Posted by med_empowered on January 1, 2007, at 19:28:10
In reply to Re: about Zyprexa?, posted by laima on January 1, 2007, at 18:54:29
I dont know whats up w/ docs loving zyprexa, either. I think the way it was pushed helped. Here was a drug that (at first) seemed to be ideal: it stopped psychosis, mania, helped with depression, and since the risks of akathisia and tardive dyskinesia seemed so low, it could also be used for anxiety, OCD, agitation, sleep...on and on. If you look back to the 50s-70s, shrinks were in love with the old antipsychotics, too; they were used for ADD kids, drug withdrawal, depression, anxiety, bipolar, agitation, "senile agitation", so on and so forth. Back in the day there was even a book about it...I think it was called The tranquilizing of America, or something like that.
As a (former) psychiatric patient, I find it a little disturbing that shrinks fell in love with it. I mean, if the effects of a neuroleptic (apathy, docility, reduced emotion) produce what shrinks consider "success" in so many people, then what exactly do they think "mental health" looks like? A sedate, reasonably friendly but dull patient on a little bit of Thorazine? And why, knowing what neuroleptics do to creativity and emotions, do shrinks feel the need to spray them on everyone, for everything?
Its kind of scary.
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