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yeah but antipsychotics severely retard every mental process and have a high risk of permanent motor and intellectual disability (it really sucks to have tardiv
by grapist420 5y ago
yeah but antipsychotics severely retard every mental process and have a high risk of permanent motor and intellectual disability (it really sucks to have tardive dyskinesia). There’s absolutely no reason that should be prescribed. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight Freddie explains it in this article - he deems it worth it for him to be able to keep a job and friends, but it is in no way called for for random old folks to be disabled like that to make them easier to handle
- robbiep 5y agoIt’s actually tardive dyskinesia (I assume you may have thought that the tardative stems from retarded as in intellectual disability). As far as I am aware, this movement disorder does not have any causal relationship with intellectual disability. I agree with the principle behind your other points though, in an ideal world we would not prescribe these medications to the elderly to ‘aid in management’
- grapist420 5y agowhoops. Looks like tardive actually refers to it developing late in the course of treatment, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive and dyskinesia refers to the actual disorder of movement