Comments on: An introduction to psychiatric medication

By: dillon

dillon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:32:32 +0000

Thank you for the wonderful article on drugs. It helped me for revising, just like USMLE book

By: stamo petard

stamo petard — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:14:15 +0000

Medicine itself is very behind from the other sciences. Psychiatry is at its infancy. So these comparisons with blackberry and touchpads are very naive. As long as people with cancer are dying despite the huge medical efforts, is a further indication that there is no cure, at least at the present. If someone heals, they are lucky, that’s all.

And i feel very sorry because the potential for agranulocytosis from Mirtazapine is the same as that of clozapine. The same applies to TCA-s.
Anyone with a little logic can realize that any drug which suppresses the immune system via the histamine blockage can predispose people to carcinogenicity.

This is not honest practice. Mirtazapine is a newer drug and they need to sell it, so they say it has no side effects (very few). Any psychiatrist who recommends Mirtazapine and is aware of its toxicity, is no more different than a criminal.

By: wally

wally — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:07:43 +0000

Rmazz, Here are some facts. Many people have cured cancer without chemo or radiation. It’s called natural healing. Haven’t you heard about Dr. Lorraine Day? And her huge breast tumor, due to invasive cancer which she cured after it was removed surgically, with lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, water, sun and exercise. If the body is returned to health, it should heal itself. Unless maybe the disease is caught too late.

By: Rmazz

Rmazz — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:53:09 +0000

What people need to realize is that the study of mental illnesses is a young science. Less than 200 years old. The brain is such a complex organ. It’s not as simple to figure out as the muscles or the heart. The brain and the body are WAY different than computers. And cancer is a mutated gene, by the way. It can adapt to survive medication. And the only medication that can eliminate cancer, is chemo and radiation. They both are very toxic, in case you didn’t know that either. How do you fight against something that has the ability to adapt and mutate to every drug that can be used against it?
Before you make a statement like that, learn your facts.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:21:20 +0000

Hi, Once the dopamine receptors are blocked how long does it take for them to clear after stopping medication?

By: wally

wally — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:52:43 +0000

I believe that in most cases involving physical deficiencies and imbalances, like my sister’s, combining natural therapies with the drugs may be the only answer. Several months ago, my sister went into another of her schizoaffective disorder-related relapses. Deciding that this would be a good opportunity to try something different, and wanting to grant her wishes to get off the drugs, I began tapering her off her anti-psych meds, that were giving her negative side-effects, and at the same time, started her on herbal therapies. After the tapering was over, I began with the detox vitamins and Omega-3. She improved every day for about 5 weeks, and then crashed. Within two days after nosediving, she was almost catatonic. She wouldn’t eat, or take her vitamins and herbs, or even get out of bed. The paramedics had to come and haul her away. The anti-psych meds had finally left her system. She was admitted to the hospital, and within only two weeks, stabilized on her old anti-psych’s, she left the hospital. (They took her off the herbs and vitamins while in the hospital). I’m pretty sure, had she not been put back on the antipsychs, that she would have lapsed into complete catatonia. Well, now she has a naturopath, and it was found that she is gluten-intolerant and dairy-sensitive. So all these years she has been eating foods she’s allergic to! She’s feeling much better, now, with the new diet, and vitamin/herb therapies. Combined with the pharmaceuticals, (the side-effects from which have subsided). This is the way I should have done it from the beginning, (actually I should have consulted a naturopath right then). So in this situation, I believe there is a place for prescription drugs. There are even pharmacies, now, that sell combination-therapy products.

By: Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier Psychiatrist — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:53:48 +0000

Whatever. Check out Mitchell and Webb's homeopathic A&E sketch

By: cbwealthformula

cbwealthformula — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:30:53 +0000

I honestly dont believe in any of this. I really believe people have thepower to heal themselves. After 100+ years of cancer research you mean to tell me theres still not a cure? Come on. They can take a computer that used to be the size of an entire room and make a blackberry now, but they havent advanced at all with medicine? B.S.