CliveUK

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  1. Liquid Thorazine Shortage?

    I think thorazine is called chlorpromazine over here Don. As one of the older antipsychs, I really can't remember when I saw it last used - ages and ages ago.
  2. What's Your State Hospital Policy R/T BPD/O?

    Ah, these are the tensions you have to live with as a nurse. You can't "make" people better, they do that for themselves.
  3. CNA is a cutter

    Self-injury is just another form of coping mechanism for some people. You say later on in this thread that she says she has gone down the therapy route and found it useless. Seems to me like she has found a space in her life for her cutting, a way ...
  4. Reducing the Brain, Ignoring the Soul

    Me too StuPer. ECT is a controversial treatment, but in terms of side-effects, it's probably safer than some anti-depressants.
  5. Reducing the Brain, Ignoring the Soul

    StuPer - I've never advocated for meds alone as a treatment for depression. My feelings are that the chemical imbalances which are a feature of depression may - when the depression is still "mild to moderate" - be amenable to change through effectiv...
  6. Reducing the Brain, Ignoring the Soul

    StuPer - it is rather convenient, isn't it, that certain schools of counselling/therapy consider themselves too mysterious and unquantifiable to be researched adequately? Which allows them to get away with the self-proclaimed tales of their efficacy...
  7. Reducing the Brain, Ignoring the Soul

    Over here, the counselling and therapy industry is totally unregulated, except through informal, voluntary regulation by organisations representing therapists of various flavours. This is why I have a healthy dose of scepticism about therapy and the...
  8. Reducing the Brain, Ignoring the Soul

    There is next to no evidence for the effectiveness of "counselling". And seeing as "counsellors" don't even need to be licensed or registered to set their service up, you could be allowing rank amateurs to have access to your brain. Give me the dru...
  9. schizophrenia

    Hypothetically. In fact, none of the studies has demonstrated conclusively that ventricular enlargement is a feature of schizophrenia.
  10. ? about personal responsibility

    In the field of psychiatry, I don't think you can ever say "OK that's it, we've done all we can". It's the nature of the beast, and I would be strongly opposed to any measures which, basically, punished patients for having the temerity not to agree ...
  11. schizophrenia

    Short answer - no. Long answer - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  12. Antidepressants and children-New Info

    Horses for courses, I suppose. Some kids get on with them, others don't. I guess the point is that the drugs companies should have been upfront and honest about the side effects, allowing patients a real choice, rather than practising the worst kin...
  13. Group Therapy Ideas

    Is there published evidence Hukilau - do you have a reference?
  14. Don't most antipsychotics interfere with prolactin levels, hence the galactorrhoea some women experience and the erectile dysfunction in men? Would that lead to gynaecomastia? I owuld have thought any young man growing breasts as a result of drug tr...
  15. Psychiatric side effects monitoring form

    The Liverpool University Neuroleptic Side Effect Rating scale (Day et al 1996) sounds like the kind of thing you're after. It's a 51 item checklist of side effects and patients are asked to rate how much they have experienced the side effect over th...