these external constructive helps from the others, all the self-initiatives, self-controls and self-disciplines that are meant to be exercised, essentially on the parts of the ones suffering from such a disorder, particularly to 'mentally-train' themselves to think realistically, positively, optimistically and to cast out / expel all those weird thoughts, hallucinations, fanciful imaginations and preposterous urges and whims little by little out of their minds and get them replaced with the positive, practical and realistic ones, so as to slowly develop positive behavioural changes in themselves, would in turn actually be the decisive factor in determining whether their conditions will pracitcally improve or not, slowly and gradually in the end.

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Statistics of Recovery Cases For Mental Illnesses




In fact, statistical evidences actually show that among the ones getting mental illnesses, especially the serious one like Schizophrenia, generally one-third of the population of such people would eventually manage to achieve full recovery, another one-third would gain significant improvements while getting occasional relapses of such disorders, whilst the remaining rest would just get their disorders worsened day after day until no recovery is conceivably possible.



In this regard, I could tell you very frankly that the former 2/3 of the population of the ones suffering from serious mental illnesses, especially the serious one like Schizophrenia (who have either achieved full recoveries or substantial improvements), are actually the ones who have successfully overcome their own inner senses of anxieties, fears, panics, phobias and eliminated all the delusional thoughts and hallucinations all eventually by themselves, having received all the necessary external medicational and interpersonal psychotherapy helps from the others.



Lastly, what I am trying to say is that as long as there're hopes in getting improvements for one's mental disorders, one should put in the necessary efforts and work hard towards that goal of gaining more and more sanities and finally full recoveries if possible.

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As a summary,



I'm suggesting the following as a solution to mental disorders :



1/3 of medicational helps + 1/3 of psychotherapies, interactive, interpersonal, emotional, communication, conselling supports from the others + 1/3 of self-determinations, self-initiatives, self-controls, self-wills and self-disciplines to think positively, rationally, realistically and practically as well as to lead a normal and healthy life



These are actually the advices I have obtained from many neurologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychologists as well as the very conclusions I have experienced myself.



Next, I must admit that it's quite arbitrary for me to do so in the first place. However, given the fact that there are more and more people nowadays, especially the ones having the mental disorders who would tend to rely heavlily, and if not completely, but at the same time, rather ignorantly upon medications as their sole and only means of dealing with their mental disorders, hence, by assigning the numerical proportion of '1/3' to each of those 3 variables for that 'equation' I'm just trying to convey a message to the intended readers that such factors as external psychotherapies, interactive / interpersonal, emotional / moral supports from the others as well as self-controls / self-efforts to think positively, they are just fairly as important as the medications when it comes to dealing with mental disorders.



Lastly, I hope that the information given will be relevant and useful to the intended readers. Thank you.

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Hallucinations / Delusions, symptoms of Schizophrenia - Brief Analysis




In fact, for the symptoms of hallucinations / delusions etc that might come along with certain mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc, well, I was actually informed by the psychiatrists and psychologists that all these hallucinations / delusions etc, 'they' are actually 'fed' on such negative feelings as fear, anger, frustrations, suspicions and all other fanciful, illogical, irrational, erratic and unreasonable senses of those suffering from such hallucinational disorders.



This is to say, the more and more, and the frequent and frequent that such people having hallucinations / delusions are to entertain / indulge / revel / be engrossed in such negative feelings of fear, anger, frustrations, suspicions and all other fanciful, illogical, irrational, erratic and unreasonable senses, and the stronger and stronger of those senses that such people suffering from schizophrenia / bipolar disorder tend to have, then the worse and worse their delusional and hallucinational conditions would tend to become / deteriorate over time.



Similarly, the same concepts and principles would fairly apply to certain mental diorders like depressions, anxieties, phobias, panic attacks etc whereby the more and more depressed, anxious, distressed, worried, dejected, panicked, desperate, emotionally impulsive, fearful (of certain things, surroundings, situations, people etc) a particular mentally-illed person can get, the more and more serious that such mental disorders would potentially deteriorate over the long-term.



So, one would really need to learn how to control oneself so as not to let their such negative senses running out of control.



In short, in dealing with such problems, just don't 'give' all these hallucinations / delusions etc what 'they' want (in these cases, that will be those negative unrealistic / irrational / wildly fanciful senses etc as described above) so as to prevent the symptoms from deteriorating from bad to worse. Whilst the same approaches would be effective for the other mental disorders too, such as the ones mentioned above.



So, the ways of overcoming these hallucinations / delusions, other mental disorders etc, on one point, would be to use certain related medications to temporarily bring such a condition under control (temporarily in the sense that medications have their limitations especially in terms of their effective curative period, whilst at the same time, such a 'temporary healing' is actually achieved through the artificial suppressing of negative nerve impulses to block all such negative feelings, thoughts - in this case, mainly the hallucinations, and finally the actions which arise from negative perceptions).



On the other hand, one's self-initiatives and self-efforts to exercise self-controls, self-disciplines, self-rationalisings, self-reasonings etc to overcome all those delusions and hallucinations would be of utmost essential in helping oneself to cope with such mental disorders.



This is to say, in order to overcome all those delusions, hallucinations etc, one would need to exercise all those self-initiatives, self-controls etc to exercise self-reasonings and self-rationalisings, so as to enable oneself to gradually and slowly think positively, rationally, realistically, reasonably, practically and sensibly, as well as, at the same time, to replace all those delusional, hallucinational thoughts, wild imaginations etc, bit by bit, with rational and reasonable thoughts and senses, just like the what the normal healthy people do.



In the meantime, one would reasonably require certain psychotherapy, emotional, interactive, interpersonal and communication supports in getting such goals achieved. In this regard, such other activities as doing sports, playing indoor games (such as chess, card games etc), engagings in one's favourite hobbies, watching comedies, reading something interesting, positively inspiring etc, would all be useful in both distracting one's mind from having delusions, hallucinations etc, whilst at the same time, subconsciously instilling into their minds all those optimistic and positive thoughts that one would need to deal with such disorders.



In short, having hallucinations, which to a certain extent might be associated with certain mental disorders, as well as the mental disorders themselves, well, they may be painful experiences to most people, however, it would take just the right treatments and other related remedial factors to achieve holistic healings for such disorders of hallucinations / delusions, other mental disorders etc.

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Mental Disorders - Further Explanations




Actually, in terms of mental disorders which may come along with hallucinations / delusions, all those external aides of medications, psychotherapies, interactive, interpersonal and emotional supports etc, they are all meant for the same ultimate goal of bringing such disorders under control and there is simply no doubt for that.



Next, since it's the ones having mental disorders are the ones who are actually suffering from such illnesses, which arise from negative perceptions, negative feelings and negative thoughts formed in their own brains / minds (instead of other people's brains / minds), it would eventually necessitate they themselves to put in their very own self- efforts, having received both external medicational and interpersonal helps from the others, to exercise self-controls and self-disciplines on their own to direct their own brains for self-reasonings, self-introspections and self-rationalisings.



