I was crushed to hear this story. I was put on seoquxl and was falling all over, fell down steps and broke bones. I got a horrendous rash. I checked with the psychiatrist to get something else and when I walked out I saw it was just another script for Seroquxl. I finally decided to go off it on my own and I stayed for two weeks, shades down, dark room. I barely slept or ate. I just stared at whatever was on the TV. I know, that's not recommended (but neither is a lifetime of this drug). I got much better and have never seen a psychiatrist again.
Seroquel is so horrible, I could think straight at all, couldn‘t move normally, my blood pressure got really low, I was dizzy all day long:( I refused to take it after the first experience…
Yes it certainly is how psychiatry is for teens in America unless the parents present themselves as conscious and financially able to take action against the doctor. If not, if it's just a normal teen, they may have their life completely taken from them in the form of getting help.
Your videos are excellent. I’m 21 and have had a really rough time with modern psychiatric drugs. I’m 15 days post jump from 3mg of Xanax, and you are really helping me through the darkest period of my life. Thankyou and PLEASE continue the good work - don’t let yourself be perturbed by these huge companies agendas. I wish more people knew about this channel.
Psychiatrists are adversaries, like the police, everything you say and do can be used against you. Their shareholders are the State, or the people you annoyed.
I contend that there are lots of people at the top--those who are above the Drs., as well as pharmaceutical company employees--who need to be sued immediately. If not sooner. There is a lawyer from GWU in DC, I can't remember his name, who has sued the FDA and won a number of times. It can be done! Lawyers, get busy!
Oh my gosh, I was put on klonopin for long covid, definitely had some severe mental problems from covid, just got off of the klonopin, been 4 months now, its been a ride. A virus or a born illness can absolutely cause mental problems. Im so sorry, i was diagnosed right away with long covid, and neuroinflammation, unfortunately got on benzos, so sorry this happened to your daughter, its so crazy, they obviously dont know what they are doing, if they did not know that viruses and born illnesses can cause this.
I hated quetiapine so much that I quit taking it after less than 1 month. (I'm not psychotic or manic, incidentally; I'm justifiably angry at being abused for several years.)
Normal anger! See if you can find Dr Ramani's interview of singer-songwriter Jewel. I think you'll feel validated and inspired to sort out how to move forward.
And if you say you are angry because of the abuse and disillusioned with the medical and pharma industry, they diagnosis you with more mental illnesses because anger & disillusionment is 'not normal'
Its so sad people go to the medical industry for help and more and more horror stories are more common. I was on Seroquel 300 mg from 13 to 18 years old. I got off of the medication right before I turned 18 because I know I was moving out. I also knew that my father would cut my insurance because I was leaving and I wanted to have a few months to taper. Back in 2011 it was $400 without insurance. Basically I feel like my brain wasn't able to grow right. I'm 31 years old and I can't sleep without an aide. If I don't take something to help sleep, I literally just can't fall asleep for days and at some point I finally crash. It also mess with my emotional regulation and decision-making. Again this formative years when we're learning that stuff I just didn't have much of a reaction to things. Looking back I definitely don't think I should have been on this heavy of a medication. Since I was 12 years old they couldn't legally diagnosed me bipolar. Grew up in an unstable home and kids act out. I think about a lot of the time how different my life could have been if I would have been able to stay on my stepmom's insurance till I was 25. Not only with medication management and therapy. But also being diagnosed with brain tumors at 26 years old followed by three brain surgeries. The first one failed leaving me with an extreme chronic pain condition known as #atypicaltrigeminalnuuralgia Since there is so much scar tissue that you couldn't say the doctor necessarily did it. Even though his right hand man in surgery tell me when him and I were alone in the room what had happened. The surgeon continued to cut while I wasprofusely bleeding for 3 to 4 seconds and cut really sensitive nerves in the face. Also having blood all the way down to my neck and chest when I woke up from surgery. They Failed me to clean me off of all the blood, was a good indication of proof of what the doctoyrs assistant said. Having a regyular check ups with stable insurance could have aided in provision. For anyone reading this especially parents just because it's your mad at your kid's Life choices who they date who they live with when they're legal age don't take away important things like health insurance. If they're trying to work out paying you give them a chance.
