Antipsychotics
 

I have a pretty big and troublesome issue, to be precise someone (I dont know who ) talked about my cognitive problems and anxiety to the generale physician, who in turn request a mandatory visit by a psichystrast.
The psychistrast is very ignorant and arrogant about the subject (He claims that is not possibile to be comcussed without losing consciousness or with out brain bleeding so my symptoms must be psychosomatic and alla in my Head ) and Now I am forced against my will to take antipsychotics drugs.( I live n italy by the way)
I was very happy because I had recovered in the Last few days, but now I have the terror to compromise my brain due to the drugs and the stress for the situation.
It is possibile for that kind if drugs to worsen my cognitive problem? What you suggest me to do about this situation?

Antipsychotics could most certainly make the damage worse. They are known to kill neurons by interfering with the mitochondria in the cell. Weakened neurons which are not dead could very well be killed by these neurotoxins. Antipsychotics themselves cause permanent brain damage with prolonged use. Avoid this at all costs, especially if you don't want to do it.

Just out of curiosity, how are you forced to take these drugs? If your doctor is incompetent you need to find a new one.

Hey Danielson, as a psychologist i am wondering which antypsychotic they gave you and why. There are several classes of antipsychotics so they have different effects. Did they give it to you for anxiety or did the doc think you were imagening the situation? Or was it for anotger specific symptom?

Idk about the laws in italy. Here a patient can only be forced when there are serious indications that he will hurt himself or others. And even then the request should be taken to a judge and assesed by a team of psychiatrists and psychologist so idk how they would force you so fast.

The antipsycothic is called abilify, how dangereous it is? How long can it take to do brain damage?
The reason is that they think that I am imagining this, and I suppose that I could hurt someone due to anxiety and outbursts.
I also find the thing absurd and didi not know it was possibile, could you please try to inform a bit about italian law in this regard?
I can't due to cognitive struggles.

Abilify is not one of the scarier anti-psychotics. Nobody can say how you will respond to it.

My doctor put me on Zyprexa for a short term to get past a high level of symptoms. No big deal.

-Which are the scariest ones?

-what kind of symptoms? Emotional/anxiety ones? Was it useful and didi it have side effects?

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I know but I have trouble reading long piece of text.

Abilify is ok. I find sulpiride much scarier. The thing with psychiatric medicine is that everone reacts different to it. You can try it and see if it has any side effects for you or not. For ex. I take mirtazapine for sleep. I don't have any side effects whatsoever and feel perfectly normal, but someone i know has terrible side effects from it. If you are worried i would suggest talking with your doctor. There are many other medicine that can help anxiety if you really don't want to take antipsychotics.

Also think for yourself. There is a different between needing medicine and not wanting medicine. I don't want sleep meds, but i need it. Do you feel that you are extremely anxious, why not try it. And it would probably be a good idea to talk to a psychologist if you really suffer from anxiety. Medicine help but in the long run you need to learn how to deal with it and a psychologist can help.

Btw if you are scared of potential brain damage from any medicine, this doesnt occur if you take it for a short term. Any medicine has the potential to do harm if you take it forever in high doses. So you should be fine with just trying.

Stay strong!

I'm forced to take antipsychotics against my will and also potentially against my well being unfortunately, that's the atrocious law here where I live.
I have not experienced thinking problems like the ones of my PCS, but I suffer from side effects like restlessness and severe difficulty concentrating.
By the way, why do you think that Abilify is okay unlike other antipsychotics?

Sorry for being annonying with my countless questions, but what do you mean by short term?
A matter of weeks, months or years is necessary to do brain damage, especially to a sensitive brain like a PCS one?