Could drugs used for control of mental illness cause behaviour problems?

Question

Strong psychiatric medication used to control mania and/or depression affect the mind and body functions. Can such medication overbalance and cause excessive mood swings, or violence?

Answer 1

What goes around, comes around. The thing is a lot of the older typical anti-psychotic medications were too strong for their own good. They caused many adverse side effects which led to conditions such as neuroleptic malignant syndrome and tardive dyskinesia. When you try to stop one problem you end up creating hundreds of other problems.

Answer 2

With all medications there are always possible side effects. However, I do not know of any medications that cause behavioral problems from people with depression/mania, this is not normal. These medications are intended to balance you and should not be causing excessive mood swings. Chances are that your medication is not the right one for you and should be changed.

Answer 3

YES.
Psychotropic drugs are strong medicine, and should be administered under careful supervision. Since body chemistry is very individual, these meds are often given on a trial and error basis, the dosage adjusted as the doctor observes the response to it. All changes in behavior should be documented and reported to the prescribing physician, because only with detailed information can s/he make good decisions about which meds to use, and how much.

Answer 4

I was on a drug for depression and had mood swings, was apathetic, sleeping excessively, broke out in tears without any reason. Assume that could answer the question with yes.

Answer 5

Any drug used to "control" a particular physical situation will have an effect on other bodily functions. Sometimes these side-effects will be positive, sometimes negative.

This is especially true of drugs used to alter "mental" functions, since the brain is one of the most complex of physical systems. Anyone who uses a drug to "treat" a temporary condition must accept the possibility that the drug will affect other bodily functions, usually adversely.

Answer 6

no its not a mental illness is for example dementia older people tend to get this or confusion when they forget who they are and revert back to childhood. Brain damage is a trauma or accident that has injured the brain causing the person to have brain damage if part of the brain is damaged.Abuse could cause an older person to revert back to childhood or as i said before dementia or confusion not knowing what is going on around them

Answer 7

Definitely either it can cause mood swings in the form of violence or to the other extreme of making him totally insensitive dull and lost.

Answer 8

Yes, I think the overuse of antidepressants for everything from pain to mood stabilizers is going to prove MOST dangerous as the years go by. You simply can't mess with the chemicals of the brain and have no consequences.

Answer 9

Drugs are being widely used in public schools these days to control behavioral anomalies in children so's they don't disrupt classroom activities.

In a few years we'll probably know the cost.

Answer 10

so far, taking mental illness drugs seem to control the mind.

but how much is over-does? this i don't know...

but recently feeling dizzy easily...

could be the warm weather too including the dizzy side effects of the medicine.

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