Mental Illness Pt. 2 - Doped Up and Kicked Out: The 60-Day Mental Health Shuffle

The pharmaceutical industry makes billions while mental health patients suffer through an ineffective revolving door system of short-term care. When examining how mental health institutions operate, a disturbing pattern emerges—patients cycle through 60-day stays where they're heavily medicated, then released back into society regardless of their ability to function independently.

Diving into the medications routinely administered, we uncover the shocking side effects behind commonly prescribed antipsychotics like Quetiapine (Seroquel). While pharmaceutical giants like AstraZeneca report market capitalizations exceeding $200 billion, patients face risks including irreversible movement disorders, heart rhythm abnormalities, and even increased mortality rates. The most disturbing revelation? Many of these medications mask symptoms temporarily without addressing underlying conditions—essentially tranquilizing patients until their insurance-covered stay expires.

What if we reimagined mental health care entirely? I propose community-based facilities designed specifically for those deemed unfit to function in mainstream society—places offering varying levels of supervision, medical care, social support, and as much independence as safely possible. Rather than treating humans with serious mental illness as disposable or as profit centers, we could create environments where they receive continuous, compassionate care while researchers work to better understand and address root causes of different mental health conditions. The rising rates of mental illness diagnoses demand a new approach—one centered on human dignity rather than pharmaceutical profits or administrative convenience. It's time to transform how we support our most vulnerable citizens and prevent the tragedies that occur when serious mental illness goes untreated.

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Chapters

• 0:30 Mental Illness Episode Recap
• 1:59 Top Five Psychiatric Medications
• 4:49 AstraZeneca: Following the Money
• 9:50 Community-Based Treatment Solution Proposal
• 16:01 Dangerous Side Effects of Quetiapine
• 26:45 Call for Better Mental Healthcare

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Welcome back everyone. Yes, indeedy, I know I promised you part two of the mental illness episode and tonight we're going to get at it. I want to go over some things here in relation to this mental illness as a recap. We spoke on the RD revolving door of mentally ill patients and we spoke about the different levels of mental illness. I mentioned that I want to get down to the heart of things as to what's going on, because why would you take someone in to a mental institution that obviously has some form of mental illness which cannot be cured, and the length of stay in the mental institution is up to 60 days, unless you get some form of a court order or something to extend the stay of this mentally ill patient? So where are you going with this? Who's benefiting and is there another option? Okay, so let's say top five medications used in mental institutions. This is what I've come up with Anti-psychotics, okay.

Speaker 1: 2:19

Anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants. Now, you know the funny thing about these medications, and they're pretty common. About these medications and they're pretty common, it sounds to me a lot of something you would give to someone to hush them up, keep them quiet, have them relax and just be still which is great, you know, for a mental institution while you collect the money on his treatment, while you collect the money on his treatment, medical blood and blood work and x-rays, whatever you want to do to this mentally ill patient who, to me now, is beginning to seem like some form of a guinea pig or, you know, a porn in the chess game. You know what I mean. So, of these medications, let's see. Let's take the antipsychotic medication. A common example of this would be cutipine or cutipine. Okay, so let's do a little research on cutipine or Cutipine. Okay, so let's do a little research on a Cutipine and let's see what we come up with. Cutipine Okay, who is the manufacturer of this drug?

Speaker 1: 4:01

This will pretty much tell us who is making the money behind this drug. Okay, let's see what I have here, and it seems as though. Let me do one more search here. Give me a second, guys. Let me do one more search here and see if I have the right name, because I don't want to call somebody incorrectly.

Speaker 1: 4:47

Let's see here, because we want to you know as close as we can to the facts here, who manufactures, okay, okay, okay, who manufactures Cutipine In the US. It says here, and this is based on. Let's see which website is giving us this data here, is giving us this data? Here? It's actually coming from the manufacturer themselves, which is AstraZeneca. So AstraZeneca in the US is the company that manufactures this. There's also other companies throughout the world Canada and a few other places that also manufactures this curatiopine, and AstraZeneca has the manufacturing and commercial rights for this medication, which is also called Syracuse, okay, syracuse XR. While Astrogenica initially manufactured the drug, they sold the rights to a company called Sheplay Farm. Sheplay Farm is the current manufacturer of this drug and that's in the United States.

