neuroleptics

People with severe, long-term psychotic illnesses who are prescribed neuroleptics long-term and are unable to work comes to mind.

Managing plasma concentration in a finer-grained way might avoid some (not all) of the issues with neuroleptics.

Older neuroleptics have severe side effects that cause permanent Parkinson's-like movement disorders and are responsible for lowering patients' life expectancies.

In addition, there is no evidence that schizophrenics have any brain dysfunction other than that caused by taking neuroleptics for decades.

If you want to freak out about psych meds, go read up on neuroleptics.

And just FYI, only old doctors call them neuroleptics anymore in practice - we just say antipsychotics.

Worse, neuroleptics leave the majority of long term users with lifelong tics, tremors, rigidity, and other Parkinson’s style symptoms.

Was already scared that I'd become dependent on this, but atypical neuroleptics in low doses are less associated with tardive dyskinesia.

Treatment with benzodiazepines or neuroleptics may be of benefit (43–45).

Great, we already need robot neuroleptics to stop them hallucinating.

It's about: utility_positive_outcome * probability_postitive_outcome + utility_negative_outcome * probability_negative_outcome You've made these two smaller in absolute magnitude, but also biased things toward negative (look up the side effects of neuroleptics).

There is room for both perspectives: you can take your meds and benefit from them while people discuss the negatives about neuroleptics and aim to minimize treatment for mild cases.

Neuroleptics are not harmless, they make person very slow and apathetic, they kill all feels, that's why some people want to stop taking them.

Neuroleptics make schizophrenia patients more biologically vulnerable to psychosis.