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Halving or stopping meds often leads to…nothing, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some withdrawal or recurrence. Each step of the way in medication management requires patience.
New expensive meds gets lots of praise, old cheap meds commonly get a bad rap. How should we think? Carefully. Look at data with a discerning eye, see what entities stand to benefit or loose, that usually is the best hint.
How to evaluate research? Just read the abstract? Don’t look at the funding or who can gain profit? Don’t read related papers? Don’t see the methods? Don’t see if the authors are related to the publication? If you said yes to these then take a course in evaluating research.
What medications are the "best"? Efficacy, safety, metabolism, dose, social & physical environment, medical illness, family history...besides a few to avoid at all costs, at the end of the day it's largely trial and error.
When mood is up people tend to stop mood medications, when down they restart. Life can be a continual cycle of mild misery, worse misery, and improvement. The number of total years in bad shape can be debilitating.
Drugs need time to work, too many persons aren't patient enough to wait and give up. Sometimes persons will even run into getting treatments that are un- or poorly proven, leading to a disaster. Proper degree of patience is the answer!
Many psychiatric patients are on a cycle of taking and stopping their meds, why? They don't want to accept being sick so they try to stop, the med is still in them they feel better so they conclude they are better...until they crash, and repeat the cycle.
Tolerance to a drug? Yes common, especially in the CNS where nerves need to adapt to changing environments and protect the brain quickly. This makes CNS drugs loose effects. The remedy is pulse dosing, rotations, and adaptive changes.
Personal disaster after disaster can cause people to give up faced with further stresses and disaster, the challenge is to break this cycle. Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg
Many patients dislike medication, they will decline increasing current medication even if they got good help from the current dose but are still have symptoms, it’s easy to forget that a little more is probably the answer. Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg
What is the best way to stay mentally healthy? Have friends, talk to people, do exercise, have love, do interesting things. Answer, work on all of them! Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mUflN, https://t.co/urVpIxQD7G
“Many patients have depression”, True? Low moods are common but who is “ill” with depression, just has stress, or has something else? We can only "guess” & treat because psychiatric diagnoses are actually unprovable. Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg
“Interminable” that’s the only way to describe the way certain couples fight. Each side magically thinks the other will agree with them someday The answer is: how do you want to spend your short time on the earth? Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg
Acne is common, not knowing how to treat it is more common. First, skin needs to breathe! To let it breathe, wash frequently, use acne creams, some people need antibiotics, & be sure to change masks frequently.. Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mUflN, https://t.co/urVpIxQD7G
Friends change, w/kids or w/o becomes a big distance, afraid or not to go out becomes a big distance. What to do? Change your expectation and take a crisis as an opportunity, this is called “crisitunity”. Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg
What keeps people from finding romance? Lack of confidence, finds it troublesome, fear of rejection. In most people something eventually sparks, but not all… Us: https://t.co/W6SS4mCEuf, https://t.co/urVpIy8ewg