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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back everyone .
Yes, indeedy, I know I promisedyou part two of the mental
illness episode and tonightwe're going to get at it.
I want to go over some thingshere in relation to this mental

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illness as a recap.
We spoke on the RD revolvingdoor of mentally ill patients
and we spoke about the differentlevels of mental illness.
I mentioned that I want to getdown to the heart of things as

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to what's going on, because whywould you take someone in to a
mental institution thatobviously has some form of
mental illness which cannot becured, and the length of stay in
the mental institution is up to60 days, unless you get some

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form of a court order orsomething to extend the stay of
this mentally ill patient?
So where are you going withthis?
Who's benefiting and is thereanother option?
Okay, so let's say top fivemedications used in mental

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institutions.
This is what I've come up withAnti-psychotics, okay.
Anti-depressants, moodstabilizers, anti-anxiety
medications and stimulants.
Now, you know the funny thingabout these medications, and

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they're pretty common.
About these medications andthey're pretty common, it sounds
to me a lot of something youwould give to someone to hush
them up, keep them quiet, havethem relax and just be still
which is great, you know, for amental institution while you
collect the money on histreatment, while you collect the

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money on his treatment, medicalblood and blood work and x-rays
, whatever you want to do tothis mentally ill patient who,
to me now, is beginning to seemlike some form of a guinea pig
or, you know, a porn in thechess game.
You know what I mean.
So, of these medications, let'ssee.
Let's take the antipsychoticmedication.
A common example of this wouldbe cutipine or cutipine.

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Okay, so let's do a littleresearch on cutipine or Cutipine
.
Okay, so let's do a littleresearch on a Cutipine and let's
see what we come up with.
Cutipine Okay, who is themanufacturer of this drug?

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This will pretty much tell uswho is making the money behind
this drug.
Okay, let's see what I havehere, and it seems as though.

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Let me do one more search here.
Give me a second, guys.
Let me do one more search hereand see if I have the right name
, because I don't want to callsomebody incorrectly.
Let's see here, because we wantto you know as close as we can

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to the facts here, whomanufactures, okay, okay, okay,

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who manufactures Cutipine In theUS.
It says here, and this is basedon.
Let's see which website isgiving us this data here, is
giving us this data?

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Here?
It's actually coming from themanufacturer themselves, which
is AstraZeneca.
So AstraZeneca in the US is thecompany that manufactures this.
There's also other companiesthroughout the world Canada and
a few other places that alsomanufactures this curatiopine,

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and AstraZeneca has themanufacturing and commercial
rights for this medication,which is also called Syracuse,
okay, syracuse XR.
While Astrogenica initiallymanufactured the drug, they sold

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the rights to a company calledSheplay Farm.
Sheplay Farm is the currentmanufacturer of this drug and
that's in the United States.
Okay, so let's just take a lookhere and see what is the net

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worth of a company likeAstraZeneca, or go here and this

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type in see I don't know thatwife, maybe that worth of
astrogenica AstraZeneca networth or market capitalization

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is approximately 207.11 billionUS dollars as of May 2025.
Wow, it is the second week ofMay.
This is like current as currentcan be.
This figure reflects the totalmarket value of the company's
outstanding shares.
Wow, wow, wow.

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I mean you got to look intosome of this, guys, the numbers
it has breakdowns for everythingtotal assets, key financial
metrics, historical market cap,current market cap, market
capitalization, aye, aye, aye,and we're looking at the current

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market cap is $207.11 billion.
This is a lot of money.
Now we're not saying that allof this is comes from this
single drug, but this is one ofthe companies that is

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capitalizing and making a lot ofmoney or for doping up people
who basically have no cure.
So okay, they'd say.
A professor once told me don'tpresent a problem without
presenting a solution.
Okay, so what do I see as asolution to this issue?

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I don't know.
But how about?
I mean this doesn't necessarilymean it's correct.
I'm just throwing something outthere, guys.
How about we take a facility, alarge community based facility?
Let's say, like I don't know,we had a Creedmoor the formal

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grounds, I don't even know ifCreedmoor is still in operation,
but let's say a place likeCreedmoor the formal grounds, I
don't even know if Creedmoor isstill in operation, but let's
say a place like Creedmoor whichhad a big property, had a lot
of property, and we turned itinto a community for mentally
ill people.
This community will consist ofdoctors, the patients, obviously

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maybe a way to.
These patients can go aroundand purchase certain items If
they need help.
They could have some form ofassistance, a chaperone or
something to take them shopping,to get them things that they
can use or need if they wereunable to do it themselves.