This is to say, for the self-cognition / thinkings psychological part of the ones having mental diorders to form those positive feelings and positive thoughts in their own minds on their very own, and then to naturally develop postitive behavioural / personality changes, such a cognitive thought / thinking process actually can hardly be 'dictated' by anyone else other than they themselves. In such connection, as to the cognitive / thinking abilities / processes of different individuals, one of the simplest examples will be the process of learning a knowledge or something else whereby a person can get the best text materials, teachers, lecturers, tutors etc to assist one in his / her learnings, however, it would still ultimately depend on the very cognitive ability / process pertaining to that particular person which is then the key decisive factor in determining whether the knowledge is successfully acquired in the end or not.



In short, those self-efforts (related to self-cognitions), in the very end, will eventually be very much essential, or rather the decisive factor in determining whether the persons having mental disorders will achieve improvements / recoveries for their mental conditions or not.



In such a connection, I would like to add that in terms of all those self-determinations, self-initiatives, self-controls, self-wills and self-disciplines to think positively, rationally, realistically and practically as well as to lead a normal and healthy life, great patience maybe would take a long way in trying to achieve that. However, once such goals are achieved, it would also mean that the people trouble with mental disorders are just achieving leaps and bounds further and further towards the ever-improving mental conditions and then to the final complete recovery of their very mental disorders in the end.



Lastly, such goals, instead of being just sheer fantasies, they are actually the very realistic ones which in fact have been achieved by lots of people, especially the ones with tremendous patience.

[ntuc]

Mental Disorders / Mental Illnesses - Its Two General Categories : Neurosis & Psychosis - Brief Explanations




Generally, mental disorders / mental illnesses can be summarized into the two broad categories of neurosis and psychosis as explained below : -



- In the case of mental disorders / mental illnesses which mildly disturb the normal functionings of one's cognitive / thinking abilities, functions and processes (of the brains), this would give rise to behavioural problems (that affects only part of the personality), which are quite uncontrollable and involuntary. Next, such scenarios are generally labelled as neurosis. Its common examples would be depression, panic, anxiety, insecurity, irrational fears, obsessive- compulsive Disorders (OCD), hypochondria / neurasthenia etc. In this regard, such antidepressants like Prozac etc are actually meant for such mental disorders / mental illnesses. As such, please refer to the website below for further details :



neurosis: Definition from Answers.com

http://www.drugs.com/mtm/prozac.html



- In the very much serious cases of mental disorders / mental illnesses whereby one's cognitive / thinking abilities, functions and processes (of the brains) are severely disturbed and impaired, this would then cause the much more serious personality disorders which may involve such mentally dissociative states of delusions, hallucinations and in the worst case scenario, insanities. The most common examples would be scizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, bipolar disorder, paranoia etc - which are generally labelled as psychosis . In such a connection, such powerful tranquilizers as the antipsychotics / neuroleptics etc will usually be needed to deal with such much more serious mental disorders / mental illnesses. As such, please refer to the website below for further details :



psychosis: Definition from Answers.com

antipsychotic drug: Definition from Answers.com

[ntuc]

Compassionate & Humane Treatments Vs Brutality & Cruelty Treatments For The Mentally-illed Ones




"I disagree. Research and you will find that most people with a mental illness was locked away."



"You may be right, nevertheless, locking such persons away, well, most of the times may just worsen their conditons for the very fact that most of such mentally-illed people might actually have experienced extreme cases of oppression, interpersonal pressures, high stress and sometimes abuses by the other persons before they actually come to develop such mental disorders."



"Next, the surroundings of a limited confined space / environment, which in many cases may just represent some form of oppressions to such people, and well, I don't think that such confined surroundings are, in any way actually conducive to the improvement of the mental conditions of such people, especially when such people are actually locked away for a long period of time, for that may actually constitute another form of extreme oppressions to such people."



"And that's why psychotherapy and other interactive / interpersonal / emotional and communications supports are important for the mental health care of such people."



Well, I have something more to add about these quotations excerpted from the prior posts.



Actually as a part-time social worker, working along with other associates and dealing mainly with the in-patients of the government-funded psychiatric / mental wards and those of the special-care nursing homes, mainly by giving them our voluntary counselling therapies, one very common scenario that me and the other associates of social workers have observed so far, and yet pervasively concealed from the others, is actually the physical abuses, maltreatments and sometimes deliberate tortures etc inflicted by the related operatives-in-charge of such psychiatric facilities onto the mentally-retarded, senile and demented psychiatric in-patients of such medical facilities, which almost invariably go entirely unreported and grossly kept off the records. And most of the times, the victims involved may include those old senile people with impaired hearings, poor visions, severe cognitive problems, parkinson's disease, alzheimers, senile dementia etc. And whenever we come across such scenarios, we would try our best to stop such physical abuses, maltreatments and deliberate tortures from happening.



For your further information, for the psychiatrists and other medical personnel-charge of these medical facilities such as what we have observed so far, they would simply tend to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear on such physical abuses, mistreatments and sometimes deliberate tortures etc which happen in their very presences.



In such a connection, all these scenarios above simply remind me of certain past events, issues and scenarios about the supposedly right and correct way in which the mentally-illed patients should be treated in order to serve their best curative and health care interests in line with the very basic humanitarian grounds.



As such, please consider the following two websites included below :


Bedlam - Picture - MSN Encarta


Pinel Frees the Insane - Picture - MSN Encarta



Next, what I wish to say is that, along with everything that has been revealed and established in the distant past, I firmly believe that mentally-illed patients by right should be treated with greater amounts of cares, compassions, kindness, considerations and patience which are in turn geared towards the very practical purposes of the gradual step-by-step improvements of their mental conditions and recoveries of their sanities.



In this regard, brutalities, cruelties, violences, maltreatments, physical abuses, tortures and any other harsh treatments, along with all those intentional, deliberate and purposeful mockings, jeerings, ridicules, derisions, disparagings, scornfulness, sarcasms, insults, humiliations and other hurtful things which are inflicted by the others onto the mentally-illed persons, well, all these malicious acts, such as what the medical histories have undoubtedly revealed, they are in fact far more detrimental and damaging to the mentally-illed persons than the very mental disorders that these pathetic persons themselves are having at the same time.



Well, by right the society should have adopted very much more tolerant, considerate and compassionate approaches towards the ones troubled with mental disorders. This is simply for the fact that treating such mentally-illed people harshly instead of compassionately, that would only serve to make things worse for such people and at the same time, I am in the in the opinion that for those persons choosing to behave like 'bullies', who are actually so unconscionable / conscienless enough to the extent that they would actually bring themselves to purposefully do hurtful things to the mentally-illed ones, the society and community as a whole should feel ashamed of such very malicious acts of theirs.



In addition, there may be certain psychiatric in-patients who tend to behave and respond violently and aggressively to the others. And as social workers, as well as some of the psychiatrists that we work with, we simply understand that they are behaving so substantially, if not totally out of their own free will owing to the overwhelming psychotic influnces of the mental disorders that 'force' them to behave so. However, this is barely and hardly a valid ground for these mentally-illed people to be alienated and denied of any compassions and right treatments that they deserve from the psychiatrists and other related personnel. For your information, whenever we come across such patients, we would always try our best to calm them down at first, and then do our best to get their personal trusts and confidence so that we could go about influencing them in positive and sensible ways later on.



