What if my freind stops taking her drug perscriptions for her mental illness??!
Question: a family member has been consuming the drug quetiapine fumarate 300 mg tablet at night,6 clomipramine HCL 25mg tablets at night and EPILIM 200mg EC(2 tablets in the morning and 4 at night).she has been taking them for the last
6 years due to mental illness.
Do these substances cause permanent brain damage what side effects or " bad things could these cause??"
What would happen if she were to just stop taking them after developing a strong dependancy to the drug ie. nausea,lowered immune protection,serious
medical conditions or will she be able to just fight the dependancy as if it was just a matter of taking the pain rather than submitting to altered consciousness
Answers: a family member has been consuming the drug quetiapine fumarate 300 mg tablet at night,6 clomipramine HCL 25mg tablets at night and EPILIM 200mg EC(2 tablets in the morning and 4 at night).she has been taking them for the last
6 years due to mental illness.
Do these substances cause permanent brain damage what side effects or " bad things could these cause??"
What would happen if she were to just stop taking them after developing a strong dependancy to the drug ie. nausea,lowered immune protection,serious
medical conditions or will she be able to just fight the dependancy as if it was just a matter of taking the pain rather than submitting to altered consciousness
The medications do not cause brain damage. They work by replacing chemicals in the brain that may be low or missing and helps the brain use what is available more effeciently.
Judging my the medication list I am assuming your friend has a mood disorder.. Bipolar? I definately dont recommend your friend discontinuing medication without discussing things with the Psychatrist who is treating her. if it is side effects she is concerned with she might discuss a possible change in medication. None of the medications you listed are physically addictive so there shouldnt be any concern for dependency.
The way to look at it is people with high blood pressure have to take blood pressure medication to maintain their health and over all well being. The same applies with mental illness. It can not be cured but it can be treated and maintained at a level the person is able to live a long, healthy and productive life in a state that is much better then before treatment.
Shouldn't you be talking to a psychiatrist or at least a medical doctor?
Hi Paul. I would strongly recommend you get your friend to talk to her doctor or therapist. Not only could this person suffer physical withdrawal symptoms, but emotional backlashes, too. It is just plain dangerous to stop any psychotropic, or mood stabilizing medications, with out a doctors consent or med plan. Good luck to you both!
if your friend, has been taking them this long there is a reason, and no she probably isn't dependant on them, her body needs them to help regulate the chemical imbalance in her brain. As far as I know there is not brain damage that these drugs cause in fact I read that some drugs used for bipolar actual help prevent the brain for the aging affects. Why are you asking all these things?
If your friend thinks she needs to stop her meds that is for her to talk to her doctor about. and I think you need to keep your nose out of her business. the bad things that could happened if she stopped taking her meds, is suicide, I don't know her diagnosis, but death is a possibility with mental illness, if not treated.
These questions I think would be better answered by a Doctor.
There may be side affects to stopping any medication.
Important they do not do anything rash and Speak to a doctor.