Your story sounds similar to mine. I was misdiagnosed as bipolar at 13 and put on 200mg of seroquel. I was so zombified I couldn't function at school. Fortunately I sustained no permanent damage from it, but I did develope full-blown pssd coming off my last ssri. I live in hell 24/7. I'm sorry you were also permanently harmed by psychiatry. Its so disgusting and criminal what they do. I hope you're doing at least a little well after everything you've been through. Stay strong. ❤️
I experience trouble swallowing from every antipsychotic I've ever taken. I can't take cogentin due to the combination causing urinary retention. I also can't take a SSRI in combination with an AP. That also causes urinary retention for me. Been on AP's for 11 years. I'm worried I will never be able to taper successfully.
Quetiapine has a higher affinity for serotonin at lower doses. It's typically very sedating at 25 and 50mg, enough to knock out a horse. As the dose increases it shifts more towards dopamine and is often less sedating.
Psychiatrists are not Drs... therefore they can only offer a diagnosis based on a DSM book created by people who voted on a label based on common behaviours...
That is a ridiculous comment. Psychiatrists absolutely are medical doctors, and have to graduate from medical school, just like any other medical doctor does. Their choice of specialization is Psychiatry, just like an Obgyn specialty is Obstetrics, and a Endocrinologist is Endocrinology. All equally medical doctors who have picked an area to specialize in.
@@justylex I think what they meant to say is psychiatry isn't a medical science. It doesn't have verifiable biological markers and so isn't a medical science. They push drugs for arbitrarily defined (made up) illnesses.
When I was listening to this story, I assumed this was decades ago and that's why they handled it so bad... I'm just now realizing that this was only a couple years ago. Wtf
My psychiatrist & therapist at php told me they have to give you a billable diagnosis because there are codes through insurance. I was also told by them when a doctor wants to be mean even when they know somethings wrong due to medication injury they’ll diagnose a patient with borderline schizoeffective. I wish I would’ve had the last psychiatrist I had to begin with when I went to the hospital after taking Cipro for a month and being abruptly stopped on kolonopin for the 3rd time. I couldn’t sleep and my skin burned so the doctor deemed me bipolar schizo the same diagnosis as Jordan Peterson. When I met with an addictionologist a couple of years later I was informed those were withdrawal symptoms. That was the 5th time I got abruptly stopped because the doctors think you can replace a benzo with fucking zyprexa. I live in Oklahoma with idiots for healthcare, I advise stay far away from any hospital here and western medicine. We have very few functional/Intragrative medicine doctors here.
My son has schizoaffective and autism in Ireland He has had catatonia and agitation. But all doctors so far deny catatonia. It’s so difficult just more antipsychotics
I'd be interested in your take on phenibut (similar to gabapentin). I tried this, tragically it made me feel more "normal" but had some other aspects and euphoria and so on. I think most of the damage was structural but in a functional sense, rather than an organic one. My primary suspicion is that, in people with certain dissociative traits, similar to messing with the cannabinoid system it lulls an aspect of the mind to sleep and a lot of that machinery also falls into disuse and starts to wear down. This results in rapid and forced erosion of amnesia barriers, but it comes through in somatic / body memories rather than any cognitive recollection. Very unpleasant. I didn't go to any extremes either, maybe a gram every other day or two, 1.5 grams max. Took a year or two to rebuild the mind. So there were downsides given that I was not operating with clear intent, but I can also see how in people where the dissociative aspects are more a matter of "active" filtering systems that strip away and redirect certain things before they reach the conscious mind, or suppression of recall, that lulling this part of the mind into a state of passivity and (arguably false) security and apathy, could be net beneficial. In the right context. It doesn't appear to decrystallize the mind though. The only reliably means of rapidly doing this that I've found would be mixing alcohol and kava. Not suggesting anyone does this. I think norepinephrine / dopamine turnover, and a certain balance of the cannabinoid system and GABA, are doing something very key. Which is underappreciated. To add also, eg anandamide in chocolate (which may or may not be well absorbed) is fine for me, but something like marijuana is crippling and causes depression for several days after. Kava will also do this, but in a milder sense, and over a greater timescale. It is unfortunate that no one is looking at the role of oxytocin and the cannabinoid system in early development and modulation of behavior. Phenibut apparently blocks a certain class of VGCCs.
