I like taking Seroquel and at low dosages it doesn't have all the risks everyone seems to focus on with atypical antipsychotics and if a patient says to a doctor, I feel better taking this and the risks are understood and accepted, it is good.

Of course we all need to be our own health advocates as patient consumers and seroquel does help some people who are not necessarily experiencing psychosis. Medicine is a business that isn't conspiracy. That's economics.

Being mentally ill sucks, a lot, so much so that without this drug, whether off label or not, the risks of drug abuse, debt, lost jobs, marital and family breakdown and suicide, let alone the pure hell and anguish mental illness can cause in an individual, are worth many risks of the drug.

I've taken a lot of psych drugs and with all of them it is a trade off between effects and side effects. Are the benefits more than the risks? If so, take it.

So, that being said, why do I take seroquel? My brain hates me and seroquel helps control that. Medical terms are, I suppose, insomnia because of bipolar disorder and anxiety.