Andrew T. writes:
Thought you might find this interesting. I personally find it unsettling and paradoxically uninspirational. There’s something really depressing about most of the artwork shown, and the Risperdal ad that flashes at the end makes it all seem so contrived.
And what’s the message? If you take our medication, you’ll be more creative? Somehow I doubt that’s always the upshot.
liz | 8:04 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
That Risperal, a very potent and high risk antipsychotic, could inspire a person to be creative, artistic or expressive, is complete bullshit and it is big pharma marketing at its worst. I would never demean the art or artists shown.(hmmm, I wonder if they were paid/paid off by Janssen.) Art, music, poetry & writing are good for the mind, body and soul and certainly are a part of healing of any kind. But this soft and touchy/feely ad from Janssen makes me want to vomit. I find the “important safety information” that follows “Aspirations” particularly paradoxical and revolting. ASSpirations indeed.
Is it only the injectable form of Risperdal (Risperdal Consta) which fosters artistic expression?
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