Well, maybe it's because I recognize some of the posters and know that they have children.

I know that patients are often hospitalized because of trauma or other reasons than
reactions to medications; I was simply looking for possible explanations as to why
a psychiatrist would very bluntly let a patient know that "I treat only medication
adjustments".

Every time that something has happened to me regarding surgery, the first thing my specialist would say is "it wasn't anything we did". Go figure. Maybe that's why I'm so wary about the readiness with which some doctors prescribe and do it with such ease and confidence, especially when they cannot know much about the patients allergies, inherited allergy gene, etc. They do make mistakes; we all do.

I no longer take a prescribed medication without follow-up on it. I also check on "black box" warnings about a drug, and I check on unusual side effects. For example, I take Prozac. I learned recently that Prozac will drain vitamin B6 from the system in being metabolized, so I take a vitamin B6 about every three days or so to provide that extra boost to my vitamin "warehouse" to counteract the med's drain.

Those are things that I think patients need to know about and be told about by their
psychiatrists. And I think that often a precipitating factor may be the system's reaction to the stress of strong, daily doses of potent medications. But that's just my view.

Well, I'm glad somebody agrees with something I've said; I should celebrate!

Thanks, Rose.

Take care.