I have a friend in the EU who has been prescribed this med. We don't have this in the US and I can't find as much info on it as I'd like.
It's given to schizophrenics and for psychoses. My friend exhibits no signs of schizophrenia or psychosis in my understanding of those two conditions.
All I can see in my friend is depression and incredibly bad anxiety. This person is perfectly in touch with reality. I do not understand why a doctor would prescribe this med under those circumstances.
I was prescribed an anti-psychotic once by an ER doc during a bout of depression and extreme anxiety. After 3 days of trying to adjust to the med I tossed it in the trash. It was making me psychotic
When I saw my new pdoc a week later she was puzzled by the prescription but didn't say much except that tossing them in the trash was the right thing to do.
Isn't the first line of the Hippocratic oath something along the lines of "first, do no harm"?

[Bark]

Fluanxol (flupentixol)

At low doses, it is used to treat depression.

[LucyG]

Originally Posted by George H.

Isn't the first line of the Hippocratic oath something along the lines of "first, do no harm"?

I don't think doctors take the Hippocratic oath any longer. Now, they're more interested in the economics of health care as in death panels as Newsweek featured on their cover a few years ago.

[-jimi-]

A friend of mine took it for depression. It made her so sleepy she just went to bed in my house and couldn't be woken up. Old med and not very pleasant. But I guess some people have luck with it because it's still there.