Posted by beckett2 on April 3, 2019, at 16:52:18
In reply to Re: NYer essay on psych drug detox, posted by SLS on April 2, 2019, at 9:29:40
> > If you're not behind the New Yorker's paywall, a good essay. There is an excellent audio version on the Audm app.
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> > https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-challenge-of-going-off-psychiatric-drugs
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> There are valuable lessons to be learned here. There isn't very much formalized study of drug-discontinuation syndromes and how to minimize them. Also lacking is the study of how long-term drug treatment changes the brain, and how persistent these changes are after a drug has been discontinued. I only skimmed the article, but I did not find any mention of how psychiatric drugs can dramatically improve how people experience life after years of torment and living in a vegetative state. Up until now, doctors have been hampered by a lack of scientific data and understanding. Choosing treatments has largely been trial-and-error using drugs with disturbing side effects. Obviously, there are too many people for whom drug treatment produces disappointing - and sometimes negative results. The same can be said about other types of illnesses. Psychiatric drugs can save lives and make them worth living. However, there is a need for finding new treatments and optimizing old ones. Psychiatry is not the work of the devil, as some people would like us to believe.
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> Robert Whitaker
> Irving Kirsch
> Joseph Glenmullen
> David Healy
> Peter Breggin
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> - Scott
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>I didnt read the essay as anti medication, although a quick or biased reading might think its reinforcing a bias they already hold.
like a bird on a wire
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