The lawyer I mentioned is Jonathan Emord. I thought he was once a professor at GWU but, apparently, he was a lecturer at Georgetown. My mistake. He has sued the FDA and won. That is not a mistake.
This was really interesting, and painful to listen to! So very pleased that things finally worked out in the end. I'm not sure if I missed something, but why was the daughter able to suddenly stop seroquel in the end, yet any previous attempts led to her not being able to sleep for days. Have I misunderstood?
This reminds me, when i was a teenager i read about a kid that was accidentally given like 400mg of seroquel and the kid went into a state of declining Catatonia. They cooked this kids brain. Pretty wild.
I have dysautonomia that I have always suspected was long covid. I was put on 75mg Seroquel over a year and a half ago due to prescription of diazepam became adverse (8 weeks in). I have never presented with any form of delirium / psychosis / delusions etc. Just anxiety. I managed to reduce down from 10mg to 8mg diazepam and almost immediately became dizzy and unstable. That was over a year ago and I’ve had to hold ever since thinking it would get better, but it has got progressively worse. My GP said I risk psychosis if I come off Seroquel. Could it be causing my POTS like symptoms / tachycardia etc?
I had the same bad reaction to the benzodiazepine over a longer time. I only took one Seroquel pill though and figured it was not for me. I also had POTS like symptoms along with other dysautonomia symptoms. I believe all my damage is from the benzo. I am off all meds for a few years now. I am much better now but still cant tolerate exercise well. My symptoms are very much improved but not back to what I would call normal. I now feel safe standing in a shower at least, can stand long enough took cook meals and I can mow my lawn in one day (usually). Hopefully with time I will continue to improve but it's a slow progress. Seroquel scares the crap out of me because of it's link to diabetes and other health issues. I was not informed about this and found about it later. I am happy that I never gave it a chance. I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your reply. I had no informed consent (was forced to take despite knowing the risks - I was a public health specialist and did my research). I was given a sheet that said I could just come off anytime (that I knew was untrue). Wishing you continued healing, I doubt I’ll ever recover / be able to get off these meds. Thank you for your reply and BW
Also the metabolic issues with quetiapine are certainly scary. What happened to Masterly Inactivity / Do No Harm? Who would ever prescribe this drug unless absolutely a last resort (ie short term for serious psychosis). The people who treat crazy’s are crazier 😂 Now that’s ironic!
I am NOT pro pharma, but have seen many who benefitted from psychotropic meds, including Seroquel. It seems the theme here is to vilify all psychotrophics, and those who prescribe them. Agree a common side effect of Seroquel is severe drowsiness, but it usually subsides in a few days. Many who struggle with mania are also sleep deprived, so the initial drowsiness of Seroquel (and similar meds) is often of therapeutic benefit, since mania and insomnia are often a spiraling, positive feedback loop. I agree with caution in long term prescribing any psychotropic, but there's no one-size-fits-all approach. It's a balancing act, and the medical model's approach is often to foster dependency, which contrasts with psychotherapy, which is to promote autonomy ASAP. But again, it's a balancing act, and often therapy goes better when combined with meds (psycho-pharma-co-therapy), at least initially.
It's true, though - a lot of doctors will just prescribe patients with whatever will make drug companies the most money without actually caring about the patient themselves. Doctors who don't do that are like, 1/5. Just the other day, I fired a doctor because he kept changing how long it would take for me to finally feel a difference (initially, it was a few weeks; then it was a few months). I've seen doctors prescribe patients with opiates (extremely addictive) just for bladder infections. When I was growing up, the treatment for bladder infections were antibiotics. The whole industry is a profit-machine now.
