Here in France we only have antipsychotics mainly for positive symptoms. In the US you also have medications for negative symptoms like sarcosine, unavailable in France. Even if antipsychotics were accidentally discovered by french doctors (chlorpromazine by Henri Laborit) during the 50’s, french psychiatry has taken a lot of delay since that time. The social purpose corporation for psy-disabled where I work is poorly developed. Same thing for psychiatric hospital and support structures. When I read topics here, US care provision seems to be better than french one.
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like sarcosine, unavailable in France.
Gee, I don’t know France, but I have a hard time lauding the care in the USA for schizophrenics. For example, when I go to the local hospital, they have a very attractive building for cancer patients, and an old mess for psychiatric patients. One finds clean bathrooms and cheery waiting rooms for the cancer people and dirty bathrooms for psychiatric patients. In the cancer waiting room they have great snacks and drinks, whereas in the psychiatric waiting room they have no coffee, no snacks, and a water cooler that needs servicing. Psychiatric patients are let know in many ways that we’re second class.
Jayster
ug wish it weren’t true, but it is. I remember when I was being taken out of the ER psych ward after my Late GF died, and was being walked into the hospital morgue, the friggin morgue had better waiting room, as did the drug rehab hall we passed through on the way…Drug addicts made a choice to be that way, we didn’t…