In a nutshell, mentally-illed people, despite the fact that they are mentally-abnormal compared to the perfectly healthy individuals, they are after all human beings just like anyone else. And as such, they would naturally deserve the basic human rights, due respects, cares, compassions and patiences they need from the others for the gradual and step-by-step improvements of their mental conditions , and it is beyond any doubts that such a principle is at least justified on humanitarian grounds.



In this regard, for the brutalities, cruelties, maltreatments, phsycial abuses, deliberate humiliations, derisions, ridicules, disparagings and other purposeful malicious acts administered, or rather inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-illed ones, the society and community as a whole should, by obligations of humanities, put a stop on such heinous, sinister, outrageous atrocities and monstrosities which have been victimizing the mentally-illed ones over the centuries pervasively, ubiquitously, and yet almost totally concealedly.



So, God help us !

[ntuc]

Brutalities, Cruelties, Maltreatments, Phsycial Abuses, Deliberate Humiliations, Derisions, Ridicules, Disparagings And Other Purposeful Malicious Acts Administered, Or Rather Inflicted Deliberately Upon The Mentally-illed Ones




Well, at the same time,



I would like to add that in terms of all those brutalities, cruelties, maltreatments, phsycial abuses, deliberate humiliations, derisions, ridicules, disparagings and other purposeful malicious acts administered, or rather inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-illed ones especially at the hands of all those ill-trained and yet official paramedics, those are exactly the main obstacles and communication barriers that we as social workers often encounter when we try to reach out to and win the trusts and confidences, especially from the institutionalized mentally-illed people. This is due to the very fact that these mentally-illed people would often tend to 'liken' us to all those persons who always do hurtful things to them and as a result, they simply would choose not to co-operate with us in the very first place.



Whilst the key difference is that, when all those 'official medical personnel' who do hurtful things to these mentally-illed in-patients are actually get paid by the hospital administrations, we as social workers providing only unpaid voluntary counselling services to these mentally-illed people, actually need to 'take care of the mess' as well that are left over by all those inconsiderate, or rather inhumane, if not, barbaric 'uniformed medical personnel' working in such medical institutions. And as a matter of fact, sometimes these 'uniformed medical personnel' would simply 'display' their dirty looks and intense urges of 'bashing us up' too especially when we come to advise these people not to use especially unnecessary physical violences and abuses against the old senile demented mentally-illed in-patients who are simply unable to 'obey their orders'.

[ntuc]

What I wish to say is that Mentally-illed people aren't sub-humans / playthings / livestocks / garbages / craps etc




As a matter of fact, the information that I have included in my prior posts are actually the naked truths, or rather the harsh facts of reality which are ubiquitously pervasive, and such malpractices exist as well in the developed nations, and there's simply no way for these realities to be obliterated.



In such a connection, I have learnt about the similar, almost totally-concealed malpractices from my counterparts serving in the other European, African and U.S and other nations worldwide too.



Next, all these atrocities are actually hardly deniable by any truly conscionable persons, and I strongly believe that you will echo our sentiments.



Lastly, what I wish to say is that the mentally-illed people aren't sub-humans / playthings / livestocks / garbages / craps etc, and as such, they would, at least on humanitarian grounds, rightfully deserve the due respects of human rights and other human-related freedoms and privileges and compassions from the others too, rather than being treated with cruelties, brutalities, physical abuses, sarcasms, callouness and other deliberate, and maybe amusement-inducing harsh treatments especially at the hands of the ones who are officially paid to take good care of their welfares and personal well-beings.



And again, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you all for supporting such a humanitarian cause.

[ntuc]

Brutalities, Cruelties, Maltreatments, Phsycial Abuses, Deliberate Humiliations, Derisions, Ridicules, Disparagings And Other Purposeful Malicious Acts Administered, Or Rather Inflicted Deliberately Upon The Mentally-illed Ones - What Is Really Happening In Reality




Included below is a written message conversation between me and the other respondent from the other forum about the brutalities, cruelties, maltreatments, phsycial abuses, deliberate humiliations, derisions, ridicules, disparagings and other purposeful malicious acts administered, or rather inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-illed ones : -



Messages From The Respondent :


"Here is the naked truth today:
Every inpatient has the right to make a complaint. Facilities are required to post the phone numbers for making such complaints. These complaints are investigated by state agencies unaffiliated with the facilities involved (which gets a bit tricky when you're dealing with state-run facilities, but that's the head-ache for the bigwigs, not the investigators). If investigation determines that the facility has broken Federal regulations in its treatment of residents, then that complaint can trigger a wide-range survey of the facility, investigating all its systems and processes. The facility receives the results of this survey along with a deadline for correcting any identified problems. If it fails to take effective action, it can be fined until it does or in extreme cases lose the right to operate and be closed.
CMS is the Centers for Medicare Services. They set the rules by which these places operate. Here are the Federal regulatory sets under which the facilities operate. Click on the file size number under the "PDF File column" to open the specific set (Don't ask me, that's how CMS set it up):"



My Replies :


I have gone through your post, so can I ask you a question if you don't really mind, actually, are you really that naive ?



And well, if you are just a mere outsider who are not directly involved hands-on in terms of dealing face-to-face with all those in-patients of those medical facilities like us, the unpaid social workers, and the official medical operatives who are paid to work in all those facilities, then reasonably there's no way that I can blame you for being naive.



But for being outspokenly naive in a purely self-opinionted and self-righteous and yet totally gullibly ill-informed way, hey, that has definitely crossed the line.



Investigations about the complaints made by in-patients ? Hey, let me just tell you what actually happen in reality.



For any physical abuses, maltreatments and brutalities, especially the totally unnecessary and widespread ones inflicted on the infirm senile demented in-patients, especially purely for amusement purposes of those formal medical operatives, such 'incidences' will almost always go off the record in the very first place (or rather, into total ignorance / non-existence) with the silent consents, approvals, and absolute co-operations from the other official co-workers, including the psychiatrists and other doctors-in-charge of such facilities who tend to cover up for one another.



Whilst in the case where such physical abuses, maltreatments and brutalities were unfortunately enough to get 'accidentally witnessed' by anyone not belonging to their 'cliques', all the official operatives involved will just, in the very first place, immediately and meticulously make all those fake 'pre-arrangements', synchronized collusions, false witnesess, false reports, false statements, false evidences, and sometimes, as a last resort, subtle 'settlements and compromises' with the authorities concerned to help any of them involved to 'completely cover up and get totally away' with every single inhumane thing they have done against the mentally-illed ones. And such atrocities just get to go on and on and on indefinitely with the powerful unanimous supports from so many 'authoritative people of concern'.



In fact, we as social workers have been asked to either join them in their spree of tortures and brutalities or to just stay totally out of 'their formal business'. And actually we have sort of faced certain subtle intimidations on and off along with such 'invitations / sollcitations'.



