Posted by alexandra_k on September 24, 2005, at 23:54:30
In reply to Re: New and old antipsychotics have similar effica, posted by med_empowered on September 24, 2005, at 19:46:51
hmm...
i think that meds are effective in some respects...you don't typically see as many catatonic people as you used to (meds and ect)
you don't see as many floridly delusional people as you used to (meds)
you don't see as many (as severely) depressed people as you used to (meds and ect)but yeah, their ain't no 'wonder drug'.
i do think...
that the newer anti-p's are very different from the older anti-p's to take. from a first person experiential pov. i guess i'm mainly thinking of chlorpromazine (which is admittedly one of the oldest) but that is way different to take (and a hell of a lot more sedating) than the newer ones (respiridal, seroquel etc)but... dunno.
i dunno.
i don't really know anything about meds....
;-)i guess what i thought...
(though i don't know where i got this)
was that meds were terrific (generally) for reduction in the POSITIVE symptoms of schizophrenia...
but that meds were not really of much assistance with respect to the NEGATIVE symptoms.
(though even that distinction is controversial...)I dunno.
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