chemical lobotomy ?

Did you stop taking this drug abruptly?
Do you find this problem improving with time?

Insomnia can be side effect of using this drug and also usual withdrawal side effect.

The April I was referring to was in 2006, I only took the medicine for a few weeks and the side effects were so bad I stopped the med abruptly, I had a follow up visit with my Dr. and let him know about this and complained at the time of insomnia. He prescribed Ambien and that helped, but i wanted to be able to sleep like I did before taking resperidone and not take pills for it. My economic status changed and I had to switch to a cheaper alternative, alprazolam and melatonin(prescribed by psychiatrist). I would like to get off all meds. The blunting effect of the medications are slowly wearing off and I have seen an improvement in my mood since I stopped all other meds in November of 2007(the flat affect that I experienced was insufferable). Still, though, I have to take the alprazolam and melatonin to sleep. How long do side effects persist?

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Several family members and friends have been taking psychiatric drugs for many years.
Now, they all have tardive dyskensia and akathsisia.
One of my sisters and one of my friends developed an inoperable “blister” in the membrane around the brain.
They both developed relentlessly severe and incapacitating headaches.
The pressure caused bleeding in my sister’s brain, sending her into a coma and almost killing her.
They had to drill holes in her skull to relieve the pressure.
The blister in my friend’s brain divided into four smaller blisters, dispersing the pressure and relieving some of the pain.

The funny thing is that even while taking the drugs they were still depressed, anxious and manic.
Then I read a book by Peter Breggin and learned that the drugs actually caused all these symptoms, including the long-term side effects and disorders.

Are psychiatric drugs really a treatment, or do they just mask symptoms and cause other problems in the long run?

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