Seroquel causes serious side effects, especially in the long term,. Long QT, diabetes, hypothyrodism, diabetes, increased cholestrol, sleep apbea, restless legs syndrome, supressed lung function, colon paralysis, electrolyte imbalanxe, cognitive decline, speech and memory problems, dysphaghia, dysphonia, movement disorders (incl akathisia), weight gain, lack of motivation & focis, anhedonia, causes tolerance, hallucinations, psychosis, rebound insomnia, rebound anxiety, histamine intolerance, hyperacusis, dementia. Seroquel (like other APs) shrink the brain. This is not a mild drug. It is horrific it is precribed the way it is for sleep.
This is a conversation about the potential dangers of quetiapine. It's not for entertainment. If you want to be entertained, then go see a movie or watch Family Guy. Duh. 😵💫
First episode psychosis treatment and drag on medication sounds familiar. My son had PE from med … Fever , chill , up the heat rate No one take us seriously The clot is
I was crushed to hear this story. I was put on seoquxl and was falling all over, fell down steps and broke bones. I got a horrendous rash. I checked with the psychiatrist to get something else and when I walked out I saw it was just another script for Seroquxl. I finally decided to go off it on my own and I stayed for two weeks, shades down, dark room. I barely slept or ate. I just stared at whatever was on the TV. I know, that's not recommended (but neither is a lifetime of this drug). I got much better and have never seen a psychiatrist again.
Seroquel is so horrible, I could think straight at all, couldn‘t move normally, my blood pressure got really low, I was dizzy all day long:( I refused to take it after the first experience…
"The Psychiatrist seemed to be punishing her." Oh how true this is.
Yes it certainly is how psychiatry is for teens in America unless the parents present themselves as conscious and financially able to take action against the doctor. If not, if it's just a normal teen, they may have their life completely taken from them in the form of getting help.
@@TruthTeller-ez7ev psychiatrists are all about having power over another....
Your videos are excellent. I’m 21 and have had a really rough time with modern psychiatric drugs. I’m 15 days post jump from 3mg of Xanax, and you are really helping me through the darkest period of my life. Thankyou and PLEASE continue the good work - don’t let yourself be perturbed by these huge companies agendas. I wish more people knew about this channel.
Good job
@ mfdoin9437
Psychiatrists are adversaries, like the police, everything you say and do can be used against you. Their shareholders are the State, or the people you annoyed.
I contend that there are lots of people at the top--those who are above the Drs., as well as pharmaceutical company employees--who need to be sued immediately. If not sooner. There is a lawyer from GWU in DC, I can't remember his name, who has sued the FDA and won a number of times. It can be done! Lawyers, get busy!
Oh my gosh, I was put on klonopin for long covid, definitely had some severe mental problems from covid, just got off of the klonopin, been 4 months now, its been a ride. A virus or a born illness can absolutely cause mental problems. Im so sorry, i was diagnosed right away with long covid, and neuroinflammation, unfortunately got on benzos, so sorry this happened to your daughter, its so crazy, they obviously dont know what they are doing, if they did not know that viruses and born illnesses can cause this.
Vaccine also causes issues.
It would have been interesting to have the daughter participate in interview as well.
I hated quetiapine so much that I quit taking it after less than 1 month. (I'm not psychotic or manic, incidentally; I'm justifiably angry at being abused for several years.)
Normal anger! See if you can find Dr Ramani's interview of singer-songwriter Jewel. I think you'll feel validated and inspired to sort out how to move forward.
And if you say you are angry because of the abuse and disillusioned with the medical and pharma industry, they diagnosis you with more mental illnesses because anger & disillusionment is 'not normal'
@@Ann-l7x lmao true
This is soooo important...soooo important.
Keep raising these drugs, broadly -related/-based topics.
Also, drugs practices, broadly -related/-based topics and drugs paraphernalias, broadly -related/-based topics too.
Also, in-conjunction with foods, broadly -related/-based issues and in-conjunction with sleep -related/-based issues.
