But you cannot possibly be suggesting that anti-psychotics should NEVER be used, are you?
I can only speak for my own experience. My mother is bipolar and has had 3 psychotic breaks in the last ten years, leading to our having her involuntarily committed. The last 2 resulted from her stopping her meds, the first time was prior to her having been diagnosed as bipolar.
Getting her back on her bipolar meds has been entirely insufficient for repairing the pyschotic break. It has only been with the introduction of the anti-psychotics that she is able to get better and get out of the hospital.
That you believe as you do is no issue to me, have read these sentiments for years now here at FR, wherein a sizable anti-psychiatric meds population lives.
Clearly there is much unknown about brain chemistry and function. It is why the first few months after mom was released from the hospital the first time that there was almost weekly adjustments to her medication cocktail. And then they got it right (which is to say, allowed her to function ‘normally’ again).
This issue just seems to be anything but binary, either-or. Lots of gray in the area.