Speaker 1: 6:51

Okay, so let's just take a look here and see what is the net worth of a company like AstraZeneca, or go here and this type in see I don't know that wife, maybe that worth of astrogenica AstraZeneca net worth or market capitalization is approximately 207.11 billion US dollars as of May 2025. Wow, it is the second week of May. This is like current as current can be. This figure reflects the total market value of the company's outstanding shares. Wow, wow, wow. I mean you got to look into some of this, guys, the numbers it has breakdowns for everything total assets, key financial metrics, historical market cap, current market cap, market capitalization, aye, aye, aye, and we're looking at the current market cap is $207.11 billion. This is a lot of money. Now we're not saying that all of this is comes from this single drug, but this is one of the companies that is capitalizing and making a lot of money or for doping up people who basically have no cure. So okay, they'd say.

Speaker 1: 9:22

A professor once told me don't present a problem without presenting a solution. Okay, so what do I see as a solution to this issue? I don't know. But how about? I mean this doesn't necessarily mean it's correct. I'm just throwing something out there, guys.

Speaker 1: 9:40

How about we take a facility, a large community based facility? Let's say, like I don't know, we had a Creedmoor the formal grounds, I don't even know if Creedmoor is still in operation, but let's say a place like Creedmoor the formal grounds, I don't even know if Creedmoor is still in operation, but let's say a place like Creedmoor which had a big property, had a lot of property, and we turned it into a community for mentally ill people. This community will consist of doctors, the patients, obviously maybe a way to. These patients can go around and purchase certain items If they need help. They could have some form of assistance, a chaperone or something to take them shopping, to get them things that they can use or need if they were unable to do it themselves.

Speaker 1: 10:46

This facility would house people that were actually declared unfit to function in society and this way they could live as close as possible to a normal life as close as we can get them to a normal life and have immediate assistance right there for them. We can have security you can have. Obviously there wouldn't be a jail unless one of them committed a crime while in the community that was so heinous that maybe you would have a tighter form of environment for them where they would not be able to commit a crime. So within the facility itself it could have. Where they would not be able to commit a crime, so within the facility itself it could have levels. So depending on how the person progresses or digresses, if at all, will determine what level and what amount of freedom they can have, rather than just taking these people who we know have a mental illness and pay no mind to the level or how, the seriousness of their mental illness, and just say you know what, after 60 days we have to let them go and put them back on the street.

Speaker 1: 12:13

And then you wonder why all of a sudden, the newspapers and the news and the media is coming up with man Rams car into 30 people and it shows that he has a history of a mental illness. He shouldn't have never been back on the street. He needs supervision. It's not the fault of his own because he's mentally ill. It's not his fault. If we have medical professionals that have honestly I use the word honestly seriously diagnose this individual as really seriously having a mental illness, then he should not be on the street and in this facility that I'm proposing they could have visiting his family could come visit him. There could be security there. There's so much more you can do with this, which is better than putting these guys on the street guys or gals on the street and allowing them to commit more crimes, or pushing people in front of a train and taking other people's lives or whatever the case might be.

Speaker 1: 13:42

This RD thing is just not getting it and as much as they try to justify that it's working, it is not working. Working, it is not working, especially when you do some research and you find out that the amount of people that are being diagnosed with some form of mental illness is growing and not decreasing. So once we've had this community in place now, our phase two would be is to find out why, how and where this mental illness is coming from and see if there is a way to curb it before it takes into full effect. Some people might feel that you're born with it. Some people say that it's due to trauma. Some people might classify it as a mental illness that progresses over time. There's different forms and different root causes of a mental illness, and if there is a way that we can control some forms of mental illness, that itself in itself could possibly save people's lives.

Speaker 1: 15:26

And that's my main concern here. My main concern is to be able to help people, be able to help people that are mentally ill and not being abused and taken advantage of and used as some form of a porn or rat in a cage or whatever you might want to call it. Treat it like human beings and, at the same time, save lives. I mean, I don't have no problem with these big manufacturers making money off of drugs, because let me tell you something if I get a headache, sometimes I take an Advil or a Leaf.

Speaker 1: 16:14

Get a headache, sometimes I take an Advil or a leaf, I take a painkiller. If it works, it works. However, a lot of times it masks the pain and a lot of times it may mask the pain to the point where the pain itself is actually going away, and once the medication is completed and finished completed and finished I'm good again. So don't get me wrong, I am not against manufacturers of medication, but I am against manufacturers of medication that is not doing what it should be doing. Or Well, I shouldn't say not doing what it should be doing, because if you're giving someone a medication, so they are not fixing the problem. Now, when I take a painkiller, it might mask the problem and it might mask it long enough until the problem has subsided and my headache is no longer there, which is great for me. There's medications that I I get when I had a surgery and I didn't feel the pain. That medication worked.

