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As far as I'm aware, no bipolar patient should be on narcotics. Standard of care is mood stabilizer plus atypical antipsychotic.

• tcj_phx 9y ago
  Investigative journalist Robert Whitaker wrote a book about how the medications commonly used in the psychiatric 'standard of care' actually seem to make the patients worse. Some psychiatrists wrote a response that can be summarized as, "shut up we know what we're doing." Whitaker responded to his critics with a blog post titled The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display - https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/05/the-evidence-based-mind-of-psychiatry-on-display/ https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/05/the-evidence-based-mind... Your comment here seemed to indicate that you're in the medical field, and indeed your comments from 3 months ago indicate that you're a medical student. Psychiatry needs help. None of the psychiatrists who've been treating my girlfriend are able to tell the difference between substance-associated/withdrawal psychosis, and iatrogenic psychosis, so they keep her on the drugs that actively prevent her from recovering. She was originally turned into a drug addict with depo provera, which is known to make women suicidal. This was about 10 years before I met her. Medicine is deeply infected with ideas which have actually been falsified by physiologists, but which persist because they're seductively simplistic. edit: Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al was published yesterday - https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/inconvenient-truths-about-antipsychotics-a-response-to-goff-et-al/ https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/inconvenient-truths-abo...