Whilst in most of the special-care nursing homes in which old senile people are getting taken care of, well, they quite often would tend have huge estates, monetary assets and other assets inherited to them and yet managed by their legal trustees due to their mental disabilities.



And the problem is that most of such 'legal trustees' would often exploit on their mental disability to 'legally appropriate' the estates, monetary assets and other assets of these pathetic people, substantially for their own sole private use, and quite often with almost complete impunities from legal prosecutions.



In this regard, I would always tend to see lots of such mentally-disabled old people who were 'officially millionaires and billionaires, who are actually compelled to live in poor living conditions, and sometimes, totally below the poverty line, whilst at the same time, they simply do not have even the slightest idea of what has actually happening to them.



While for all those private trustees, well, as long as their mentally-disabled beneficiaries are unable to take any legal actions against them, we as social workers would tend to see them living in fabulous luxuries, owning several huge bungalows and mansions, keep on changing expensive cars like Porshes, Rolls-Royces, Ferraris etc, leading an extravagant lifestyle of, womanisings, merry-makings, shopping-sprees and other forms of expensive splurgings, etc.



And one fundamental question involved is that such an extravagant lifestyle of those official trustees are preposterously, absolutely and completely out of proportion to the formal salaried income they are entitled / actually earn from their trustee fees for their profesional services.



Besides, out of so many official trustees for these old mentally-disabled 'millionaires' , billionaires etc who surprisingly are living in poverties, some of such official trustees appointed / recommended by someone else to run the related trust properties are actually undischarged bankrupts (both illegally and 'unexplainedly legally'). And as long as they keep up with their income tax payments and at the same time no one, especially their mentally-disabled beneficiaries actually come to question anything about their trust assets, they are thus free of harrassments from anyone, as well as enjoying rather complete impunities from prosecutions for their blatant crimes of criminal breaches of trust at the same time.



In such a connection, given that we are merely unofficial and unpaid voluntary social workers of these facilities and special-care nursing homes, whilst given the very fact that those mentally-disabled persons are unable to effectively defend themselves personally, it is thus very difficult for us to seek on their behalf the due justice that they rightfully deserve, especially given the fact that we are simply in no appropriate legal positions to take the particular legal course of actions against them.



And hence, that's exactly the key reason why me and the other social workers would have no other choice but to eventually expose the truths and the related complaints here through the internet to get the due concerns from the intended persons / authorities.



Messages From The Respondent :


"Is the system perfect? No. Still some abuse going on, but not a tenth of what was encountered 30 years ago. The bigger problem is more subtle pressure: doctors not doing their full duty to inform patients of the risks and benefits of treatment, doctors pressuring patients to comply under thinly veiled threats of court-ordered treatments that the doctors actually don't have the power to do, that kind of thing. Harder to enforce since it's more subtle than the flagrant abuses of the past. Still, we're after it when we find it."



My Replies :


You actually believe and are convinced totally with such posturings and all those smokescreens ? Are you actually an idiot ???



Then my moderate and respectful comments are : How pathetically ignorant and naive you are.



And as a matter of fact, I really pity all those related mentally-disabled persons even more in this case, for their welfares and well-beings would have to be further ignored and exploited through the silly and uninformed attitudes and actions of such gullible people like you and the others who actually blindly, ignorantly and credulously support the concealed malpratices, maltreatments, physical abuses of all those related medical operatives who 'pretend to be nice, kind, compassionate, righteous and benign, responsible, dedicated, ethical, committed etc' in front of you all, and perhaps the mentally-disabled ones that they concealedly torture and abuse.



Once again, how saddening and how outrageous.



As to the question of truthfulness of what I have said, maybe instead of the police, formal investigators, doctors, other formal operatives running such medical facilities (which are a part of the clique, and hence would not hesitate at all to lie in the very first place to protect one another), maybe you can just ask around from among the voluntary social workers like us, or better still the very in-patients themselves who are mentally-sound and yet courageous enough to tell you exactly what are the real things that have been going on.

[ntuc]

You-tube Video Clips, Public Polls and General Consensus Worldwide Meant To Gauge Public Opinions On The Very Acts of The Ones 'practising' Brutalities, Physical Abuses, Maltreatments, etc Onto The Mentally-ill Ones




Included below is another written message conversation between me and the other respondents from the other forum about the brutalities, cruelties, maltreatments, phsycial abuses, deliberate humiliations, derisions, ridicules, disparagings and other purposeful malicious acts administered, or rather inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-illed ones : -



Remarks From The Others :


"And that's supposed to mean ... what, exactly?"



My Replies :



"What a stupid question which is actually asked by such an apparently-imbecile like you. And do I really need to answer it ? Ok then, I would just do it for the sake of charity. And you actually appear to be pathetically ignorant to me and, actually to the others anyway as well.



Tell you what, just yesterday I actually chat over the icq with some of the people who have got their medication-induced rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking fully cured through the acupuncture technique that I have imparted to them previously.



And well, for your information, some of them have actually been hospitalised as in-patients before in certain psychiatric wards / hospitals (including the ones in U.S and other European countries). And they all have been physically abused before. Nevertheless, no one would bother at all to even listen to their complaints.



Next, by the time I show some of the posts made by you all to them, well, they just spontaneously react differently to those posts, especially the ones made by you. And whilst they have other mixed reactions as well for your posts, I can just tell from the webcam that they are all agitated and provocated."



Let's just consider one of the excerpts from one of your (Mr.XXXXXX) prior posts :




"How do you think I'd feel? Over the past 20 years, I've seen abuse, reported it, got people fired. I've led treatment teams, investigated abuse among my workers, got people fired for that too. And, I've worked for the State as an investigator, ferreting out these people - and getting them fired and placed on the watch-list. I've seen facilities in so much trouble over shoddy investigations that the head administrator and chief nurse were walked out the door by the owners. I've been part of getting at least one place closed down. In short, over the past couple decades I've worked the system that's responsible for ferreting out the people you've talked about from the bottom, the top, and the sides. I am a right royal pain in the ass for abusers."



My Replies :


So, getting people fired, getting them placed on the watch-list, getting their 'workplaces' closed down etc, and those are actually the ways you deal with the ones committing phsycial abuses, maltreatments and other brutalities against the mentally-ill ones ?



And hey, Mr xxxxxx, let me just ask you one very practical question. So, when you or the others get bashed up, physically abused, maltreated, and treated with brutalities by the other people, just what are those ' physically aggressive acts' called in the first place ?



Well, in case you don't know anything about law, I will tell you that. These are the actually the absolutely actionable crimes of aggravated assaults, grievous bodily harms, and maybe attempted murders etc.



And instead of getting the ones committing such acts to get sent to the police, to get sued by the authority, to stand trial for their crimes, and to be punished by jail sentences, you actually choose to 'punish' them by getting these people fired, getting them placed on the watch-list, getting their 'workplaces' closed down etc ???



Next, if the same things were to happen to you, you will just respond in the same ways too ? Well, we doubt that.



