Pros And Cons Of Psychiatric Medications

Are Psychiatric Medications the only way to treat mental health disorders? This is the big question for mental health professionals today. They just can not figure out how to answer it. But an even bigger problem is how can they answer that question of feeling what a person feels with and without psychiatric medication.

This process of psychological studies are extremely challenging. This is because they are a newer to the field of psychological research. These disorders were originally described during the 1980’s. It was put into writing in the “diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” or DSM for short. This manual was the go to book for psychological professionals. Basically these disorders have only been around for 25 years

But It is true, of course, that people who have been diagnosed with certain mental health disorders need to be prescribed specific medication to help them cope with their disorder. Some psychiatrists do indeed prescribe medications without harming the person in any way. However, most professional psychiatrists tend to over medicate. Sometimes they do this without even realizing it. In fact, When they over medicate a patient it doesn’t usually get rid of the problem at hand, it actually just masks the problem by covering it up with all of the unnecessary medication

Antonio Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist who claimed a surgical adjustment that was successful. He believed that it would help people diagnosed with certain mental disorders like anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Antonia was convinced that thoughts that go through the frontal lobe got stuck in a pattern that it should not be stuck in. these thoughts go through these things called nerve fibers. His surgery idea would take place in the frontal lobe by cutting those nerve fibers that were stuck. This surgery today is called Frontal lobotomy. Moniz completely believed that those continuous thought rings were fixed