Posted by Christ_empowered on August 28, 2011, at 11:27:56
In reply to Re: Abilify for depression, posted by Phillipa on August 28, 2011, at 10:44:34
I think in psychiatry there's a tendency to prescribe based on whatever is being pushed by Big Pharma. For a while, it was benzos for everything, then SSRIs for everything, now its atypicals for everything.
Personally, I'm kind of worried about the heavy use of atypicals in mood disorders. I mean, I take mine for psychosis and I'm still concerned. What if in 10+ years we have people who originally presented with depression experiencing TD or other tardive syndromes? What about the weight gain and metabolic problems?
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