Well, just how preposterously silly and how weirdly outrageous and how funny it is. And this is by far the most ridiculous thing I have ever come across in my real-life.



Nevertheless, if that's actually the reality in such a way that the ones in the related official duties, are 'anyhow' / 'by some insidiously corrupted' means, are 'qualified', 'entitled', 'eligible' etc to 'get' above the law and to 'practice' brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments against the mentally-ill one, totally at their own free will, whilst at the same time, with complete impunities from legal prosecutions, well, that will be truly and really saddening.



And if you feel that you have fully done your part in 'punishing' all those people who inflict physical abuses, maltreatments and other brutalities on the mentally-ill ones, then may I just respectfully say ' You Must Be Kidding'.



Remarks From The Others :


ntuc:"If you're in their shoes, how'd you feel, and how'd you react."
Beyond instrospective and bananced analysis, truth-seeking, I am fairly sure I would want to escape, and also to gain (regain) power, not necessarily in that order.



My Replies :


"Good points, then how about sending all those perpetrators to jail ?
And at the same time, they are committing crimes punishable by jail sentences anyway.
And preferably, get jailed for life."



Remarks From The Others :


"I doubt that there are enough truly honest unselfish people to fill the available incarceration facilities.
So, let's just let the various manifestations of "crazy" try to kill each other, open season, if you please. That would save a lot of public resources.

I suspect that you, too, are picking up on a Cyanidefreak mode. That is, post some semi-convincing contrarian reductions to absurdity.

(Preachy mode-on) I think that evolutionists are about as dishonest as the IDers and creationists.(Preachy mode-off)

I find our TT supporter Angus C. and his (personally invented bag of tricks) treatment of the Arab Israeli situation as less adequate than exiling *both* sides to Antartica to work things out, and maybe never come back. Humanely, maybe the Sahara would be better."



My Replies :


"Well, those points of yours really sound plausible at least to a certain extent.



Nevertheless, given the fact that those are merely some unilateral / one-sided views of yours, I would thus reasonably believe that not every people out there would simply agree with everything you all have said.



And tell you what, just recently, I have just come across some really sophisticated multimedia computer stuffs, especially the ones about the making of the you-tube video clips.



And to my surprise, I actually have never realized before that it's actually so easy and so handy to make all those you-tube video clips.



Next, when I talk with the others about the issues of deliberate brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments etc inflicted upon the mentally-ill ones by the related official medical operatives-in-charge, we sort of share the same idea that 'hey, why not just let some people to film down, of course secretly and concealedly, all those fantastic and interesting scenes of brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments, etc inflited onto the mentally-ill ones and then get all those real-life fascinating scenes included into the you-tube video clips, one after another, and then finally put them onto the internet for the viewing references of the others.



And well, since you all have sort off implied that all those brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments, etc inflited onto the mentally-ill ones are fully and completely justified and warranted on both legal as well as humanitarian grounds, so, why not just include as well a public poll to each of those you-tube videos put onto the internet, so as to get a worldwide consensus that might just fully agree with all your views and opinions on the issues of the so-called 'completely rightful' brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments, etc inflited onto the mentally-ill ones.



So, here's a brief reminder for the ones 'practising' brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments, etc onto the mentally-ill ones :



There maybe other people watching, whilst at the same time, maybe the cameras and videos are filming down all those justified 'heroic' deeds of yours.



And the bottomline is : Your very appearance and the very real-life scenes of you 'practising' brutalities, physical abuses, maltreatments, etc onto the mentally-ill ones, well, there maybe a pretty good chance for them to be aired onto the internet for the watching references, or rather, pleasures of the others.



And when that sort of happens, well, just stay calm and don't get so surprised.



But hey, what's the fear for that given the very fact that 'you all simply have done nothing wrong when brutalizing, physically abusing, maltreating etc all those mentally-ill people, well, at least those maybe are really the 'legally justified acts'.



so, why not just let all those meritorious and heroic acts of yours to get widely known, and you all in turn may eventually just earn applauses, praises, compliments etc from the other people worldwide.



Lastly, it's quite a brilliant idea after all to get what you all have done to get eulogized worldwide by the others, isn't it ?"

[ntuc]

How would you react to the hard evidences that would incriminate the ones deliberately brutalizing, maltreating and physically abusing mentally-ill people ?




As a matter of fact, I also wish that there's a Utopia, or rather, realisitcally a 'better world' out there, but unfortunately, the reality just somehow proves otherwise. And this is actually proven to me over and over again by all those secretly taken photos (mostly filmed down by concealed Cell Phones), other secretly taped video clips, recorded conversations etc that have been brought to my notices by my counterparts working in U.S and other European countries.



Next, I would like to ask you all one question :



If you were the one in possession of all these hard evidences which are all about the physical abuses, maltreatments and brutalities etc inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-ill ones, just how will you react in return ?



1 ) Destroying all those evidences immediately so as to protect the ones you deem to deserve such protections from you ? And in fact, that's exactly what the other co-workers of all those sadistic officers-in-charge would do without any hesitations in the very first place.



2 ) Getting them fired, getting them placed on the watch-list, getting their 'workplaces' closed down etc, and consider all those disciplinary actions as the so-called 'proportionate punishments' that these people would rightfully deserve ? And in fact, these are the things happening now exactly.



3 ) Getting the ones committing such brutal acts to get sent to the police, to get them sued by the authority, to get them stand trial for their crimes of aggravated assaults, grievous bodily harms, and maybe attempted murders etc, and then to get them punished by jail sentences like what I have suggested ?



As a matter of fact, we can't wait to choose the third option. Unfortunately, that would simply take the right time and the right opportunity as well as the right place for such a thing to happen eventually.

[ntuc]

Brutality, Maltreatments, Tortures, Physical Abuses etc Against The Mentally-ill ones - A Follow-up Conversation With The Others




Included below is another written message conversation between me and the other respondents from the other forum about the brutalities, cruelties, maltreatments, phsycial abuses, deliberate humiliations, derisions, ridicules, disparagings and other purposeful malicious acts administered, or rather inflicted deliberately upon the mentally-illed ones : -


Remarks From The Others :



"tl;dr
Every day disabled and mentally ill people are abused in hospitals and care, don't you think we should do something about it?"



My Replies :


As a matter of fact, I fully echo your sentiments.



And, that's exactly the way we intend to deal with such inhumane people : -



"3 ) Getting the ones committing such brutal acts to get sent to the police, to get them sued by the authority, to get them stand trial for their crimes of aggravated assaults, grievous bodily harms, and maybe attempted murders etc, and then to get them punished by jail sentences like what I have suggested ?



As a matter of fact, we can't wait to choose the third option. Unfortunately, that would simply take the right time and the right opportunity as well as the right place for such a thing to happen eventually. "



However, in order for that to happen, we would need the ripe timing and the absolute as well as unanimous supports from most of the people worldwide.



So, we hope that most of you will give us your generous supports for such humanitarian causes of human rights and equal justices for everyone, particularly the mentally-ill ones who are unable to defend themselves at all.

