bees_knees
Bluelighter
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If you Google 'psychiatry success stories' you'll get just as many results as 'psychiatry dangerous'. The internet isn't a great place for information on these topics, it's just a place to select your agenda and get all the websites related to your belief or agenda, so that you can reinforce it, which is all we want to do.
Invega shouldn't have such a dramatic effect at low to moderate doses. Tell your psych to halve the dosage. At really high doses both Invega and Risperdal create/exacerbate negative symptoms of schizophrenia, the docs aren't unaware of this.
If you want to treat the negative symptoms my doc said to try low doses of Solian.
Docs and nurses in this field just want to keep you on as little medication you need for as little time you need to be on it. There are things called regulatory boards and there is a lot of scrutiny of what docs do in Australia at least. In Australia once you have been put on an involuntary treatment you instantly are summoned by a review board that reviews your docs decision to do this with you present and asks what you think about it. It is then reviewed every 6 months and if there is an extension made by the doc at any time the 6 month review plus the extension will warrant two hearings.
This isn't 1984 you know. Well maybe America is but yeah. :D
These drugs are really most effective for severe positive symptoms like hallucinations. They aren't effective for negative symptoms except a few like the one I mentioned. Clozapine is also good for negative symptoms.
I don't know I guess it's just not worth slamming this stuff as it works in many cases.
Invega shouldn't have such a dramatic effect at low to moderate doses. Tell your psych to halve the dosage. At really high doses both Invega and Risperdal create/exacerbate negative symptoms of schizophrenia, the docs aren't unaware of this.
If you want to treat the negative symptoms my doc said to try low doses of Solian.
Docs and nurses in this field just want to keep you on as little medication you need for as little time you need to be on it. There are things called regulatory boards and there is a lot of scrutiny of what docs do in Australia at least. In Australia once you have been put on an involuntary treatment you instantly are summoned by a review board that reviews your docs decision to do this with you present and asks what you think about it. It is then reviewed every 6 months and if there is an extension made by the doc at any time the 6 month review plus the extension will warrant two hearings.
This isn't 1984 you know. Well maybe America is but yeah. :D
These drugs are really most effective for severe positive symptoms like hallucinations. They aren't effective for negative symptoms except a few like the one I mentioned. Clozapine is also good for negative symptoms.
I don't know I guess it's just not worth slamming this stuff as it works in many cases.