Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
by beenBoutIT on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:14PM
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It should be a last resort for people who have been thoroughly screened by MDs and neurologists. According to sleep experts at Stanford at least 25% of people with ADHD/ADD are narcoleptics who've been misdiagnosed. That's a shitload of people who are currently living suboptimal lives because they went to a psychiatrist prior to being evaluated by a neurologist.
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Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
by penagwin on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:05PM
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Might not be the best example, as narcolepsy is usually treated with stimulants and antidepressants, so adding say ritalin may still improve symptoms regardless of if it's actual ADD/ADHD or narcolepsy
Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
by beenBoutIT on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:00PM
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In this case psychiatry covers up the symptoms with stimulants (that further degrade sleep) while neurology can effectively fix the bad sleep. Psychiatry provides a poorly fitting bandage while neurology has something on par with a cure. There's no better example that I'm aware of.
Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
by Gibbon1 on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:39PM
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A good example is everyone I know with hypothyroidism, five out of five were put on a variety of psychiatric drugs for years before being properly diagnosed.
Frankly I think MD's shouldn't be allowed to prescribe psychiatric drugs period.
Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
by nerdponx on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:05PM
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How about my friend, whose "bipolar" disappeared when they got a positive test result for celiac and stopped eating gluten? Or myself for that matter, whose problems with sleep, gait, muscle weakness, mood instability, and difficulty paying attention all more or less evaporated when I went gluten free after my own celiac diagnosis?
These weren't quack diagnoses either. We both saw traditional gastroenterologists, in different states, several years apart, both of us seeking treatment for different things. My diagnosis was confirmed with blood and endoscopy, as well as a follow-up DNA test to make sure I had the right mutation that makes it possible for celiac to arise.