Speaker 1: 18:02

But if you give someone a medication or some form of medication, someone a medication or some form of medication and it's just repeated every six hours just to keep them in a state of mind for 60 days, and when you let them back on the street they're back at their normal mental illness state, then I don't think that medication is good and I don't think it should be used. I think in that aspect, we need some other form of treatment. And not to mention, let's take a look at what some of the side effects of some of these medications are. Okay, this is what you know. When I get my medication, I don't think it tells you what the side effects are. You know, the doctor just says take one or two of these a day for three days or five days, or a week or a month, or whatever the case might be. But unless you take the time out to do some research and find out what the side effects are, some medications may not tell you what the side effects are.

Speaker 1: 19:21

Cutipapine, commonly known by the brand name Syracuse I think I'm pronouncing that correctly S-E-R-O-Q-U-E-L or Syracuse or whatever, is a typical antipsychotic medication used to treat various mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar bipolar disorder and major depressive disorders. Like all medications, q type of pain can cause side effects, some of which can be serious. Whoa, so let's bypass the common side effects, which I'm to breeze through it right quick Dizziness, lightheaded saliva reduces saliva production, dry mouth, yada, yada, yada. You may experience increased appetite. Okay, now let's get to the more serious side effects, which is what we're interested in Side effects, which is what we're interested in Serious side effects.

Speaker 1: 20:33

Tardive Dyskynia, better known as TD. This is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary movement, especially of the face, tongue or jaw. I've seen people with something like that. Okay, td can be irreversible in some cases. Not good, not good. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, also known as NMS. This is a rare but potentially fatal condition that can cause muscle stiffness, fever, sweating and changes in mental status. Wow, here's the next one Increased risk of death in elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis.

Speaker 1: 21:40

Quitopapine carries a box warning from the FDA about an increased risk of death in elderly individuals with dementia who take antipsychotic medications. Wait a minute now. Death. Did this thing just say death, death. And this is medication is used for depression, but also anxiety disorder. Wait a minute. So I'm going to use oh wait, hold on, let me get that right here here.

Speaker 1: 22:39

Okay, this medication is used to manage psychosis, a condition where individuals may lose touch with reality and experience hallucinations or delusions. Okay, so let me see On the left hand, we have hallucinations, out of touch with reality and delusions, and on the right side, we have side effects, serious side effects as death. Come on, you got to be kidding me? Irreversible TD, in some cases, movement of the face, tongue or jaw Really Irreversible? Are we understanding this? Irreversible? Are we understanding this? Irreversible, wow. Suicidal thoughts and behavior so if it don't kill you, it makes you want to kill yourself, really, really. And some individuals, especially young adults, q-typopine may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior.

Speaker 1: 24:00

Changes in heart rhythm this drug can cause changes in heart rhythm, including QT prolonged prolongation, which can be serious Prolongation. Qt prolongation, which can be serious Seizures. This drug can lower the seizure threshold and may increase the risk of seizures in some individuals. Low white blood cell count Isn't that the cell blood count that fights off colds? And COVID-19 and different types of infections in the body can decrease white blood cell counts, which can increase the risk. Yeah, it is can increase the risk of infection.

Speaker 1: 25:04

Okay, so what if you just stop using this thing after the mental institutions have doped you up with it? Let's see, stopping Q-type of pain abruptly can lead to withdrawal symptoms, including insomnia, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and irritability. Well, you know what? Out of all things, I will take the withdrawal before I continue on with this medication. Knowing the serious side effects it has. I'll take my chances with the withdrawal if a mental institution has doped me up with this Q-type of pain. So, folks, this is just a quick synopsis of what's going on. I mean, there's a lot of medications out here that they give you and I think we really need to dig deep into what's going on, what we're being doped up with, what our family members are being doped up with.

Speaker 1: 26:17

And, as a last recount, I'm going to go over once again the top five medications used in mental institutions antipsychotics used in mental institutions. Antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants. Now, all of these sound fairly harmless, but you really need to check out the side effects on this medication, because they don't. When you watch the television and you hear about these medications on TV, they go through the side effects so fast that you have no idea what they just said. Let's be alert. Stay on board. Thank you for tuning in Once again. This is your pod host, og GOAT, and we've done it again. We're out.