tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post1501417957845342638..comments2023-09-28T15:35:46.255+01:00Comments on <center>FIDDAMAN BLOG</center>: Pills, Patients and Profits - W5 Investigates [CANADA]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-66288827772341449272010-09-27T14:24:39.137+01:002010-09-27T14:24:39.137+01:00Had a conversation with the CFO of the largest dru...Had a conversation with the CFO of the largest drug company in the world who told me in 2003 that it cost $600 million to develop a drug. It's seems to me that the Senior Financial Officer of a company certainly would have known what he was talking about when it came to the cost of developing a drug. I think it's important that people understand from a cost perspective how these companies are raping the public and driving the cost of health care through the roof. Lithium cost $40 for a month supply up until I finally got off of it in 2002. On the other hand Abilify which was prescribed for me when I was hospitalized in 2004 on the anniversary date of the tragic and untimely death of my mother who died when I was sixteen cost $500.00 for a moth supply. I actually suffer from PTSD and was blessed by having a very progressive psychiatrist back in 1982 who made this diagnosis. Problem was I was given shock treatments at this time due to the onset of a manic episode that took place due to being put on Elivil for the second time which wiped out the memory I needed back then to understand the role my mothers death played during my childbearing when I experienced Postpartum Depression and Psychosis. This had lead me to the conclusion that psychiatry has been revictimizing those who have suffered childhood and life traumas as being mentally ill when in fact the driving reason for the symptoms of depression, psychosis, hearing of voices and dissociation are all trauma based. I am most disturbed that this has been a well known fact and a topic of discussion by the fathers of psychiatry and psychology. It appears that I ended up with a brilliant psychiatry who actually paid attention to what he was reading. The unfortunate piece of my story is that due to my ex husband insurance being canceled I had to leave this psychiatrist shortly after I got out of the hospital in 1982 which prevented me from ever understanding why I was diagnosed with PTSD. <br /><br />I changed the direction of my whole life because of the fear I had of the power psychiatry had over people but did not realize that until I went back in 2004 and all the traumatic memories I had came flooding back. I actually have never been hospitalized because I was out of control but instead because I was in a state higher thinking and spiritual awakening. I discovered that being put in the hospital had been triggering the trauma I experienced the fist time I was hospitalized at 24 due to the manic side effects of Elivil which began my 25 years journey in a mental health system I never belonged in.<br /><br />All I can say is there is a saying that payback is a bitch. My issues are not with psychiatrist in general because I was very fortunate to have a few very caring and understanding psychiatrist along the way. My issue is with the American Drug Cartel for lying to psychiatrist about the drugs that have lead to the robbing of millions of people lives. <br /><br />Stay tuned because I am on a mission.Sheila Sullivanhttp://www.postpartumawareness.comnoreply@blogger.com