anti-psychotic

The authors recommend prescribing a benign anti-parasitic ointment to build trust, then topping it up with an anti-psychotic.

Yes, there has been a major push by Medicare and others to reduce anti-psychotic use in the elderly.

We've known for a long time that anti-psychotic medication is pretty horrible.

However, he did mention that he is still taking the anti-psychotic medication, which can indeed inhibit the effects of schizophrenia for a long period of time.

Yes, anti-psychotic medication have worse side effects.

The introduction in the '50s of miraculously effective anti-psychotic drugs---something witnessed by my mother the nurse---allow solutions short of simple warehousing, but that wasn't enough for the powers that be, especially since there were more effective ways to buy votes.

Someone else mentioned bipolar disorder, and it's interesting to note that schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar disorders share a similar relationship to dopamine, and so the primary method of action of many anti-psychotic medications is to block dopamine reuptake.

(Elsewhere in this topic I mention how I later started taking a low dose of another antipsychotic to deal with anxiety in general, with very useful side effects for insomnia and allergies.) I did name one drug name because if any other atypical anti-psychotic will do the trick it should perhaps be tried, Zyprexa is pretty infamous for weight gain among other things.

Anti-psychotic medication isn't fun and has considerable side effects.