Posted by Lou Pilder on May 10, 2012, at 15:51:05
In reply to Re: Is the world finally waking up...., posted by Dinah on May 9, 2012, at 9:59:50
> I too think side effects have been under-appreciated. Unfortunately negative bias by medical personnel may lead self reports of mental health patients to be discounted. Not that I give that much more credit to the sensitivity of doctors to other groups of patients....
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> The side effects of medications are too often thought to be all in our minds, while the positive effects aren't considered placebo effects. Maybe that's changing as more patient reports are coming to be recognized as truth. Remember when the sexual side effects of SSRI's were thought to be rare? I think that may have been within the period of time I've been posting here.
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> On the other hand, I don't see why long term use of a maintenance medication should be considered a bad thing if it's working at least to some extent, with tolerable side effects. Illnesses might be able to be treated short term. Surely conditions can't be.
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> I have seen too much pain caused by unmedicated mental illness to have any objection to long term medications. In every case, benefits and risks should be weighed.
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> On the other hand, I firmly support an objection to unsafe medications and medications unwisely prescribed. My experience with GP's on non-mental health issues does not lead me to believe that this is limited to psych meds. A GP once wanted to prescribe narcotics to me for migraines, without even looking first at triptans!!!Dinah,
You wrote[...I firmly support an objection to unsafe medications...].
I am unsure as to what you are wanting to mean here. If you could post answers to the following, then I could have the opportunity to respond accordingly.
A. What criteria do you use to designate a medication as {unsafe]?
B. In your opinion, are all psychiatric drugs either safe or unsafe?
C. In a safe psychiatric medication, that is determined by you, could that same medication cause {sudden death} in another person taken as directed?
D. If a psychiatric drug could cause tardive dyskinesia, could that drug be a safe drug according to your criteria?
E. If a psychiatric medication could caue one to go into a withdrawal syndrome if dicontinued, could that drug be a {safe} medication?
F. If a pychiatric drug that you conider to be afe could caue a heart attack, could that drug be a safe medication?
G. If a child is given (redacted by repondent)
Lou
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