Does it actually help with recovery… like I know old time lobotomy, although turns you into a vegetative state, helps by disconnecting a area of your brain(idk where but I think frontal lobe) does ap do the same thing but in a wayyyyy more safer way alsodoes not turn you vegetative?
Lobotomies were bad science and nothing like the way ap’s work. Ap’s target chemicals in the brain so there’s no damage by severing things. I’m not sure it’s all bad with ap’s. I tend to think they may help form new neural links and they are more effective than any other current treatments.
Personally I think you gain some and lose some on ap’s but I’m way better off than without.
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A few people improved a lot after a lobotomy and didn’t turn into a zombie.
I think APs work very differently and luckily you can go off it if you have side effects.
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Like I know that it’s main target is that, your chemical balance but I wonder that the whole ap shrinks the brain is a good thing like a lobotomy
Some meds made me express my emotions less but I was also in an unhealthy situation where I often couldn’t do so without consequences.
My current meds don’t do that at all.
I’m writing this again for people: 1 year ago when I was diagnosed with sz, I had a brain scan done. By that time, I’ve been taking the same AP for 5 years. The brain scan showed no damage: no calcification, no ruptures, nothing. It was clean. There was no brain damage whatsoever.
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The brain doesn’t have physical regenerative powers, in that it can’t produce new cells, but we use so little of our brains that I am sure other parts can take over when one part is damaged. I think we have something like100 trillion neurons in our brain. That leaves a lot of room to recover lost abilities.
Wow that’s a good thing to hear
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