its just a fancy way of saying that long term tranquilizer/antipsychotic use can cause serious problems, even lingering loss of IQ. ugh.

i've read a little bit about it. for whatever reason, once thorazine hit the market in the 50s, doctors in the US tended to use higher doses than european shrinks, a practice that continues to this day (especially in state hospitals).

so, it is known that high doses of the old drugs cause brain damage and cognitive problems. oddly...over the long haul, high dose tranquilizer/antipsychotics can make psychosis -worse- than it was before treatment (tardive psychosis).

and yet..im stuck on my abilify, lol. 20mgs/abilify is probably a lot easier to tolerate than 20mgs/haldol, lol. so...

this is just -1- example of people being stuck "in treatment" with drugs that suppress symptoms and, over the long haul, cost $$$ and can create their own set of problems.

and yet...what are we to do? personally, I'm glad I've been spared those involuntary, long acting injections. --shudder-- i see how the nurses at the clinic sometimes treat the people on those court orders, and...whoa. as if being pumped full of Prolixin or whatever wasn't bad enough, they have to deal with some sass from the nurses, lol.

ok. kind venting, kind of...ugh! what's the deal with psychiatry?