Informed insight appreciated.
My #19 may still apply though: he may have been on a benign mitigating drug, but it was still functioning in conjunction with one; from experience someone abruptly going off a mood/mind-altering drug can go completely apes#!^ in a hurry.
My 2 laymen’s cents.
There is also the issue of at what stages anti-psychotic drugs become effective.
A DC friend was very overworked, lapsed into state of total non-functioning depression. She didn’t seem “down,” just non-functioning.
GP put on psychoactive med. After 4 days on it, her thought processes were again “functional.” Not “healthy,” but “functional,” so she was able to effectively create and execute suicide plans.
Husband saved her, stomach pumped, etc.
She got on other med and is now fine.
Going off can be problem too because drug gets pt “normal” so pt thinks they ARE “normal” and goes off meds.
Lesson here for me. Never take psychoactive drugs from GP. Pt wouldn’t take anti-cancer drugs from GP, why take equally “strong” psychoactives?
Be well.