Posted by big time on July 26, 2007, at 18:19:34
In reply to Re: can we talk Typical Antipsychotics? » big time, posted by Squiggles on July 26, 2007, at 17:59:58
> > i have bipolar 1 and have taken haldol, which i guess is one of the classic antipsychotics. not fun. wouldn't recommend it. lots of akathesia and feeling like lead. if you can think of the part of you that one might call your "soul", you will be completely cut off from that.
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> Haldol for bipolar? I thought that went out
> of circulation a long time ago.
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> I read about it in Robert Whittaker's book as well as Healy's and others-- it's an old drug
> used for many types of mental illness. I would think we have become a little more specialized now.
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> Hope you found something better.
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> Squiggles
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>my pdoc was old school. this was seven years ago. i had a very severe case with florid psychosis. even so. i much prefer zyprexa, which is what i take now. also, i think lithium is better overall, which is why i take so much lithium now.
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