New doctor, new diagnosis...

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Well, I just don't see how a med can inhibit some synapses and not others. If you inject it locally, then maybe. But if you take it by mouth, I just don't see how it is physically possible.

And, besides, every synapse in the brain is there for a reason. Even hindering them selectively is a bad idea too.

The problem is not that they function too much. The problem is that they function in the wrong direction. So, instead of inhibitting the brain, why not use its excitability for something good. If they are too excited, great, maybe they will win running competition, or maybe they will come up with some fantastic discovery nobody else have thought of. The problem, of course, is that they use it wrongly. Well, then TEACH them not to use it wrongly instead of inhibitting it by meds.

Lexapro is an example of one of the more modern anti-anxiety meds that have fewer side effects that older medications.

The difference is that physical health is objective while mental health is subjective. I am surprised why aspies -- despite all their complaints of NT-s misunderstanding them -- don't realize this. The way NT-s misjudge aspies is very similar to the way "mentally healthy" people misjudge "mentally ill". And then the supposed mentally ill buy into it since they were told about it too much and too often.

I realize that SOME mental illnesses ARE objective, as in, it causes distress to the person even without any outside influence. But then there is another problem. When you have meds that treat physical things, these meds target something specific. Like the med for cold has nothing to do with the med for blood pressure. But when you are talking about psychiatric meds, they can't target some specific brain function, rather they inhibit it as a whole. Is there a med that would SPECIFICALLY help you get over the divorce? Nope. There is just med that would dissensitize you to your emotions in general and -- as a consequence of being dissensitized -- you will ALSO get over the divorce. Well, thats why its bad. I don't want the general brain function to be stopped just because of one specific issue.

But thats not what she is taking. She said she is taking antipsychotic. So maybe she should switch from antipsychotic to Laxapro.

I am not saying Laxapro is a good thing. I would prefer if she were to just get off meds altogether. But since its too scary and too unpredictable, maybe she can do an "intermediate step" and switch to Laxapro. And if that step works out then maybe she can try to get off of it as a next step.

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Please don’t derail threads to push uninformed quackery. If you want to learn about neurology, pharmacology, or psychiatry then start a new thread or use the internet to access remote learning resources.

I wasn't "derailing" the thread. She said in the OP that her doctor took her off one of the meds and she disagreed with it. So the topic "to take or not to take meds" was there in the OP.