[ntuc]

One More Ugly Truth About Botox Medications



"Group seeks Botox warning following 16 deaths"


"Wrinkle drug reports showed toxin spread inside body after injection"




In terms of Botox medications / injections that I have mentioned before in my prior post, please consider the follow-up below :



"For your further information, Botox Injections are actually medical derivatives from Clostridium botulinum bacterium (which causes botulism) that have been intentionally abused before for the purpose of chemical warfare owing to its intense toxicity.


http://www.answers.com/topic/botox"



and now, please consider the following weblink below :


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22824345...5773?GT1=10815


(Please take note that the weblink mentioned above may be totally banned and closed down anytime subsequently by the related authorities for the purpose of further complete cover-ups of any commercially-unfavourable public information and coverage)



Next, apart from finding the 2 shocking headlines of :


"Group seeks Botox warning following 16 deaths"


"Wrinkle drug reports showed toxin spread inside body after injection"



the main contents of this report have just "gone missing" with the explanation :



" The page you are seeking has expired and is no longer available at msnbc.com."



Well, apparently the information carried by that news / report was "profitably undesirable / unfavourable / damaging" to the popular images of the Botox medications, and hence, they are deleted and suppressed by the authorities.



Now, let's consider the following naked truth : -



"Governmental monopoly", or rather tenacious grips on the health care industries



So, can anyone just tell me that how can such potentially deadly Botox medications and other possibly the other hazardous drugs be continually and unimpededly approved by the government-run Food And Drugs Administration (FDA), and then be widespreadly and pervasisvely promoted and marketed to the general public, and at the same time, with the actual medical facts of the deadly contents of such medications to be intentionally and insidiously withhheld from their buyers and consumers ?




And has the government been playing fair by doing this way ?




And the realistic goals of money-seeking and profit-maximisation at the expense of the health cares and human lives of the users of such deadly products / medications would actually make such a "policies" fully justified and warranted" ?

[ntuc]

Other Ugly Truths About Cost-cutting Policy of Public Psychiatric Medical Facility




Well, based on my experiences and other co-workers of mine of working as part / full-time social workers in the public psychiatric medical facilities, we would wish to reveal the following ugly truths about such medical facilities to the intended readers : -



A ) During the time when anyone was taken as an in-patient in such a medical facility, he / she will be forced to take whatever outdated antipsychotic medications which are full of almost immediately-manifesting disastrous side effects by all those salaried medical operatives and paramedics involved.



Next, each time such in-patients face such a scenario, they would simply have no rights at all to make any comments or complaints about it (such as a change for the better and more advanced medications with far lesser side effects etc).



And based on what I have observed, whenever any patients just try to make even the most polite and gentle comment about that, they would be treated really harshly in return, and sometimes just getting slapped and physically bashed up.



So, can you even see any human rights in such a scenario ?



B) No one would actually care about what will or has become of these in-patients eventually, apart from making them the objects of total sarcastic derisions for the sheer amusements of those paid medical operatives and paramedics of those medical facilities.



Besides, even when such disastrous side effects of the related medications have manifested onto and just keep getting worse and worse day after day for the related patients taking them, none of the paid medical operatives and paramedics-in-charge of such medical facilities would actually be bothered at all with anything going on to them.



On the contrary, under such scenarios, such salaried operatives would just ridicule them even more, making all such in-patients suffer even more physical and emotional pains.



And no one actually would care about their inner feelings.



C) whilst the worst part of it is that, instead of taking the corrective procedures and measures to redress the situations and to mitigate the pains and sufferings of such in-patients, such paid medical personnel would still insist such victims suffering from the disastrous side effects of the related outdated medications to continue to take them indefinitely, regardless of the further aggravated physical harms that may very welll inflict subseuqently and continually upon them.



In short, no change for the better and more advanced medications with similar curative benefits but far lesser disastrous side effects will be given to these in-patients regardless of any physical and emotional pains that they have been going through.



And this is done purely to save medical and medicine maintenance costs at the expenses of the health cares, well-beings, welfares and the very lives of these pitiful in-patients.



D) In such a connection, the worst of the worsts is that, those medical personnel doing such a practice of continually feeding such patients with the similar outdated medications, well, they actually and simply have the brazen audacity to claim that : "This is done totally out of the kind intention of maintaining and improving the quality of life of our patients" .



Well, as a matter of fact, in terms all those salaried medical personnel, medical operatives and paramedics, they just simply strike us as hypocritically callous, cruel and histrionically sinister, treacherous and conscienceless.



Lastly, we feel that these people should just go to hell and get burnt forever in inferno and get damned to perdition in hell immediately upon their deaths.

[ntuc]

Why Are The Ones Deliberately Brutalizing, Physically Abusing Maltreating etc The Mentally-ill Ones Never Get Legally Prosecuted - The Other Ugly Truths




As social workers working in the miscellaneous psychiatric medical facilities, these are a part of the ugly truths that we have witnessed and experienced on our very own so far, and hence, please give us your generous supports to improve things for the better for the sake of humanitarian causes and a better future as well as a better tomorrow for the mentally-ill ones.



In terms of the deliberate brutalities, cruelties, tortures, maltreatments, miscellaneous physical abuses, and other subtle, insidious forms of inequities and unfairness etc inflicted purposefully onto the mentally-ill ones kept in the mental hospitals, wards, etc, well, as a matter of fact, those medical operatives and paramedics in fact do enjoy tremendous automatic cover-ups for their own enjoyable perverted acts of sadisms.



Whilst the authorities, especially the doctors-in-charge, police, inspectors, etc, well, as a matter of fact, they do largely and more than willingly to almost automatically and spontanesouly connive any of their deliberate acts of brutalities, cruelties, tortures, maltreatments, miscellaneous physical abuses inflicted onto the mentally-ill ones.



Besides, such monstrosities are even excused and condoned totally even when these acts of cruelties are purposely done for the sheer amusements of all those medical operatives, paramedics etc, or rather, "practised" for the sheer and only purpose of gratifying their perverted sadistic whims and urges for tortures.



In such a connection, the underlying "justification" for such "acts of discretion" "exercised" by all those authorities is simply : "Well, mentally-ill people are hardly the real human beings at all, and hence they are simply not entitled to any legal human rights under the constitution.".



Or to put it bluntly, to these authorities and law enforcers, mentally-ill people are as good as livestocks and animals rightfully to get butchered and slaughtered. And hence, such deliberate acts of tortures, physical abuses, maltreatments, brutalities etc "practised" onto the mentally-ill ones, well, they would simply mean nothing inhumane at all to all those authorities and law enforcers (the police, inspectors etc).



Hence, if anyone were to ask all those authorities and law enforcers (the police, inspectors etc) to bring all those people "practising" the deliberate acts of tortures, physical abuses, maltreatments, brutalities etc "practised" onto the mentally-ill ones to justices, they most likely would just respond to you by saying " Hey, you must be kidding me".



This may just sound to be harshly cruel, but unfortunately, that's also the harsh reality of life that the most governments and other authorities are clinging to, legalizing and "practicing" in reality.



