Posted by blueberry1 on December 13, 2006, at 18:30:07
In reply to Atypical antipsychotics as mood stabilizers?, posted by chess on December 13, 2006, at 10:28:38
I don't know. I'm not sure they do. They block whatever is going wrong but don't stop it from happening.
Antipsychotics don't prevent whatever is going wrong, they just block the end result of it. Whatever is going wrong is still going wrong, it is just blocked from feeling it so much. Lithium and depakote make an effort to fix whatever is actually going wrong and prevent a cascade effect from happening, where the antipsychotics just block you from feeling those cascade events, though they are still happening.
That's how I see it anyway.
Antipsychotics might be good for acutely stopping, well, not stopping, but blocking a manic episode very quickly. But I think they are prescribed too often when other time tested milder treatments should be tried first.
Just opinion.
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