Good news: Psychosis risk syndrome excluded from DSM-5

I was worried about that. Some shrinks were saying that they could predict ahead of time who was going to become psychotic. Thne they would be able to "treat" those people. Just another way to bring in more business and drug more people.

http://www.nature.com/news/psychosis-ri ... -5-1.10610

Look at this psychiatrist who was actually going to drug up teenagers:
http://www.cchrint.org/tag/psychosis-risk-syndrome/

Parador wrote:I was worried about that. Some shrinks were saying that they could predict ahead of time who was going to become psychotic.

"Anti"-psychotics cause a psychosis risk syndrome.

"It is well established that antipsychotic drugs are associated with a physiological discontinuation syndrome. Other consequences of withdrawal have been described,including a rapid onset psychosis, sometimes called supersensitivity psychosis. In addition, some authors have suggested that the process of antipsychotic withdrawal may itself increase risk of relapse of schizophrenic or psychotic disorders, analogous to the increased risk of relapse demonstrated after lithium discontinuation in bipolar disorder" --- http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/ ... ugwith.pdf

Supersensitivity Psychosis: The Evidence

"This is the tenth in my series based on talking points raised by Robert Whitaker's eye-opening "Anatomy of an Epidemic." We left off with the shocking proposition that our antipsychotics may actually make us more prone rather than less prone to psychosis, thus turning good prognosis patients into chronic bad prognosis ones. The idea was first advanced in 1978 by Guy Chouinard and Barry Jones of McGill University, who coined the term, "supersensitivity psychosis." --- http://knowledgeisnecessity.blogspot.co ... dence.html

I think it might be bad news that this psychosis risk is excluded from DSM-5 knowing a major cause of it is the psychiatric drugs themselves.

It is good news, I get it. I was busy linking to things like supersensitivity psychosis - tardive psychosis and nueroleptic withdrawal syndrome ... I didnt think it through.