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We need better, safer, anti-psychotic medication. We need better, more effective, treatment for entrenched eating disorder. We need better treatments for trea
by DanBC 7y ago
We need better, safer, anti-psychotic medication.
We need better, more effective, treatment for entrenched eating disorder.
We need better treatments for treatment-resistant depression or anxiety disorders.
- penagwin 7y agoThis. Currently most mental health medicine is like throwing darts in the dark. We clearly don't actually understand why some medications work for some people but not others. If you go through the medicine path then I can only wish you the best of luck - finding the right medicine is life changing but it's a long arduous struggle to find it currently. Not to mention the side effects...
- dodobirdlord 7y ago> We clearly don't actually understand why some medications work for some people but not others. There are plenty of psychoactive drugs where we have no understanding of why they work at all. Lithium is one of the oldest, most successful, and best known medications for bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia, and we have no idea which of the many effects it has on the body actually contribute to stabilizing mood.
- xorfish 7y agoPsychedelics and mdma seem to be very promising in this area.