"You will remember she was exhibiting psychiatric symptoms before" is medical gaslighting at its finest
Its so sad people go to the medical industry for help and more and more horror stories are more common.
I was on Seroquel 300 mg from 13 to 18 years old. I got off of the medication right before I turned 18 because I know I was moving out. I also knew that my father would cut my insurance because I was leaving and I wanted to have a few months to taper. Back in 2011 it was $400 without insurance.
Basically I feel like my brain wasn't able to grow right. I'm 31 years old and I can't sleep without an aide. If I don't take something to help sleep, I literally just can't fall asleep for days and at some point I finally crash. It also mess with my emotional regulation and decision-making. Again this formative years when we're learning that stuff I just didn't have much of a reaction to things. Looking back I definitely don't think I should have been on this heavy of a medication. Since I was 12 years old they couldn't legally diagnosed me bipolar. Grew up in an unstable home and kids act out.
I think about a lot of the time how different my life could have been if I would have been able to stay on my stepmom's insurance till I was 25. Not only with medication management and therapy. But also being diagnosed with brain tumors at 26 years old followed by three brain surgeries. The first one failed leaving me with an extreme chronic pain condition known as #atypicaltrigeminalnuuralgia
Since there is so much scar tissue that you couldn't say the doctor necessarily did it. Even though his right hand man in surgery tell me when him and I were alone in the room what had happened. The surgeon continued to cut while I wasprofusely bleeding for 3 to 4 seconds and cut really sensitive nerves in the face. Also having blood all the way down to my neck and chest when I woke up from surgery. They Failed me to clean me off of all the blood, was a good indication of proof of what the doctoyrs assistant said.
Having a regyular check ups with stable insurance could have aided in provision.
For anyone reading this especially parents just because it's your mad at your kid's Life choices who they date who they live with when they're legal age don't take away important things like health insurance. If they're trying to work out paying you give them a chance.
Your story sounds similar to mine. I was misdiagnosed as bipolar at 13 and put on 200mg of seroquel. I was so zombified I couldn't function at school. Fortunately I sustained no permanent damage from it, but I did develope full-blown pssd coming off my last ssri. I live in hell 24/7. I'm sorry you were also permanently harmed by psychiatry. Its so disgusting and criminal what they do. I hope you're doing at least a little well after everything you've been through. Stay strong. ❤️
I experience trouble swallowing from every antipsychotic I've ever taken. I can't take cogentin due to the combination causing urinary retention. I also can't take a SSRI in combination with an AP. That also causes urinary retention for me. Been on AP's for 11 years. I'm worried I will never be able to taper successfully.
Quetiapine has a higher affinity for serotonin at lower doses. It's typically very sedating at 25 and 50mg, enough to knock out a horse. As the dose increases it shifts more towards dopamine and is often less sedating.
Reference please i will be very thankful to you
❤you are a great mom!
Psychiatrists are not Drs... therefore they can only offer a diagnosis based on a DSM book created by people who voted on a label based on common behaviours...
Psychiatrists are MDs and are indeed medical doctors with a specialization in mental health.
You might be referring to Psychologists. These are PhDs.
@@FetidFart still they seem to have little to no medical expertise. It is the laziest specialty: Doctor with no need for physical exams.
@@FetidFart How to specialize in mental health? Can you describe their training in terms of evidence-based diagnosis and treatment?
That is a ridiculous comment. Psychiatrists absolutely are medical doctors, and have to graduate from medical school, just like any other medical doctor does. Their choice of specialization is Psychiatry, just like an Obgyn specialty is Obstetrics, and a Endocrinologist is Endocrinology. All equally medical doctors who have picked an area to specialize in.
@@justylex I think what they meant to say is psychiatry isn't a medical science. It doesn't have verifiable biological markers and so isn't a medical science. They push drugs for arbitrarily defined (made up) illnesses.
