your bad news link about antipsychotics and brain shrinkage is bad....

your bad news link about antipsychotics and brain shrinkage is bad....meaning it doesn't work!

the url for the nature.com article on antipsychotics and brain shrinkage doesn't seem to be working.

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AstraZeneca and a researcher in Texas have filed a patent application for curing cocaine addiction by using Seroquel

That's great and all, but then what do you take for the seroquel addiction?

I'm not sure seroquel is as safe as cocaine;

is there supposed to be someone who is not helped by regular sleep routines?;

the good news is the bad news about brain shrinkiage is being reported more and more;

Grohol is right as is CL Psych;

and most importantly, double hell yes, Led Zepplin should tour.

I may get transferred out of the Honors Program. My adviser said I struggle too much. It's disturbing beyond words.

HELL YES

Can anyone here recommend some resources for a friend who is getting off Seroquel??? She's been getting "free" samples, but they're drying up and she cannot afford the $800 price tag. So she's off by default. I have to be fair and say that I have seen her stop rapid switching of DID alters when she takes the drug, in fact it's the only thing that helps with that. But she's also gained 60 pounds and now finds she can't get off it. I'm not sure she even knows what the sxs of withdrawl are, actually. As you all know, it's hard to sort out the side effects from the withdrawl sxs from the original disability, especially in the context of a mental "health" center.

Interestingly, this week she finally got some sleep after five days of no sleep. How? She took two benedry. I have been harping for years about the helpfulness of a regular routine, which cured my own lifelong insomnia. I married an accountant (boy, those folks are REGULAR!!!) who fought me for years over his desire to have me join him in a regular bedtime. It never occured to me those folks who preached regularity were *right*. I'm a slow learner, but I did get it finally.

I would be most appreciative if anyone can recommend any help for this woman. I can post my Yahoo e-mail addy here if need be. She really needs to get off this stuff. She's been accepted into a clinical trial of the benefits of exercise on chronic mental illness so I told her this may be "her time". Hopefully this may need to quit the drugs (she can't even afford generic trilafon), coupled with the free exercise program will be the best thing that ever happened to her.

Sherry

Sherry, i wrote blog entries as i removed seroquel last spring. not easy to get through withdrawals, but it can be done. flu like symptoms, stomach shit, nightmares, if you go to my blog i have it on the side bar, and keep in mind i wrote as it was happening.

BENADRYL IS THE KEY.[and way less toxic!] these drugs act the same for insomnia. i swear by 50mg of benadryl at night when i can't sleep, and i can think when i wake up.

There is an anti histamine factor in the mechanism of action with seroquel that relates to benadryl, i'm not a scientist or doctor, but i've found an equal med to seroquel and its cheap old benadryl.

I would like to add myself to the list of those who feel addicted to Seroquel. The story about the guy in a jail demanding Seroquel is getting too much copy and paste. Here's one for you:

"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."
Aldous Huxley, 1959