Your doctors do not know about sometimes permanent
Neuroleptic-Induced Deficit Syndrome (NIDS)? It is under-researched and under-recognized, i.e. not formally recognized in diagnostic manuals like the DSM-5 or ICD-11, but is a known condition.
According to AI search:
"A. Rifkin's 1984 paper "Neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome" is often cited as the foundational description of Neuroleptic-Induced Deficit Syndrome (NIDS). Rifkin described it as a state of apathy, lack of initiative, and emotional blunting directly caused by antipsychotics, distinguishable from depression and the primary illness.
Associated Researchers: Look for work from this era by John Kane, Stephen R. Marder, and Theo C. Manschreck. They often discussed "secondary negative symptoms" or "akinetic depression" induced by high-potency typical antipsychotics like haloperidol.
Search Terms: Use these in PubMed/Google Scholar: "neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome," "akinetic depression," "secondary negative symptoms antipsychotics," "drug-induced parkinsonism affective."
There is a new group "Iatrogenic Neuroimmune Disease Association" that put out a
research document last year with a brief paragraph about NIDS:
Source:
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8c970a38-146a-4f63-a408-d45f62d06b4b/downloads/c4249329-78d0-4acd-9c36-778a0248909e/PSSD Clinical Findings 2.0 - F2705s.pdf?ver=1763662133954
It is hard to compile data/evidence with cognitive dysfunction, but we need to be prepared to defend our claims for when situations like this one arise, so we can't be gaslit, silenced or ignored.
I was skimming old threads and users have been suggesting we do this for years, e.g.
@deficiT in 2024:
I guess you're right.There's really nothing.I could do about it right now. Might as well just try to keep it getting better
I do wish you the best brotha. There are a lot of really intelligent people here. I think if someone started writing about all this shit and relaying their experience, it could maybe do something to get the word out.
I mean could you imagine how influential it would be if when you Google the word "Invega", on the first page is a well thought out and researched article relaying the damage this drug can cause and a multitude of experiences backing this up?
I...
Fun fact: "It took psychiatry 20 years to recognize TD [tardive dyskinesia] as an iatrogenic illness, even as it afflicted half or more of hospitalized patients (Gelman, 1984)." - Peter Breggin from "Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry" (1997).
"In 1983, Dr Peter Breggin wrote about the risk of tardive dyskinesia in children and
tardive dementia in children and adults in his book "Psychiatric Drugs". This book and his efforts resulted in the U.S. FDA requiring the 1985 expanded class label for tardive dyskinesia for all neuroleptics."
Anyway, good on you for persevering
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