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This facility would house peoplethat were actually declared
unfit to function in society andthis way they could live as
close as possible to a normallife as close as we can get them
to a normal life and haveimmediate assistance right there

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for them.
We can have security you canhave.
Obviously there wouldn't be ajail unless one of them
committed a crime while in thecommunity that was so heinous
that maybe you would have atighter form of environment for

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them where they would not beable to commit a crime.
So within the facility itselfit could have.
Where they would not be able tocommit a crime, so within the
facility itself it could havelevels.
So depending on how the personprogresses or digresses, if at
all, will determine what leveland what amount of freedom they

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can have, rather than justtaking these people who we know
have a mental illness and pay nomind to the level or how, the
seriousness of their mentalillness, and just say you know
what, after 60 days we have tolet them go and put them back on
the street.
And then you wonder why all of asudden, the newspapers and the

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news and the media is coming upwith man Rams car into 30 people
and it shows that he has ahistory of a mental illness.
He shouldn't have never beenback on the street.
He needs supervision.
It's not the fault of his ownbecause he's mentally ill.

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It's not his fault.
If we have medicalprofessionals that have honestly
I use the word honestlyseriously diagnose this
individual as really seriouslyhaving a mental illness, then he

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should not be on the street andin this facility that I'm
proposing they could havevisiting his family could come
visit him.
There could be security there.
There's so much more you can dowith this, which is better than
putting these guys on thestreet guys or gals on the
street and allowing them tocommit more crimes, or pushing

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people in front of a train andtaking other people's lives or
whatever the case might be.
This RD thing is just notgetting it and as much as they
try to justify that it's working, it is not working.

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Working, it is not working,especially when you do some
research and you find out thatthe amount of people that are
being diagnosed with some formof mental illness is growing and
not decreasing.
So once we've had thiscommunity in place now, our

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phase two would be is to findout why, how and where this
mental illness is coming fromand see if there is a way to
curb it before it takes intofull effect.
Some people might feel thatyou're born with it.

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Some people say that it's dueto trauma.
Some people might classify itas a mental illness that
progresses over time.
There's different forms anddifferent root causes of a

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mental illness, and if there isa way that we can control some
forms of mental illness, thatitself in itself could possibly
save people's lives.
And that's my main concern here.

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My main concern is to be ableto help people, be able to help

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people that are mentally ill andnot being abused and taken
advantage of and used as someform of a porn or rat in a cage
or whatever you might want tocall it.
Treat it like human beings and,at the same time, save lives.
I mean, I don't have no problemwith 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

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Leaf.
Get a headache, sometimes I takean Advil or a leaf, I take a
painkiller.
If it works, it works.
However, a lot of times itmasks the pain and a lot of
times it may mask the pain tothe point where the pain itself
is actually going away, and oncethe medication is completed and
finished completed and finishedI'm good again.

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So don't get me wrong, I am notagainst manufacturers of
medication, but I am againstmanufacturers of medication that
is not doing what it should bedoing.

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Or Well, I shouldn't say notdoing what it should be doing,
because if you're giving someonea medication, so they are not
fixing the problem.
Now, when I take a painkiller,it might mask the problem and it

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might mask it long enough untilthe problem has subsided and my
headache is no longer there,which is great for me.
There's medications that I Iget when I had a surgery and I
didn't feel the pain.
That medication worked.
But if you give someone amedication or some form of

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medication, someone a medicationor some form of medication and
it's just repeated every sixhours just to keep them in a
state of mind for 60 days, andwhen you let them back on the
street they're back at theirnormal mental illness state,
then I don't think thatmedication is good and I don't
think it should be used.

