I seriously doubt that the pharmacological companies can create drugs that target dopamine receptors. The psychiatrists are sold on this statement. The science doesn’t know what it professes to know.
Do you contest that AP’s have dopamine blockers?
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What do you think they do, then?
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This has been well-established science for many years.
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So well established in fact (since the 1950s)that they profess to not knowing how the antipsychotics work. It’s just some shot in the dark that dulls your brain. Any drug does that. It’s a miracle they say. Antipsychotics are simply for control of the mentally ill. Side effects are sometimes deadly.
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OMFG. Just google it.
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You can philosophically question every and each part of our knowledge, but that is not convenient for daily life.
I’m very critical of medications and do not believe they target a specific medical illness, but rather just numb your sensations, feelings and thoughts allover. Including, but not limited to, the weird and uncomfortable ones. I believe nobody really knows what psychosis is and how exactly APs work. But I think they do influence dopamine in the brain, there is a lot of research about that, for what it is worth.
Maybe in 200 years we will find all this ■■■■■■■■, just like we look now at the past theories psychiatry came up with. But for now, let’s just assume the APs-lower-dopamine-thing is true.
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If your suggesting that they are just a sedative, I find it an amazing coincidence that all my delusions started to fade away and disappear shortly after I started taking Invega. Delusions that I had for years, btw. IMO, you are simply wrong.
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I’ll be quite frank with you. At this point, with the years of experience that we have with Antipsychotics, to claim that Antipsychotics are simply a tranquilizer to control the mentally ill and do not have an effect on delusions and hallucinations, is a bit like claiming that the earth revolves around the moon.
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It’s an interesting position to take. I myself have no knowledge of neurochemistry/ science as most people, so I just take the dopamine hypothesis through trust. But I do know that antipsychotics/ major tranquilizers do work I just have no knowledge obtained through my own investigations to explain why. I think there is room to deny a widely held hypothesis when authorities admit they dont know the exact mechanism of action the medicine affects. I know aps made my psychosis worse after stopping them and better after taking them, the rest I slavishly take on trust
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Closing as this is nothing but anti-science false information.
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