Shirts that advertise anti-psychotic medications.

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As an aspiring guitar player, I realize image is very important. I've been on nearly very prescription drug for biopolar and autism created. I'd love to wear a shirt while preforming that was given out directly from Lilly or Phizer to promote anti-psychotic or mood disorder medications. Any suggestions on how to contact a corporation for this type of advertising? I have found a few numbers that I will call in the morning but non of them look very promising. Also, I have searched corporate websites for e-mail addresses and further information but still I have found nothing that really seems appropriate. The secretary at my doctor's office has pens that advertise seroquel. (You better believe I snatched one of those) I'd love some more but a t-shirt would be perfect for me and display a major part of my life. I'd even be willing to buy one.

My son is on Abilify (an atypical anti-psychotic) and Trileptal (an anti-convulsant which acts as a mood stabilizer.) Those medications saved our family and him. If anyone had lived with him when he needed these meds and didn't have them yet, they would understand what I mean. There is part of me that understands wanting to advertise them on a t-shirt, just like Born Again Christians feel compelled to put a fish on their car.

Then again, I've learned that I need to be really, really careful about mentioning his meds to anyone. People who have no opinion on anything else in the world have opinions on psychiatric medications for kids. People who have never needed them, or lived with someone who needs them, think they are a cop out. I can't tell you how many times I've been told that if I truly loved my kid, I wouldn't be poisoning him. But I've seen his terror and helplessness and pain, from before he had the medication that he needs. The naysayers haven't seen that. They've just read the magazine articles about how kids are overmedicated, and given prescriptions for ritatin for acting like normal children. He was psychotic, terrified, and pretty much suicidal at the age of 6. Now he's a generally happy, thriving aspie, able to pursue his interests and enjoy life.

Of course, you aren't wanting to put the t-shirt on a kid, so you're probably safe there.

I'm just saying, be prepared, because people have strong opinions about this stuff, and can be dogmatic and viscious about it.

Not so long ago I was having to get injections in my thigh for fluphenixol. For men they put it in thier butt. For women they put it in thier leg.
I hate it, its really strong. I am glad I dont have to have it anymore.
Now I am just on seroquel, quetiapine.

I would strongly urge you to NOT do this. Prescription medications are meant to be prescribed by doctors. A T-shirt cannot possibly impart all of the information necessary for people to make an informed choice about some medications which are potentially very, very dangerous. Personally I think it's bad enough that we in the US have ads for prescription drugs. That's illegal in most of Europe, and I understand why. Laymen should not be deciding what medications to take based on commercials produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

Additionally, while it's great that anti-psychotics worked for you, they are NOT for everyone, and they can be harmful for people, including autistic people. See Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse. My aspie boyfriend has experienced long-term chronic pain because of side-effects from Abilify. I'm not saying that these drugs are always bad, but people need to be careful and advertisements, on T-shirts and otherwise, do not promote caution and education with regards to this subject. I wish everyday that his [expletive] psychiatrist had not put him on such a high dose of anti-psychotics. I wish that he, or I, or his parents, had thought to question this doctor sooner. If you find the medication helps you, that's great, but please, please, please be careful about advertising to others.

Ive been prescibed antipsychotics for PD and not autism but i know high doses can make you go spaz. Ive been prescribed orphenadrine to counter effect the side effects of antipsychotics.
I only take a low dose now. I havnt told them, i actaully dont take them regulary only when i need to go to sleep.

Perhaps I should have clarified that I would only be wearing shirts of medications I have been prescribed and taken. Advertising is the wrong word for it. The intention is to express a major part of my life and hopefully the consequence is a reduction in stigma.

Adverb wants you to know that you should go to Cafepress if you want that kind of shirt, and I think it's a good idea as well. You can design your own antipsychotic advertisement shirts and have them made.

Why the antipsychotics? I mean, there's plenty of shirts that advertise stuff like being bipolar; wouldn't that be a bigger part of your experiences than the meds you take for it?

1. Download the logo of choice from the internet, as large as possible.
2. Buy some Iron-On Transfer paper ($10-20 at Target, Wal-Mart, etc.)
3. Print out the logo onto the Iron-On Transfer paper.
4. Using the instructions supplied with the paper, apply the design onto a blank shirt.

You can do that for just about anything.

To me things like Bipolar and Aspergers are independent psychiatric inventions. We could all wake up tomorrow, turn on the morning news and learn that doctors no longer believe that Bipolar and aspergers exist. In the next few years it might turn out that we all have Callista syndrome. Just kidding Callista. The medications I've been on and the experiences I had taking them will never change.

Ah. Well, then, go for something more general. I've long wanted a T-shirt that says, "I'm weird. Get used to it."

That would be a copyright violation, though.

grahamcakes, perhaps you'd try one of these t-shirts. The font is made of photographs of real neurological meds. They don't advertise any particular one. Their sale supports the excellent and very pro-meds http://www.crazymeds.us/ site. It's worth supporting. And possibly the guy will make you one with your choice of slogan if you ask him.

How would they like being given injections in thier thigh or ass.
Im really not liking psychiatrists. They get on my nerves

Whats next? People walking around proudly with Viagra and birth control T-Shirts?

They already exist Well, the viagra ones are mostly joke T-shirts, of course.