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Psychiatric agents are drugs used for mental health, depression and psychosis.
Dr. Jeffrey Pollard reviewed this
23 year experience in ENT and Head and Neck Surgery
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A 24-year old male asked:
Why are psychiatric drugs prescribed if peoplee are afraid of chemical lobotomy?
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A 20-year old male asked:
How can I reduce my nighttime anxiety (somniphobia) without taking psychiatric drugs?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Why do I feel pissed off whenever i exercise? Its supposed to make relaxed like it did in the past before i took and stopped any psychiatric drug.
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A 25-year old male asked:
If one took many psychiatric drugs that interfered with sleep can one eventually return to normal sleep patterns immediatelyafter all drugs are gone?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Can the occult take over you once you take psychiatric drugs?
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A 44-year old asked:
Please describe the top five most commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Is hydroxyzine considered a psychiatric drug?
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A 44-year old asked:
Does every psychiatric drug mimic a neurotransmitter?
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A 37-year old asked:
How long should anti-psychiatric drugs like haldol (haloperidol) be used?
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A 39-year old asked:
How is possible that general practitioners are allowed to prescribe psychiatric drugs?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Which is the most effective way to regulate my sleep beside from psychiatric drugs, after my night shifts?
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A 46-year old asked:
Could i get the feeling of being anally penetrated while taking geodon (ziprasidone) or other psychiatric drugs?
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A 45-year old asked:
Which are some of the psychiatric drugs that have amphetamine-like effects?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Do psychiatric drugs affect speech? I can't find the words stuttering and developing a lisp. All after years in psych meds. Didn't have these before
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A 28-year old female asked:
Can/do psychiatric drugs make you feel tired all the time(ex:lyrica and alprazolam)?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Lately psychiatric drugs are causing me akthasia. When i didn't have this problem before. Why? Do stimulants ADHD pills cause akthasia?
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A 37-year old asked:
Which psychiatric drugs have been shown to cause the most birth defects?
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A 19-year old asked:
Do you psychiatrists actually know for sure how psychiatric drugs effect brain chemicals? Or is it just speculation?
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A 29-year old male asked:
After I stopped geodon zyprexa & many other sedating psychiatric drugs I can no longer sleep more than 4 hours per night. How can I sleep more? Will I
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A 28-year old male asked:
Do any psychiatric drugs result in a loss of intelligence? i took phenibut and experienced something like i forgot how to do math and poor memory
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A 25-year old male asked:
Do any psychiatric drugs or their withdrawals lead to arrythmias or to the development of sleep apnea or is this neuromuscular or a different issue?
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A 57-year old female asked:
What is the psychiatric drug with the least....Side effects. I am very sensitive to drugs. I have anxiety depression, fibro, and other chronic pain?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Do mental illness exist? Saw various documentaries that psychiatry and psychiatric drugs are all fraud? Planned to visit psychiatrist but now confused
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A 25-year old male asked:
Pulled an all nightet after Bikram yogaended at ten. Tried to sleep but my brain would notfall asleep. Happens often. Brain psychiatric drug withdrawa
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A 30-year old male asked:
Can a prescribing psychologist prescribe cogentin along with Haldol (haloperidol) since it is not cogentin is not specifically a "psychiatric drug"?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Could tongue fasciculations,arm tremors,depression be a sign of Wilson's disease? Does long term use of psychiatric drugs cause Wilson's disease ?
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A 44-year old male asked:
About three years ago I was given a psychiatric drug called vraylar. Which I ha a bad reaction to. My psychiatrist gave me Ativan to counter act the feeling. Ever since then I have giant gaps in my memory. Is there hope for me?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Thought i was going to die during Bikram yoga. Cant breathe, nausea. I think from psychiatric drug withdrawal over 7 weeks effects.Geodon, (ziprasidone) celexa, et
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A 27-year old male asked:
Do psychiatric drugs enlarge the basal ganglia and atrophy the cerebral cortex. do cause brain damage? I have lingering akathisia from invega (paliperidone) shot
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A 25-year old male asked:
Is there a reason why people have so many complaints about psychiatric medication on online forums and websites. Are these drugs designed to heal you?
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