A fellow blogger asked this question recently, and it’s taken me a while to pull this post together because there just isn’t a simple answer as to why psych medications stop working out of the blue sometimes. There are various possibilities, but there’s also a hefty dose of science just doesn’t know yet. How the …
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Weight gain can be a difficult side effect for people taking antipsychotic medications. Not all drugs are equally likely to cause weight gain, and this post looks at the findings from a study published in 2020 in The Lancet Psychiatry that compared the potential for weight gain with different antipsychotics. The link between antipsychotics and …
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What do mental illness and sex have to do with each other? Â Quite a bit, actually, both in terms of the illness itself and the medications to treat it.
Society is obsessed with how we look, and in particular what size we are. Â Even people who are generally quite polite feel entitled to comment on our weight and body shape, without having any idea what the backstory might be. Â In the case of mental illness, there is often a great deal of backstory.
