Desoxyn

"Olanzapine potentiates neuronal survival and neural stem cell differentiation: regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress response proteins"

"Chronic Olanzapine or Fluoxetine Administration Increases Cell Proliferation in Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex of Adult Rat"

"Long-term treatment with olanzapine increases the number of Sox2 and doublecortin expressing cells in the adult subventricular zone"

So yes.. I support olanzepine. The greatest med of all time! Because it's like a neuroprotective benzo? Yes...

Desoxyn

God I need to get out of this house. Everything is so boring.

I didn't apply for the job yet cuz my mom was busy but I will next Monday.

On another note: I've very suspicious of psychiatry.. But I'm also suspicious of conspiracy theorists.. In general I'm just suspicious of everything.

WastingAsparagus

I used to be pretty skeptical of psychiatry until I realized it helps me. Psychiatry as an institution used to scare me a lot. I used to read a lot of Thomas Szasz. I then realized that his position is just a critique of psychiatry. It's not like meant to make patients stop taking their meds. I guess? I am still a skeptic, but I know treatment has helped me a lot. I in fact don't know where I'd be without treatment, honestly.

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Desoxyn

Yeah.. There's just so much information about meds and drugs that are funded by Big Pharma.

I think psychiatry is good. I should have said the "Pharmaceutical companies".

All things are really scewed and polarized right now.. But I think in a few years, we'll understand more about things. Psychiatry can only get better - Cuz in the 50's etc that was baaaad...

I'm just very happy with olanzepine ^-; Psychiatrists love this med except that it makes people gain weight.