So, are we really going to just remain silent on these unfair issues that concern miscellaneous blatant violations of human rights and total disregards for human lives inflicted onto the ones who would otherwise rightfully and desperately deserve them ?



Lastly, please keep this one particular important thing in mind : Mentally-ill people are the ones susceptible to miscellaneous abuses and exploitation given the very fact that they are unable to protect and defend themselves at all.



So, we would like to make an earnest and sincere appeal to you all to uphold the human rights and the humanitarian principles that these people would otherwise definitely and absolutely deserve as human beings. Thank you.

[ntuc]

Additional Information From Q & A sessions about Blepharospasm / Hemifacial Spasms




Included below are some Q & A sessions between me and another person seeking helps from me for the chronic Blepharospasm and Hemifacial Spasm disorders of her mother living in India. And I hope that the extra information included in the Q & A webpage below will turn out to be useful to you. Thank you.



Original Questions - First Session :


Dear sir,

I'm residing in india->tamil nadu->madurai city.
My mother has been suffering HFS for around 9 years.she has the twitching in the right eye and the right corner of her mouth also twitches along and the right side has turned dark.

she has been taking medicines for all these years.Now she has used Botox injections for three times within a span of 3 months interval.some relief was found in the first two injections and the third was not satisfactory.

surgical methods are not 100% guaranteed and some websites say the patients lose hearing or eyesight.

Then i tried some acupunture treatments and my mom feels better.
so i surfed the web that can there be a cure by acupuncture and found your website and its information were helpful. now i have some hope in recovering my mom.

now i would like to clarify certain doubts :
1.is the backside of the right hand palm the only point to treat or any other points to include.if any please mention it with or without a diagram.

2.where in the world can i have the best acupuncture treatment.if in india it would be more easier for frequent visits.

3.is there any dietory restrictions that can control the twitching.

4.can there be 100% cure by acupunture method.

5.is there any home remedies to control twitching.

the answers to the questions will give us a right move towards the cure.
please reply back at this site as early as possible

Thank You.



My Reply :


Well, first of all, when you have mentioned, HFS, I belive that you are actually referring to Hemifacial Spasms.



For your information, what you have described to me are also the most of the things that I have gone through before 5 years back when I was having the medication / Tardive Dyskinesia-induced Hemifacial Spasm - especially the eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking for countless times in a split second when it got worst (and at the same time, my mouth was badly twisted apart from having the twitchings). Besides, among the numerous others who have sought helps from me to deal with their similar eye-related disorders, well, most of the Hemifacial Spasms disorders are actually caused by the neurological and neuromuscular side effects of certain medications.



Well, I have tried Botox as temporary reliefs (3- 6 months' period each) for each therapy session) for my chronic rapid non-stop eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking. However, it's actually not a conclusive solution to the related disorders.



Whilst at the same time, I would also like to inform you and the others that the Botox medications are actually composed mainly of Botulinum toxin which are actually medical derivatives from Clostridium botulinum bacterium (which causes botulism) that have been intentionally abused before for the purpose of chemical warfare owing to its intense toxicity.


Botox: Definition from Answers.com


Consumer Group Approaches FDA Over Botox Deaths - wcbstv.com


Botox Side Effects: Aspiration pneumonia, partial paralysis, Death.



In respect of your inquiries, I would gladly like to give you the following details for your further references and clarifications :



Excerpt From The Original Question :


1) Is the backside of the right hand palm the only point to treat or any other points to include.if any please mention it with or without a diagram ?



My Answer :


As to this question, please refer to the diagram below :






Besides, there are also other acupuncture points that are related as well as cures for such eye-related problems. However, most of them are actually situated at the vulnerable parts around one's eyes. And hence, my opinion is that those acupuncture points wouldn't not be that suitable for the purpose of self-administered treatments.



Apart from that, as far as Hemifacial Spasms disorder is concern (which affects the mouths and other parts of one's face etc), by applying blunt-pointed-object-mild-pressings onto that "He Gu" acupuncture point, which is located on the wrist of one's hands (both left and right), it would actually generate a reflexology stimulus around one's entire face (rather than the eyes alone). As such, I believe that it is thus a safe and practical acupuncture point for Hemifacial Spasm disorders, especially the chronic uncontrollable non-stop eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking. And in particular, for self-administered treatments.



Excerpt From The Original Question :


2) How many days of acupuncture treatment needed ?



My Answer :


Well, that would depend on how serious is the Hemifacial Spasm disorders of your mother, especially the rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking problems, as well as how long she has suffered from it right from the very beginning. As such, please refer to the detailed descriptions of the self-administered needleless free-of-charge acupuncture / technique / cure for non-stop persistent rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking as included below : -


A New Version For The Self-administered Needleless Free-Of-Charge Acupuncture Cure For Non-stop Persistent Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking at Under-Eye Bags & Dark Circles


Honestly speaking, I obtained tremendous reliefs on the very next day after the acupuncture treatment (my abnormal eyelid-twitchings / eye-blinkings stopped completely). Whilst for the far less serious cases (non-Tardive Dyskinesia cases), most of them would just experience the effects within hours after applying that acupuncture technique. Whilst for the really and extremely serious ones, (the ones who have been suffering really chronically from such disorders for many years, eg. nine years - please refer to the original question above) , it would usually take 5 - 10 days for them to obtain the desired reliefs from that acupuncture technique in the very first place, and then, one would need to continue applying that acupuncture technique consistently and daily (for weeks / a few months' time) in order to get fully-cured once-and-for-all in the end..



Excerpt From The Original Question :


3) Where in the world can i have the best acupuncture treatment.if in india it would be more easier for frequent visits ?



My Answer :


As a matter of fact, for some reasons my skins are extremely sensitive to the conventional prolonged needle-piercing therapy of acupuncture. And since that therapy is not that suitable for me, the acupuncturist attending to me is kind enough to impart to me a simple needleless acupuncture method (without using needles at all) to enable me to deal with my Hemifacial spasms / rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking problems.


And well, since the acupuncture technique can be praciticed on one's own, it's thus a free-of-charge cure. So, given that I'm a part-time social worker working for the health cares of others, i thus feel that it's a part of my vocations to recommend this self-administered needleless acupuncture technique to the ones who need it.


As such, please refer to the story behind the suggested self-administered acupuncture technique for abnormally rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking described above


The Story Behind The Suggested Self-administered Acupuncture Technique For Abnormally Rapid Eyelid-twitching / Eye-blinking Described Above at Under-Eye Bags & Dark Circles


Besides, there are in fact many people all around the world seeking helps from me through emails ever since the beginning of 2008 for their chronic eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking problems, especially the medication-induced ones. Frankly speaking, for those areas like the ones in middle-east, and unfortunately India and the countries surrounding it, there are hardly any acupuncture clinics / treatments available (based on what they have told me). And so, I hope that the self-administered acupuncture technique will be helpful to your mother in totally solving her problems once and for all, just like the numerous others who have totally recovered once-and-for-all from such chronic disorders.

