Has anyone ever seen a commercial for a sz med on regular tv programming?

I know a lot of people stream or whatever and often they dont have commercials.

My parents use antennae tv alot though. They have streaming stuff too but they like many of the shows on antennae tv. It is just filled with medication commercials for a wide range of products. You never see one for sz.

They have commercials for Vraylar and such but they only market them as treating bipolar and such. Not a peep about sz. Are they maybe scared to mention that it treats sz too as it might scare off people using it to treat bipolar?

I know we are a small segment of the population, and thus demand may not be sufficiant to warrant solo commercials, so this may be similar in other locales as well.

Just curious if you have ever seen one

Very briefly Caplyta (Sp?) advertised for people with schizophrenia,

But I only noticed it a couple times before they changed it to people with bi-polar and other stuff.

Weird.

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Yes I’ve seen ads for seroquel, vraylar, saphris and zyprexa all during jeopardy. Also ozempic and jardiance. What kind of audience do they think is watching???

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I think there was a TV commercial for Fanapt and it was geared towards schizophrenia

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If you’re still seeing commercials, you’re doing it wrong. (Like my wife.)

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Nobody should be advertising drugs the doctors job is too prescribe meds i fell for vraylar and it caused me too feel dead inside it was a nightmare and I’ve heard of a guy trying latuda and it almost killed him because he was allergic

We only get ads for over the counter meds.

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I get live TV through Hulu and I see caplyta and ingrezza a lot… I know ingrezza is mostly about movements but still a little weird to see it on TV

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It’s annoying to me that they only advertise antipsychotics for bipolar. I have even heard them refer to such meds as antidepressants instead of being an antipsychotic. It’s crazy to me

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This reminds me of Wellbutrin? I think.

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Yeah but nobody is gonna be like “it’s a antipsychotic must be helpful” the word “psychotic” I try not to use myself due to stigma I prefer “in a episode of psychosis” and a lot of other things