Oh, antipsychotics of power,
How are you used so often this hour?
Though meant for your use
You're being abused
To ease the pain of dementia's shower

#dementia #antipsychotics #medication #overprescription #ode #poetry

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/antipsychotic-drugs-are-overprescribed-to-people-with-dementia

Everyone Was Wrong About #Antipsychotics
https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-was-wrong-about-antipsychotics/

Optimal antipsychotic dosing in first-episode schizophrenia: how much is too little, too much, or just right? https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=167899

Joe Pierre reports on the first published study exploring the relationship between antipsychotic dose and risk of relapse in first episode schizophrenia, which suggests that standard antipsychotic dosing is best for relapse prevention. #Antipsychotics #OptimalDose #Schizophrenia #FirstEpisodeSchizophrenia #RelapsePrevention

Uncertainties about stopping or reducing antipsychotics as shared by families
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=167054

Amelia Talbot considers a qualitative study that explores family members’ perspectives on reducing or discontinuing antipsychotic medication.

#Antipsychotics #Psychosis #Schizophrenia #Medication #QualitativeResearch #FamilyCarers

Very good article. Try #Music before #Antipsychotics. #EndAlz
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/26/songs-music-memory-connection/

People taking #lithium live longer than people taking other #antipsychotics. #lifespan #longevity https://www.lifespan.io/news/lithium-is-linked-to-lower-mortality/

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics https://apnews.com/article/ad76a524c9e97c5eaf857d89c4119b34

#endoflife #deathwithdignity #antipsychotics #opioids #opioidepidemic

this is a letter i wrote in the comments section of the NYTimes about the subject - please consider the current pushback against medication is inhumane

[Automatic repost https://twitter.com/dystobot/status/1606579233895190533]

RT @TruthCampaigns: @SHughesDr @dollyjoyner @LaurenPelley @PandasPans Omg this is their ploy to get you give #Children #antipsychotics 🧐 read #Prescribedharm patients stories

Feeling so low. Don’t know if it’s my #crohnsdisease flare or #antidepressants or #antipsychotics withdrawal or just being so poorly. Tried to ring the #IBD nurses for admission but the phone line is closed today. Need meds collecting tomorrow so really hoping they are ready in the AM when my carer can go and get them then hopefully I can be admitted to hospital for IV steroids. Have been ringing the pharmacy all day with no one answering. 😭😢😢😢😢

Last year I developed #tardivedyskinesia after being on #antipsychotics for six years. At first I was disappointed that I'd have to go off the atypical antipsychotic that had kept me stable for three years. But after I got off it, I also realized I'd been HAZED OUT for six years and not even realized it. They sapped my creativity, my ambition, and the things that made me, ME.

I'm on #lithium now and my SELF is back. But so is the struggle of having emotions. 😭

Second – Variations in LTCH hospitalizations during early COVID-19
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264240

Like in the community, hospital admissions from LTCH went ⬇️ in early COVID, but unlike in the community they did not recover by end of 2020. More #delirium, more #antipsychotics, less #pneumonia. Despite drop in admissions, no difference in acuity.

An unsettling truth about #AtypicalAntipsychotics: they are often quite capable of muzzling your horror at being trapped in an infinite and deeply unjust web of cause and effect in a universe where nobody is coming to save anybody.

But we *should* be horrified about that, lest we make it worse. Complacency kills - we who take these #meds typically know firsthand. Yet without them, the horror paralyzes us. So we make the trade.

#antipsychotics #mentalillness