> by thoroughly ruling out other causes of schizophrenia.
This never happens. "thoroughly" never happens. There are many examples of this. Recently a woman who was in psychiatric care fro over 20 years was finally diagnosed with Lupus (NPSLE) and cured.
They did not thoroughly do anything for me. I had to figure it out for myself.
> people largely see benefits from medication
I have a friend with depression and they had her on two adrenal receptor inhibitors (trazadone and risperidone) and she only got worse. They they went to ECT. She had severely constipation (treated with yet another drug, Linzess) and hypotension as well. They they started her on ECT, which did not work and she lost some memory.
The doctors failed to see that adrenal blockers could be causing her depression. I showed her the science, she asked her doc to stop those meds. She she no longer depressed nor has hypotension or consipation. And now she is angry.
They diagnosed her with schizophernia after they started her on antidepressants 25 years ago.
I am not saying medication are not sometimes useful, but I cannot count the times I have seen patients get worse on psych meds.
> He met with a psychiatrist who tried increasing his anti-seizure meds, which resolved what was likely a recurrent partial seizure.
You are still in med school so I hope you learn more. Anti Seizure meds have been the go to for these disorders fro years. They put me on depakote for my modo disorder 20 years ago.
> Psychiatry is not even close to the most profitable area of American healthcare.
Psych pharm businesses are very profitable though, and that is what we are talking about here.
> Trust me, if there was a way to permanently cure a psychiatric disease with one procedure or pill, we would all be in favor of it.
There is not pill, but there is a method. It is called Personalized Medicine.
And by the way KaRXT is not going to work. You should learn about receptor density changes when people take these receptor modulating drugs. This is why they always fail. There are better ways to manage the glutamate/GABA balance if that is the persons issue which it many cases it may not be, or may not be the fundamental problem. And if the acetylcholine is the problem in schizophrenia, why does M1 and M4 receptor in the body have bad side effects but whil in the brain it is good?
I will tell you why, they are using this drug to sedate the patient, not treat the patient.
This never happens. "thoroughly" never happens. There are many examples of this. Recently a woman who was in psychiatric care fro over 20 years was finally diagnosed with Lupus (NPSLE) and cured.
They did not thoroughly do anything for me. I had to figure it out for myself.
> people largely see benefits from medication
I have a friend with depression and they had her on two adrenal receptor inhibitors (trazadone and risperidone) and she only got worse. They they went to ECT. She had severely constipation (treated with yet another drug, Linzess) and hypotension as well. They they started her on ECT, which did not work and she lost some memory.
The doctors failed to see that adrenal blockers could be causing her depression. I showed her the science, she asked her doc to stop those meds. She she no longer depressed nor has hypotension or consipation. And now she is angry.
They diagnosed her with schizophernia after they started her on antidepressants 25 years ago.
I am not saying medication are not sometimes useful, but I cannot count the times I have seen patients get worse on psych meds.
> He met with a psychiatrist who tried increasing his anti-seizure meds, which resolved what was likely a recurrent partial seizure.
You are still in med school so I hope you learn more. Anti Seizure meds have been the go to for these disorders fro years. They put me on depakote for my modo disorder 20 years ago.
> Psychiatry is not even close to the most profitable area of American healthcare.
Psych pharm businesses are very profitable though, and that is what we are talking about here.
> Trust me, if there was a way to permanently cure a psychiatric disease with one procedure or pill, we would all be in favor of it.
There is not pill, but there is a method. It is called Personalized Medicine.
And by the way KaRXT is not going to work. You should learn about receptor density changes when people take these receptor modulating drugs. This is why they always fail. There are better ways to manage the glutamate/GABA balance if that is the persons issue which it many cases it may not be, or may not be the fundamental problem. And if the acetylcholine is the problem in schizophrenia, why does M1 and M4 receptor in the body have bad side effects but whil in the brain it is good?
I will tell you why, they are using this drug to sedate the patient, not treat the patient.