When I was listening to this story, I assumed this was decades ago and that's why they handled it so bad... I'm just now realizing that this was only a couple years ago. Wtf
My psychiatrist & therapist at php told me they have to give you a billable diagnosis because there are codes through insurance. I was also told by them when a doctor wants to be mean even when they know somethings wrong due to medication injury they’ll diagnose a patient with borderline schizoeffective. I wish I would’ve had the last psychiatrist I had to begin with when I went to the hospital after taking Cipro for a month and being abruptly stopped on kolonopin for the 3rd time. I couldn’t sleep and my skin burned so the doctor deemed me bipolar schizo the same diagnosis as Jordan Peterson. When I met with an addictionologist a couple of years later I was informed those were withdrawal symptoms. That was the 5th time I got abruptly stopped because the doctors think you can replace a benzo with fucking zyprexa. I live in Oklahoma with idiots for healthcare, I advise stay far away from any hospital here and western medicine. We have very few functional/Intragrative medicine doctors here.
My son has schizoaffective and autism in Ireland
He has had catatonia and agitation. But all doctors so far deny catatonia. It’s so difficult just more antipsychotics
I am so sorry.
I'd be interested in your take on phenibut (similar to gabapentin). I tried this, tragically it made me feel more "normal" but had some other aspects and euphoria and so on. I think most of the damage was structural but in a functional sense, rather than an organic one. My primary suspicion is that, in people with certain dissociative traits, similar to messing with the cannabinoid system it lulls an aspect of the mind to sleep and a lot of that machinery also falls into disuse and starts to wear down. This results in rapid and forced erosion of amnesia barriers, but it comes through in somatic / body memories rather than any cognitive recollection. Very unpleasant. I didn't go to any extremes either, maybe a gram every other day or two, 1.5 grams max. Took a year or two to rebuild the mind. So there were downsides given that I was not operating with clear intent, but I can also see how in people where the dissociative aspects are more a matter of "active" filtering systems that strip away and redirect certain things before they reach the conscious mind, or suppression of recall, that lulling this part of the mind into a state of passivity and (arguably false) security and apathy, could be net beneficial. In the right context. It doesn't appear to decrystallize the mind though. The only reliably means of rapidly doing this that I've found would be mixing alcohol and kava. Not suggesting anyone does this. I think norepinephrine / dopamine turnover, and a certain balance of the cannabinoid system and GABA, are doing something very key. Which is underappreciated. To add also, eg anandamide in chocolate (which may or may not be well absorbed) is fine for me, but something like marijuana is crippling and causes depression for several days after. Kava will also do this, but in a milder sense, and over a greater timescale. It is unfortunate that no one is looking at the role of oxytocin and the cannabinoid system in early development and modulation of behavior. Phenibut apparently blocks a certain class of VGCCs.
The lawyer I mentioned is Jonathan Emord. I thought he was once a professor at GWU but, apparently, he was a lecturer at Georgetown. My mistake. He has sued the FDA and won. That is not a mistake.
37:00 antipsychotics should be suspected in catatonia.
This was really interesting, and painful to listen to! So very pleased that things finally worked out in the end. I'm not sure if I missed something, but why was the daughter able to suddenly stop seroquel in the end, yet any previous attempts led to her not being able to sleep for days. Have I misunderstood?
Doc love following you but sound system needs a new over haul”” on all your videos 💥💥
Many psychiatrists seem to forget that the brain is attached to and affected by attacks to the whole body 🤷♀️
how can I contact you for an interview? any information would be appreciated
This reminds me, when i was a teenager i read about a kid that was accidentally given like 400mg of seroquel and the kid went into a state of declining Catatonia. They cooked this kids brain. Pretty wild.
Dr. Josef, why do you know & recognize things and tell patients all these things that other psychiatrists do not????
It's the other side of the main stream narrative, and as far as he and his guests are concerned is the truth.
Love knowledge compassion healing
@@dalefrank3713 I’m NOT anyone’s follower so I know it’s the truth.
I have dysautonomia that I have always suspected was long covid. I was put on 75mg Seroquel over a year and a half ago due to prescription of diazepam became adverse (8 weeks in). I have never presented with any form of delirium / psychosis / delusions etc. Just anxiety. I managed to reduce down from 10mg to 8mg diazepam and almost immediately became dizzy and unstable. That was over a year ago and I’ve had to hold ever since thinking it would get better, but it has got progressively worse. My GP said I risk psychosis if I come off Seroquel. Could it be causing my POTS like symptoms / tachycardia etc?
