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Facts You May Not Know About Psychiatric Drugs

• Higher doses and longer term use of psychiatric drugs often mean brain changes

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Health Risks of Psychiatric Drugs

Making a decision about coming off psychiatric drugs means evaluating as best you can the risks

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What Do Psychiatric Drugs Do to Your Brain?

Like street drugs and any mood or mind altering substance, psychiatric drugs alter mental states and behavior by affecting brain chemistry.
Current medical theory is that most psychiatric drugs work by changing the levels of chemicals called neurotransmitters (anti-convulsants, anti-epileptics, and “mood stabilizers” like lithium appear to work by changing blood flow and electrical activity in the brain in general). Neurotransmitters are linked with mood and mental functioning, and all the cells of the nervous system, including brain cells, use neurotransmitters to communicate with each other. When neurotransmitter levels change, “receptor” …