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re: my medication guide 101 email
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:17 amThis post has ALL COMMENTS SCREENED, which means if you reply to it only I will see your reply. I need to make sure that's stressed first off, considering the nature of this post.
I've been writing a psychiatric treatment guide for awhile. This is being finished TODAY. There are three people I am aware want it, but I want to post about this to A: see if anyone else needs it and B: make sure those who are receiving it are getting everything they want from it.
This is basically me putting together all the research I've done on medications and treatments and disorders and all that. I've done research both for myself and on what my friends go through. I'VE DONE RESEARCH ON A LOT OF SHIT. Also my mom was trained as a pharmacist and my sister is studying to be a pharmacist so I've got a lot of stuff people don't usually get access to. I've been doing this for a few people for awhile because it's really hard to do the research when it masses up so much.
A) if you are receiving this, please comment with the email I am supposed to send it to. If you have not already asked for it, but you want it, please do the same thing.
B) Please tell me if I'm missing anything you want on it.
PLEASE NOTE: no matter what I send, despite all the research I've done, I AM NOT A DOCTOR. This will not be written so as to replace a doctor. It's written so that you are more informed in what you can talk with your doctor about and so you can have a little more idea what's going on.
Right now, it specifically covers:
benzos, if you should take it and the benefits therein, as well as why so many people are going off of these, the safe way to take it and the safe way to go off of it, how overdoses affect you later on and what withdrawal syndrome is going to do to you. I'm heavily against benzos but I'm making sure to make this section as impartial as possible. However for this I am going to include all my reading sources in case I don't quite achieve that, because I am really against any use of benzos.
pediatric treatment and how things change for it
irreversible vs reversible medications and what these terms actually mean, because this is one of the most misunderstood things of psychiatric medication.
the affects of dopamine
the affects of norepinephrine
why or why not you might want a MAOI
hotlines to call/etc
medications for psychosis
learning disability medications
treatment options for bipolar and its various spectrums
treating certain physical problems while still treating psychiatric and vica versa. Right now this section is diabetes, heart problems, respiratory disorders, allergies, migraines and reproductive disorders. and then just this topic in general. I know there needs to be more specifics, so. Please tell me what you want to treat w/out getting fucked up!
Steroids vs psychiatry
Brain damage, how it happens, how to cope with it and what treatments may help you.
Medication delivery methods and why you might want any particular one.
A lot of specific meds are covered in this, enough that I can't list them all. If you want to make sure a med is on this (psychiatric, physical, whatever) then comment with it.
Hallucinations
Anxiety disorders
Non-medication treatment options: which may carry benefit for you and the pros and cons of each. Also the differences between DBT and CBT, because this is one of the least understood things for a patient. I am writing this from a minority perspective, that being someone who failed DBT and prefers CBT. A lot of people aren't like that. So for this I'm including research links too.
Haldol, thorazine, other things like this that are old and little known but frequently prescribed in an inpatient setting. YOU NEED TO BE INFORMED ON THESE. If you don't get it from me, you need to get it from somewhere else. Otherwise you could really get your shit fucked up.
Insomnia treatment options.
Things I CANNOT cover:
epilepsy. Sorry. I just can't do it. There's no way I could, it's way too complicated, especially versus everything that's already there.
Okay? Let me know!
I've been writing a psychiatric treatment guide for awhile. This is being finished TODAY. There are three people I am aware want it, but I want to post about this to A: see if anyone else needs it and B: make sure those who are receiving it are getting everything they want from it.
This is basically me putting together all the research I've done on medications and treatments and disorders and all that. I've done research both for myself and on what my friends go through. I'VE DONE RESEARCH ON A LOT OF SHIT. Also my mom was trained as a pharmacist and my sister is studying to be a pharmacist so I've got a lot of stuff people don't usually get access to. I've been doing this for a few people for awhile because it's really hard to do the research when it masses up so much.
A) if you are receiving this, please comment with the email I am supposed to send it to. If you have not already asked for it, but you want it, please do the same thing.
B) Please tell me if I'm missing anything you want on it.
PLEASE NOTE: no matter what I send, despite all the research I've done, I AM NOT A DOCTOR. This will not be written so as to replace a doctor. It's written so that you are more informed in what you can talk with your doctor about and so you can have a little more idea what's going on.
Right now, it specifically covers:
benzos, if you should take it and the benefits therein, as well as why so many people are going off of these, the safe way to take it and the safe way to go off of it, how overdoses affect you later on and what withdrawal syndrome is going to do to you. I'm heavily against benzos but I'm making sure to make this section as impartial as possible. However for this I am going to include all my reading sources in case I don't quite achieve that, because I am really against any use of benzos.
pediatric treatment and how things change for it
irreversible vs reversible medications and what these terms actually mean, because this is one of the most misunderstood things of psychiatric medication.
the affects of dopamine
the affects of norepinephrine
why or why not you might want a MAOI
hotlines to call/etc
medications for psychosis
learning disability medications
treatment options for bipolar and its various spectrums
treating certain physical problems while still treating psychiatric and vica versa. Right now this section is diabetes, heart problems, respiratory disorders, allergies, migraines and reproductive disorders. and then just this topic in general. I know there needs to be more specifics, so. Please tell me what you want to treat w/out getting fucked up!
Steroids vs psychiatry
Brain damage, how it happens, how to cope with it and what treatments may help you.
Medication delivery methods and why you might want any particular one.
A lot of specific meds are covered in this, enough that I can't list them all. If you want to make sure a med is on this (psychiatric, physical, whatever) then comment with it.
Hallucinations
Anxiety disorders
Non-medication treatment options: which may carry benefit for you and the pros and cons of each. Also the differences between DBT and CBT, because this is one of the least understood things for a patient. I am writing this from a minority perspective, that being someone who failed DBT and prefers CBT. A lot of people aren't like that. So for this I'm including research links too.
Haldol, thorazine, other things like this that are old and little known but frequently prescribed in an inpatient setting. YOU NEED TO BE INFORMED ON THESE. If you don't get it from me, you need to get it from somewhere else. Otherwise you could really get your shit fucked up.
Insomnia treatment options.
Things I CANNOT cover:
epilepsy. Sorry. I just can't do it. There's no way I could, it's way too complicated, especially versus everything that's already there.
Okay? Let me know!
