Posted by capricorn on November 1, 2006, at 14:23:42
At what point does one say that drug therapy is of insufficient
benefit and not the best treatment choice?
I have been on 2.5 mgs of olanzapine since the first week in September and i don't think it has made much difference.
Even when i was on 10 mgs it was definitely better than nothing
but it was more a case of reduction of symptoms than total remission.I couldn't say for example that when taking 10mgs olanzapine x symptoms stopped but more like x symptom were milder/less frequent ie toned down but not eliminated.
With something like sz or bipolar and major depression medication is the definite main stay of treatment but when you are dxed with a vague 'personality
disorder' which encompasses elements of borderline,paranoid,schizotypal,avoidant then you are left wondering how much is brain chemistry and how much is just
'you being you'.
Especially when symptoms are still present to some degree when you are on meds.
It's hard to decide whether one is actually ill or just a
person of 'chronically inadequate character' polluting the human gene pool.
poster:capricorn
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