Unstable refers to physical instability btw. Would massively appreciate a response to this.
I had the same bad reaction to the benzodiazepine over a longer time. I only took one Seroquel pill though and figured it was not for me. I also had POTS like symptoms along with other dysautonomia symptoms. I believe all my damage is from the benzo. I am off all meds for a few years now. I am much better now but still cant tolerate exercise well. My symptoms are very much improved but not back to what I would call normal. I now feel safe standing in a shower at least, can stand long enough took cook meals and I can mow my lawn in one day (usually). Hopefully with time I will continue to improve but it's a slow progress. Seroquel scares the crap out of me because of it's link to diabetes and other health issues. I was not informed about this and found about it later. I am happy that I never gave it a chance. I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your reply. I had no informed consent (was forced to take despite knowing the risks - I was a public health specialist and did my research). I was given a sheet that said I could just come off anytime (that I knew was untrue). Wishing you continued healing, I doubt I’ll ever recover / be able to get off these meds. Thank you for your reply and BW
@@oldtc3615❤
Also the metabolic issues with quetiapine are certainly scary. What happened to Masterly Inactivity / Do No Harm? Who would ever prescribe this drug unless absolutely a last resort (ie short term for serious psychosis). The people who treat crazy’s are crazier 😂 Now that’s ironic!
Psychiatrists should be ones seeing psychiatrists. They’re all crazy.
Its about money for docs at this point
I am NOT pro pharma, but have seen many who benefitted from psychotropic meds, including Seroquel. It seems the theme here is to vilify all psychotrophics, and those who prescribe them. Agree a common side effect of Seroquel is severe drowsiness, but it usually subsides in a few days. Many who struggle with mania are also sleep deprived, so the initial drowsiness of Seroquel (and similar meds) is often of therapeutic benefit, since mania and insomnia are often a spiraling, positive feedback loop. I agree with caution in long term prescribing any psychotropic, but there's no one-size-fits-all approach. It's a balancing act, and the medical model's approach is often to foster dependency, which contrasts with psychotherapy, which is to promote autonomy ASAP. But again, it's a balancing act, and often therapy goes better when combined with meds (psycho-pharma-co-therapy), at least initially.
And nobody gets a sleep study...
You're pro pharma. You're just between worlds and can't yet reconcile all of what you've seen.
It's true, though - a lot of doctors will just prescribe patients with whatever will make drug companies the most money without actually caring about the patient themselves. Doctors who don't do that are like, 1/5. Just the other day, I fired a doctor because he kept changing how long it would take for me to finally feel a difference (initially, it was a few weeks; then it was a few months). I've seen doctors prescribe patients with opiates (extremely addictive) just for bladder infections. When I was growing up, the treatment for bladder infections were antibiotics. The whole industry is a profit-machine now.
Seroquel causes serious side effects, especially in the long term,. Long QT, diabetes, hypothyrodism, diabetes, increased cholestrol, sleep apbea, restless legs syndrome, supressed lung function, colon paralysis, electrolyte imbalanxe, cognitive decline, speech and memory problems, dysphaghia, dysphonia, movement disorders (incl akathisia), weight gain, lack of motivation & focis, anhedonia, causes tolerance, hallucinations, psychosis, rebound insomnia, rebound anxiety, histamine intolerance, hyperacusis, dementia.
Seroquel (like other APs) shrink the brain. This is not a mild drug. It is horrific it is precribed the way it is for sleep.
Boring
This is a conversation about the potential dangers of quetiapine. It's not for entertainment. If you want to be entertained, then go see a movie or watch Family Guy. Duh. 😵💫
if you don't like it change the channel
First episode psychosis treatment and drag on medication sounds familiar.
My son had PE from med …
Fever , chill , up the heat rate
No one take us seriously
The clot is