I never liked giving Risperdal - I've never observed any clinical benefit from it whatsoever. It's what imho is a totally ineffective drug with side effects that are more reliable than any desired clinical outcomes, but psychiatrists were wedded to it at one time. I always tried to discourage the team from the emperor's new clothes syndrome of Risperdal - everyone pretends that the client is doing better from the drug when it is likely they are just clean, sober, eating better food, getting supportive interactions and positive feedback from the adults around them, getting exercise regularly. In other words the milieu is the therapeutic force, not the drug. And the weight gain and gynecomastia are pronounced. It really should be off the market.
You could say the same for Depakote. As a pharmacist and former patient, that drug is insane. The weight gain and disassociation was incredible.
I am no longer practicing, had to walk away in 2020 after 18 years in the field. I couldn't do it anymore in good conscience. Between years of dealing with mass opiate addiction and then the covid cult sponsored by the machine it was enough.
I'm glad to see people like you still in the trenches. Stay blessed and continue to heal people.
I had a real bad reaction to Depakote while hospitalized for manic depression .... went to sleep and woke up 4 days later. was told I was waking up eating and falling back to sleep but have no memory. when they took me off it I was awake for 5 days on a manic high. in the end was hospitalized for a month while they tried to stabilize me on medications. never stabilized suspect the reason I was released was insurance ran out. never got stability till stopped getting into stressful situations and the meds were out of my system for 3 years.
Unless you are overtly schizophrenic or severely bipolar (the latter of which is way over diagnosed), what you describe is the real treatment for most mental health issues. Well that and working on coping strategies for aberrant thoughts.
Sometimes those diagnoses are bunk for sure. Sometimes the mentally unstable get it into their head and behave in a way that gets them diagnosed as it because they aren't aware that there is a different root problem.
Mental health is a minefield. Mental health problems with over medication makes it a mass shooting.
Medication should definitely be the nuclear option, not the first.
I never liked giving Risperdal - I've never observed any clinical benefit from it whatsoever. It's what imho is a totally ineffective drug with side effects that are more reliable than any desired clinical outcomes, but psychiatrists were wedded to it at one time. I always tried to discourage the team from the emperor's new clothes syndrome of Risperdal - everyone pretends that the client is doing better from the drug when it is likely they are just clean, sober, eating better food, getting supportive interactions and positive feedback from the adults around them, getting exercise regularly. In other words the milieu is the therapeutic force, not the drug. And the weight gain and gynecomastia are pronounced. It really should be off the market.
You could say the same for Depakote. As a pharmacist and former patient, that drug is insane. The weight gain and disassociation was incredible.
I am no longer practicing, had to walk away in 2020 after 18 years in the field. I couldn't do it anymore in good conscience. Between years of dealing with mass opiate addiction and then the covid cult sponsored by the machine it was enough.
I'm glad to see people like you still in the trenches. Stay blessed and continue to heal people.
I had a real bad reaction to Depakote while hospitalized for manic depression .... went to sleep and woke up 4 days later. was told I was waking up eating and falling back to sleep but have no memory. when they took me off it I was awake for 5 days on a manic high. in the end was hospitalized for a month while they tried to stabilize me on medications. never stabilized suspect the reason I was released was insurance ran out. never got stability till stopped getting into stressful situations and the meds were out of my system for 3 years.
The opioid epidemic, yes. My doctor had me on, get this: 300 Utram, 150 Hydro 10's and 150 Oxy 10's.....a month.
Next thing I know, he stops prescribing opiates completely. Its a wonder I was able to survive not going to the streets and overcame it.
Still in ungodly pain but cannabis works better. I'll die by that.
I agree with the cannabis. I microdose hash rosin gummies and vape live resin. Completely changed my life.
Unless you are overtly schizophrenic or severely bipolar (the latter of which is way over diagnosed), what you describe is the real treatment for most mental health issues. Well that and working on coping strategies for aberrant thoughts.
Sometimes those diagnoses are bunk for sure. Sometimes the mentally unstable get it into their head and behave in a way that gets them diagnosed as it because they aren't aware that there is a different root problem.
Mental health is a minefield. Mental health problems with over medication makes it a mass shooting.
Medication should definitely be the nuclear option, not the first.