Psychiatric Meds Blog
The Clinical & Forensic Psychology Practice of Dr. Glen Skoler
DrGlenSkoler@Gmail.com • (240) 605-2988
This blog takes a critical look, based on two decades of experience, at the growing controversies and data concerning the true effectiveness, and side effects, of common psychiatric medications, as well as the pressure managed care health insurance companies place on patients to treat their psychological problems with psychiatric medications.
All blog entries: © Dr. Glen Skoler, 2010, all rights reserved.
About this Blog
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Warning:
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•Many psychiatric medications are powerful drugs directly affecting the nerve cells or neurons in the brain, and possibly creating physical and/or emotional dependence.
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•Suddenly stopping, reducing or changing the dosages of certain psychiatric medications, without medical supervision, could result in mild to severe side effects, depending on the drug and dosage, including serious psychiatric and physical distress, increased risk of seizures, psychotic episodes, & homicidal or suicidal thoughts.
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•Psychiatric medications should therefore only be stopped, reduced or changed under medical supervision.
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•Please read the “Introduction” entry to this blog before reading other entries.
Glen D. Skoler, Ph.D.
Email: DrGlenSkoler@gmail.com
Phone: 240-605-2988
The DSM-5 &
Medication Decisions
Two other blogs on this website, the “Attorney Blog” and the “Therapy & Diagnosis Blog,” discuss controversies about the the DSM-5, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association.
Not surprisingly, this psychiatric diagnostic manual contains criteria that easily “fit” millions of people and which are used to justify the prescribing of psychiatric medications. Often these diagnostic criteria will be reviewed with a patient in a matter of minutes as the “evidence” they he or she has a “biochemical imbalance” requiring medication.
Warning:
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•Many psychiatric medications are powerful drugs directly affecting the nerve cells or neurons in the brain, and possibly creating physical and/or emotional dependence.
-
•Suddenly stopping, reducing or changing the dosages of certain psychiatric medications, without medical supervision, could result in mild to severe side effects depending on the drug and dosage, including serious psychiatric and physical distress, increased risk of seizures, psychotic episodes, & homicidal or suicidal thoughts.
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•Psychiatric medications should therefore only be stopped, reduced or changed under medical supervision.
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•Please read the “Introduction” entry to this blog before reading other entries.
