antipsychotics

Not everyone gets better when put on antipsychotics, but this doesn't mean a given individual has no hope.

It's tardive dyskinesia, and the term is typically used to denote the facial tics that are a sometimes permanent side effect of older antipsychotics.

That is: Antipsychotics are for people who experience psychosis, and people who experience psychosis are crazy lunatics, so it's absurd that so many normal people are being prescribed antipsychotics.

The symptoms aren't as bad as some of the described patients and improve when she's on antipsychotics.

Balancing potential benefits from antipsychotics against problematic side-effects is news to exactly zero people in the mental health field.

This month is long term use of antipsychotics on Schizophrenics: maybe these drugs affect the long term quality of life?

Compared to atypical antipsychotics, benzos or other mood stabilizers, lithium is a walk in the park.

Eli Lilly, Pfizer and AstraZeneca have collectively paid out more than $2.5bn in settlements over the off-label promotion of atypical antipsychotics.

The insinuation of headlines like this is that antipsychotics are inherently hardcore drugs for people with severe, possibly dangerous mental illness.

I have had a friend on antipsychotics, she basically told me that the side effects match the disease.

Zyprexa is widely regarded by psychiatrists as one of the most-powerful antipsychotics.

When I was on antipsychotics I couldn't wait to get off of them, and my psych was very supportive regarding that.

It's not fair to compare antipsychotics and other drugs to "fix" mental instability - those have terrible side effects.

She used to have "episodes" every year or so and go completely loony, and often try and kill herself in various ways and end up under supervised care for a bit - on various antipsychotics for a while.

Antipsychotics, like any medication, need to be monitored and modified as time goes on.