Also....Unfortunately psychiatric medications often have debilitating physical and mental side effects.
An especially difficult side effect is mental “blunting”. In other words, they feel as if 20 or 30 points have been knocked off their IQ and this makes many types of employment impossible for them, or even safe for them to do.
All psychotropic medications have side effects, although some of the newer medications are much better in that regard. My son is on a shot he takes twice a week called Risperdal Consta. Yes, there are side effects, but it has completely eliminated his voices and his delusional thinking. The need for even better medications that have fewer side effects is one of the goals of current research. In the 12-week course I teach (and for which I am my state’s coordinator), we spend considerable time talking about the various medications and their benefits and side effects.