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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Your thousands of schizophrenic patients on antipsychotics? Or was it more like 100-200 schizophrenic patients on antipsychotics? So with an annual TD incident rate of 0.9% on second generation antipsychotics, you have have seen up to two cases? Or was it 100 schizophrenics on antipsychotics in 14 years? Was it that many? Or was that just a super useful anecdote?
1% annual rate is small until you think of a million people getting prescriptions for SGAs. It's quite a bit higher for first gen. And that statistic doesn't account for lifetime risk to an individuals. It's hardly insignificant.
Furthermore, doesn't it make you feel bad at all that the treatment used induced a permanent motor disability in even ONE individual under your care?
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No absolutely would not feel bad if ONE person developed something like a movement disorder because they would have had the risk of this communicated by their doctor and accepted that risk as an adult, and it would also be a failing of their doctor to notice this developing side effect as well. Then there’s the consideration that UNTREATED SCHIZOPHRENIA, the alternative, would have left them as a homeless person yelling at buildings and running from shadow people until they killed themself, which is a very real possibility. So what’s a better life, Cecily? Movement disorders or a brain permanently caught in a nightmare of hallucinations making a person unable to function as an adult or causing them to kill themselves
And these aren’t people under my care. I’m coming in and temporarily assisting them. They have a clinic with a case manager, they are under their care. And yes, hundreds of them for years and seen it once