Psychotropic drugs

Psychotropic drugs

Psychotropic drugs are medications that boost or inhibit the actions of neurotransmitters to remedy mood disorders and psychosis. Psychotropic drugs help improve social and mental functioning and include mood stabilizers,antidepressants, and antipsychotics. Some of the reasons for non-compliance to antipsychotic drugs include fear of resulting side effects such as weight loss. Also, fear of drug dependence, social stigma, and perceptions of being cured are other reasons for people not taking medication. Proper diagnosis for symptoms that need medical intervention and testing prevents drug non-adherence and relapse in mentally ill persons. People should also understand the side effects and benefits of the drug prescribed to them. In case of relapse, people should also seek help from qualified psychiatrists.

Individuals may fail to take medications if they are expensive and not covered by insurance. To solve the issue of medical cost requires additional resources from the hospital. People may also forget to take medications. To help the mentally ill remember, guardians should assist in addition to set alarm clocks on. As a result of stigma, people with mental illness may fail to take medications. To help individuals overcome the stigma, they need to feel like they are taking other regular medications. Also, individuals experiencing aversive side effects may fail to take medication. To deal with side effects, psychiatrists can use other different combinations as well as bring into perspective the overall benefit of the drug.