SCHIZOPHRENIA

DRUGS

This is one reason I prefer Psychology over Psychiatry, Psychologist don't prescribe medications. When ever you start using Anti-psychotic drugs on a person, you are altering the functioning of that person's brain, sometimes permanently. So, great care must be taken when starting out using medication to treat mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. These drugs also have some major side effects. One is Tardive dyskinesia.

Accordingn to Wikipeida, an online encyclopeida online, Tardive dyskinesia is:

is a serious neurological disorder caused by the long-term and/or high-dose use of dopamine antagonists, usually antipsychotics and among them especially the typical antipsychotics.

So, Doctors need to closely monitor patients on anti-psychotic drugs to prevent such things from occuring and not rush into high doses of these drugs right off the bat.