April 24

[mommysquad]

Hey nonas!



If you were an evil sexy villain, how would you take over the world?

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tw meds

[tnganon]

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america/201102/andreasen-drops-bombshell-antipsychotics-shrink-the-brain

In this study, Andreasen took periodic MRI scans of 211 schizophrenia patients treated from seven years to 14 years. She found that long-term use of the old standard antipsychotics, the new atypical antipsycotics, and clozapine are all "associated with smaller brain tissue volumes."

Moreover, she found that this shrinkage was dose related. The more drug a person is given, the greater the "association with "smaller grey matter volumes," she reported. Similarly, the "progressive decrement in white matter volume was most evident among patients who received more antipsychotic treatment." Finally, Andreasen reported that this shrinkage "occurs independent of illness severity and substance abuse." Those two factors--illness severity and substance abuse--had "minimal or no effects" on brain volumes.


i rly hope they do more research on this and it's proven wrong bc :(

Re: tw meds

[(Anonymous)]

oh god, one more think i can ad to my rant when people go off about schizophrenia patients not taking their meds.

i don't have it i just try to educate people, it is weird they'll listen more to what i have to say about other mi's then my own

Re: tw meds

[tnganon]

idk i think ppl also have a thing about psychosis where if u have it ppl think of u as legit psychotic 100% of the time

so then they don't listen to u about shit

but there's also a kind of legitimacy that people perceive when you talk about shit you don't have, partly bc of the doctors know better than you attitude and partly bc ppl think not having experience with something makes u ~unbiased~ (see dudes on sexism)

Re: tw meds

[(Anonymous)]

i hope this turns out to be false as well

the whole well if you have it you are biased thing is so frustrating, like wouldn't i be biased in favor of the truth?

Re: tw meds

[tnganon]

also i just straight up don't want my brain to shrink so i hope this is proved wrong let me hope :(

Re: tw meds

[(Anonymous)]

bb, i'm sure your brain is fine <33