Patients with psychiatric illness often experience a 'merry-go-round' of medications with increasing side effects including weight gain, diabetes, and mitochondrial toxicity. — Whalespan
Patients with psychiatric illness often experience a 'merry-go-round' of medications with increasing side effects including weight gain, diabetes, and mitochondrial toxicity.
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“Brett got put on mood stabilizers like Tuda or well I should say he got put on mood stabilizers like laml and then he got put on antis psychotics like aiol which is Abilify he was on a combination medication which is symc which is fluoxitine and Al lanzapine alapine is an antic psychotic medication antic psychotic medications can cause people to gain tons of weight they're mitochondrial toxins and then he was also on copine which is Seroquel it's another antis psychotic medication so what happens in people with bad depression like what Brett had we would call it you know intractable depression or untreatable depression is they just get through this series of medications and the side effects get worse and worse and they get on more and more severe medications in terms of side effects many of which cause diabetes they cause obesity the an psychotic medications are well”
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