Posted by Christ_empowered on March 3, 2019, at 15:47:47
In reply to Re: neuroleptic dosage, posted by Lamdage22 on March 3, 2019, at 5:26:50
im only on 20mgs/abilify, but im prone to depression, so this is about as much as I can tolerate w/o drug-induced depression and, honestly, id probably be in a better, brighter mood on 10-15mgs/daily.
at least seroquel has that antidepressant metabolite, right? plus the relatively low eps and TD. abilify doesn't cause much TD in animal models, but now that everybody and their mama is on Abilify for depression, anxiety, etc., more TD is popping up, and its sometimes harder to treat than the TD from the other tranquilizers.
i read about a sizeable subset of "mental patients," from way back when, who would just keep some Thorazine or whatever handy, and take it when things got rough. another group took a very low dose daily, and extra when things got rough. both groups ended up doing better, better quality of life, than the more heavily medicated groups...
so, its something i more aware of, now...that drawbacks to some psych drugs, over the long haul. neuroleptics can exacerbate 'negative symptoms' and often create a definite 'deficit syndrome...'
and yet, how to deal? some older data indicated that using sufficient doses of benzodiazepines during the prodrome was useful. thing is...
for me and some other people/'patients,' there is something about the neuroleptics, in particular, that offers a distinct benefit over simple sedation. i dont know if its because i sometimes have trouble filtering out incoming stimuli or if its because the neuroleptics help me look outwards, not get sucked into some inner psychodrama during bad periods, but...
blah. on the one hand, i have a "robust repsonse to aripiprazole." on the other hand, I'm really not gung ho about staying tranquilized, at whatever dose, indefinitely...if it is possible to find a better way, that is.
thanks. :-)
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