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I think in that aspect, we needsome other form of treatment.
And not to mention, let's takea look at what some of the side
effects of some of thesemedications are.
Okay, this is what you know.
When I get my medication, Idon't think it tells you what

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the side effects are.
You know, the doctor just saystake one or two of these a day
for three days or five days, ora week or a month, or whatever
the case might be.
But unless you take the timeout to do some research and find

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out what the side effects are,some medications may not tell
you what the side effects are.
Cutipapine, commonly known bythe brand name Syracuse I think

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I'm pronouncing that correctlyS-E-R-O-Q-U-E-L or Syracuse or
whatever, is a typicalantipsychotic medication used to
treat various mental healthconditions, including
schizophrenia, bipolar bipolardisorder and major depressive
disorders.
Like all medications, q type ofpain can cause side effects,

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some of which can be serious.
Whoa, so let's bypass thecommon side effects, which I'm
to breeze through it right quickDizziness, lightheaded saliva
reduces saliva production, drymouth, yada, yada, yada.
You may experience increasedappetite.

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Okay, now let's get to the moreserious side effects, which is
what we're interested in Sideeffects, which is what we're
interested in Serious sideeffects.
Tardive Dyskynia, better knownas TD.
This is a movement disordercharacterized by involuntary

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movement, especially of the face, tongue or jaw.
I've seen people with somethinglike that.
Okay, td can be irreversible insome cases.
Not good, not good.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome,also known as NMS.

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This is a rare but potentiallyfatal condition that can cause
muscle stiffness, fever,sweating and changes in mental
status.
Wow, here's the next oneIncreased risk of death in

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elderly patients withdementia-related psychosis.
Quitopapine carries a boxwarning from the FDA about an
increased risk of death inelderly individuals with
dementia who take antipsychoticmedications.

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Wait a minute now.
Death.
Did this thing just say death,death.
And this is medication is usedfor depression, but also anxiety
disorder.
Wait a minute.
So I'm going to use oh wait,hold on, let me get that right

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here here.
Okay, this medication is used tomanage psychosis, a condition
where individuals may lose touchwith reality and experience

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hallucinations or delusions.
Okay, so let me see On the lefthand, we have hallucinations,
out of touch with reality anddelusions, and on the right side
, we have side effects, seriousside effects as death.

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Come on, you got to be kiddingme?
Irreversible TD, in some cases,movement of the face, tongue or
jaw Really Irreversible?
Are we understanding this?

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Irreversible?
Are we understanding this?
Irreversible, wow.
Suicidal thoughts and behaviorso if it don't kill you, it
makes you want to kill yourself,really, really.
And some individuals,especially young adults,

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q-typopine may increase the riskof suicidal thoughts or
behavior.
Changes in heart rhythm thisdrug can cause changes in heart
rhythm, including QT prolongedprolongation, which can be

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serious Prolongation.
Qt prolongation, which can beserious Seizures.
This drug can lower the seizurethreshold and may increase the
risk of seizures in someindividuals.
Low white blood cell countIsn't that the cell blood count

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that fights off colds?
And COVID-19 and differenttypes of infections in the body
can decrease white blood cellcounts, which can increase the
risk.
Yeah, it is can increase therisk of infection.

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Okay, so what if you just stopusing this thing after the
mental institutions have dopedyou up with it?
Let's see, stopping Q-type ofpain abruptly can lead to
withdrawal symptoms, includinginsomnia, nausea, vomiting,

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dizziness and irritability.
Well, you know what?
Out of all things, I will takethe withdrawal before I continue
on with this medication.
Knowing the serious sideeffects it has.
I'll take my chances with thewithdrawal if a mental
institution has doped me up withthis Q-type of pain.

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So, folks, this is just a quicksynopsis of what's going on.
I mean, there's a lot ofmedications out here that they
give you and I think we reallyneed to dig deep into what's
going on, what we're being dopedup with, what our family

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members are being doped up with.
And, as a last recount, I'mgoing to go over once again the
top five medications used inmental institutions
antipsychotics used in mentalinstitutions.
Antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety
medications and stimulants.

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Now, all of these sound fairlyharmless, but you really need to
check out the side effects onthis medication, because they
don't.
When you watch the televisionand you hear about these

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medications on TV, they gothrough the side effects so fast
that you have no idea what theyjust said.
Let's be alert.
Stay on board.
Thank you for tuning in Onceagain.
This is your pod host, og GOAT,and we've done it again.

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We're out.