The Drugs don’t work
- bethanysfightforfr
- Oct 10, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 14, 2023
Beth has chronic anxiety, PTSD, AUTISM and a dauagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (that's another story)
She is given a cocktail of drugs which don't reduce episodes so are they necessary .....
PRN medication has been given without consent by injection when in crisis as a sedative.
Haloperidol is a medicine that helps with mental health conditions such as:
confusion and aggression at the end of life(palliative care)
feelings of agitation or anxiety
schizophrenia, where you may see, hear or feel things that are not there, believe things that are not true, feel unusually suspicious, or have muddled thoughts
the mania symptoms of bipolar disorder, where your mood changes from feeling highly excited (mania) to feeling very low (depression)
severe confusion and aggression in Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, if other treatments have not worked
It's also used as an anti-sickness medicine to treat:
feeling or being sick (nausea or vomiting) caused by general anaesthetics, used to put you to sleep for an operation
feeling or being sick at the end of life(palliative care)
It also treats some conditions that affect movement, such as severe Tourette's syndrome.
Haloperidol is an antipsychotic medicine that works by blocking certain types of nerve (neuron) activity in the brain. This can help with feelings of anxiety and other symptoms of mental health conditions. It also helps block activity in the area of the brain that controls feeling and being sick.
olanzapine
Olanzapine helps to manage symptoms of mental health conditions such as:
seeing, hearing, feeling or believing things that others do not, feeling unusually suspicious or having muddled thoughts (schizophrenia)
feeling agitated or hyperactive, very excited, elated, or impulsive (mania symptoms of bipolar disorder)
If you have bipolar disorder, olanzapine can also stop your mania symptoms coming back.
Olanzapine does not cure your condition, but it can help with your symptoms.
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