[ntuc]

Additional Information From Q & A sessions about Blepharospasm / Hemifacial Spasms - Continued




Excerpt From The Original Question :


4) Is there any diet restrictions that can control the twitching ?



My Answer :


Well, there are certainly causes that lead to such muscle twitchings. They could be due to the neurological / neuromuscular side effects of certain medications, excessive caffeine intakes, overstraining of the eyes etc. Naturally, it would be in the best interest of the ones suffering from such disorders to make a clean break with the causes leading to such disorders. However, in the case of medication / Tardive Dyskinesia-induced chronic eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking, a switch to the better and more advanced medications with far lesser Tardive Dyskinesia / Hemifacial Spasms side effects would be quite an option (given that one may still need the related medications to deal with the other related disorders, and in my case, I switch from Risperdal to Seroquel after getting completely cured from the Hemifacial Spasm / chronic rapid non-stop eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking disorders).



Excerpt From The Original Question :


5) Can there be 100% cure by acupunture method ?



My Answer :


Actually, in the case of me and the numerous others who get totally cured once-and-for-all for those disorders through the self-administered acupuncture technique, we have taken MRI, CT-Scannings and other related medical examinations before. And these medical examinations actually show nothing abnormal at all.


And in fact, for the medication / Tardive-dyskinesia induced hemifacial spasms / rapid eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking, currently there are no medical examinations that would be able to conclusively and definitely detect and diagnose the interferrences of medications onto the synaptic activities of the neurotransmitter chemicals / neurons that are widely distributed in our miscellaneous bodily nervous systems to the point of muscle spasm / neuromuscular disorders .


So, my comment is that, if your mother's medical scenario actually falls into the category that I have described above, well, then I believe that there is quite a good chance that she will get fully recovered once and for all from her disorders through applying that suggested self-administered, free-of-charge, needlleless acupuncture technique consistently and daily.



Excerpt From The Original Question :


6) Is there any home remedies to control twitching ?



My Answer :


Well, that is actually not to my knowledge.


Whilst the logic behind the self-administered needleless acupuncture cure is such that, well, since the related muscle-twitchings are caused by certain "contaminating agents", such as the undesirable remnants of certain medications that antagonize the normal functionings of the neurotransmitter chemicals (especially dopamine which is responsible for all the human body physical movements), then, getting rid of them from the related nerves around the twitching muscles (eyes / facial muscles) through the acupuncture treatment is thus the most direct and effective way of dealing with such neuromuscular / muscle-twitching disorders and to stop the related muscle twitchings.





Original Questions - Second Session :


First of all i would like to thank you for your answers.I found your problem being more severe than my mom and really glad that you are fully recovered.

The information was very useful.

some of the doubts my dad wants to clarify :

1.As you had twitching a countless times in a split second,its more serious than my mothers case,how many days or months did it take to recover completely.This would help me to calculate the recovering time for my mom.

2.Even after cure are you still continuing the acupuncture treatment these days.

Thank you.



My Reply :


Thanks for the feedbacks.


As such, I hope that my replies as follows will clear your doubts about the questions you have asked.



Excerpt From The Original Question :


1) As you had twitching a countless times in a split second,its more serious than my mothers case,how many days or months did it take to recover completely ?



My Answer :


Well, actually I suffered from such chronic rapid uncontrollable eyelid-twitching / eye-blinking and other Hemifacial Spasms symptoms (from the Tardive Dyskinesia side effects of certain medications) for about more than one year. And eventually when I was instructed with that self-administered needleless acupuncture technique as a cure for all these neurological / neuromuscular disorders, it actually took me about 2 months' time exercising that acupuncture technique consistently and daily (in my case, 2 continuous hours / day) to enable me to get totally cured once-and-for-all in the end.


Remark From The Original Person - Please refer to the Original Question Above :



This would help me to calculate the recovering time for my mom


My Reply :


Honestly speaking, out of so many people seeking helps from me for their similar related disorders of different degrees of severities , well, for the mild and short-term cases (less than 6 months), some of them would totally recover once-and-for-all within weeks. Whilst for the really serious ones, especially those suffering from the like-disorders for many years (eg.nine years as mentioned in the paragraph above), it would certainly take about a few months' time applying that acupuncture technique consistently and daily for a final, complete and once-and-for-all recovery to be achieved in the end.


All in all, that would actually depend on the healing progress of the individual people suffering from such disorders. In this regard, based on my personal experience as well as the feedbacks I have received from the ones seeking helps from me, it's such that once that self-administered needleless acupuncture technique is proven to be effective for them in the very first place, exercising them subsequently and consistently would then just serve the next-steps and the other purposes of reducing the muscle twitchings progressively (in terms of the really serious cases), to just prevent the related muscle-twitchings from coming back after the curative effects have taken place for the very first time (just like what me and some othes have experieced), and then, to get such disorders gradually and totally cured (in a realistic and practical way - please refer to my preceding post above) once and for all in the end.



Excerpt From The Original Question :


2) Even after cure are you still continuing the acupuncture treatment these days ?



My Answer :


For your information, for me and the numerous others who have been suffering from the similar disorders, we would not need to exercise that acupuncture technique anymore once we are totally cured once and for all from them.


As for my case, I no longer need to exercise that acupuncture technique anymore after I have achieved full and once-and-for-all recovery for the disorders ever since 5 years back. And well, the reasoning behind this is that, there is no relapse at all of such disorders at all ever since I get totally cured once and for all, and given that my pair of eyes are just as normal and healthy as and to any other people (I mean for anyone I meet), I simply need not do anything for those disorders / symptoms that have disappeared completely.


Lastly, I would wish a speedy and full recovery for your mother's like-disorders and good luck.

[ntuc]

Additional Information About Modern And Outdated Medications For Mental Disorders



Besides, I would like to add that as far as the harmful and nearly unavoidable muscle spasms (involuntary restless bodily / muscular movements such as rapid purposeless uncontrollable eye-blinking / eyelid-twitching, Hemifacial Spasms, Tardive Dyskinesia, Dystonia etc) and other neurological disorders arising from the harmful neuromuscular / neurological / neuro-degenerative side effects of certain medications are concerned, there have been in fact a great variety of other far better medications with greater curative effects and far lesser harmful side effects getting invented from time to time nowadays by the modern medical science in order to overcome this problem.



Nevertheless, the usual current practice of most medical practitioners nowadays are such that they would prefer to prescribe and dispense the inferior and outdated medications to their patients owing to the far lower costs of these medications, and hence the health cares of the patients are getting unfairly exploited and jeopardized in such a scenario.



For an instance, the medication called chlorpromazine is actually one of the examples of the longly outdated first-generation antipsychotic medications that has long been superseded by the other far better second and third-generation antipsychotics ever since decades ago. However, such inferior and outdated medications are still the commonly preferred choices for prescriptions and dispensing of most medical practitioners nowadays.



Examples of First-generation antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia :


First-generation antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia



In such a connection, please refer to the website as follows for some overviews of all these first, second and third-generation antipsychotics.


Antipsychotic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia