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>chlorpromazine... enabled the demonstration that biochemicals such as neurotransmitters are involved in mental disorders It does no such thing. This drug, and
by astazangasta 8y ago
>chlorpromazine... enabled the demonstration that biochemicals such as neurotransmitters are involved in mental disorders
It does no such thing. This drug, and most antipsychotics, simply shuts down the forebrain. It "treats" psychosis by shutting off your mental function. As soon as you remove the drug (go "off your meds" because you want to think and feel again), psychosis resumes. This tells us nothing about the nature of psychosis.
- tokai 8y agoIt seems to me that antipsychotics are too often used as medicinal straitjackets. They are indispensable in stopping acute psychosis, but they don't treat anything.
- soup10 8y agoThey are rightly called major tranquilizers, "antipsychotics" is relatively new marketing that oversells them as a cure rather than a bandaid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic