Klarinet Archive - Posting 000481.txt from 2004/08

From: "Mark H. Weinstein" <mark.weinstein@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Seeking Inderal users
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:20:10 -0400

It is very unlikely that Inderal when use properly causes a psyciatric
disorder. Mark. H. Weinstein,M.D.

Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> At 03:15 PM 8/15/2004, you wrote:
>
> >Dear Friends:
> >
> >I'm writing a newspaper story on beta blockers and would like to speak to
> >muscians who have used it. Please email me at crimsons@-----.com if you
> >are interested.
> >
> >BTW, I am a professional musician who's used Inderal, though now very
> >infrequently, since the mid-80s.
> >
> >Yours,
> >Blair Tindall
>
> This must be public. I have written about this in the past, on this list,
> and shall do so again as the occasion warrants.
>
> Beta blockers can be drugs from hell. Yes, musicians use them as
> calmatives. I took them for high blood pressure starting in November 1994,
> terminating in May or June 1995. Why did I terminate? Okay, what you saw
> from me last week was the result of intense stress. But it was NOTHING
> compared to what I was like early in 1995. I did not know I was living
> with bipolar disorder or that it was inhabiting me. That was diagnosed
> only some years later. The beta blockers magnified it. I was completely
> uncontrolled, nearly psychotic, and the change in me was gradual enough so
> I missed it until I felt like I was absolutely losing my mind. I had
> "suicidal ideations," among other things. It was terrifying and it took a
> sort of moment of clarity for me to guess that it was the drugs. Last
> garbage in, sudden behavioral alterations. I was referred to a
> psychiatrist who basically said "Those things'll make you crazier than you
> are already." Duh. This after I was being weaned off them by my GP who'd
> prescribed them in the first place without doing a psychological profile or
> "head-history." I hope someone pulled her license.
>
> I believe the beta blockers may have altered my brain chemistry and forced
> the illness to the next level, i.e., from cyclothymia to outright
> manic-depression. I know: 'He probably thinks Martians implanted radio
> transmitters in his dentures." Not quite. Even if the illness was not
> ramped up by the medication, it does not live well inside the body and
> brain of anyone with clinical (unipolar) depression or bipolar disorder. I
> remember those six months as the most horrid of my life: even going through
> a divorce a couple of years later wasn't as bad as that.
>
> Where am I going with this? Very simple. If you are contemplating using
> beta blockers for performance anxiety, I beg you to know your CURRENT
> psychological profile beforehand: if you don't, get an evaluation before
> you start using these meds. They can take you to places marked "Here there
> be monsters," and you'll be the Monster King or Queen.
>
> This message will be repeated every time someone brings up this topic.
>
> Ken
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a
> continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
> soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
> ~St. John of the Cross, Maxims on
> Love (The Minor Works)
> Kenneth
> Wolman http://www.kenwolman.com
> http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
>
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