[Servant of the Nine]

But the rule of thumb SHOULD be, "bipolar disorder, schizophrenics should not take these."

Correcto.

Lithium is the only drug that has proven effective with Bi-Polar dissorder.

There are a number of anti-psychotics that are helpfull with Schitzophrenics.

Antidepressants are for Clinical Depression, situational depression, Obsessive Compulsive disorder, and other neuroses.
The trouble is no two people are affected the same, so they can't just be prescribed off a chart. Each patient must be worked up on one drug after another to see what it does for them. That can take years and hundreds of visits, that insurance won't cover.

So9

[Darksheare]

Medicating me, and the rest of my family for that matter, is a nightmare.
I have an opposite reaction to codiene.
And albuterol sulphate, for asthma, has an exagerrated effect on me.
Thorazine and demerol seem to have no effect.

Pharmocologically, my family is interesting.
Makes for some interesting hospital visits.
Along with the standard warning to the docs, "Be acreful with meds, there are no predictable reactions to them in my family."
They usually scoff, and then prescribe codiene and cough syrup for pneumonia.
With predictable bad results. *Chuckle*

What's truly scary about my grandmother, she has a high IQ.
And that helped her to hide that she was nuts, at least until age set in, or around 30. From then on, it came out in fits and starts.

Makes me wonder, it does it does.
*cue Twilight Zone theme*