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WTF is risperdex? and whoTF gives schizos antidepressants?

posted 17 years ago by Me_Rules
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risperdex is not an actual drug (stupid word play on risperdal an ANTIPSYCHOTIC drug) and giving "antidepressants" to schizophrenics is like....whatever...superstupid. it's like giving heart patients diuretics or sleep aid or something. how can you make a movie anout psychiatry and not know that (or at least try to find out)? I'm sure wikipedia existed back then.
Please confirm that these goofs exist in the english version too so i can add them too the goofs part.
thank you.

[–] WineRed 17 years ago

It's not a goof. The drug was fake, sure, but not everything you see in the movies is necessarily real. A lot of movies fake some of the things in them, and saying thate very patient was on zoloft would have taken away from the plot, because everyone knows what it does. As for all of the patients taking it, it's not a goof. At . . I don't even remember the name of the place, but they didn't want the patients to get better. At least the administrator didn't. Since he became the head of the instituation there hadn't been any patients 'cured' and discharged. It was no coincidence. You don't get government funds for patients you don't have.

[–] trevorlsciact 14 years ago

But the girl was on it too, and they worked for her most of the time. And the patients were on placebos anyway. So it actually make little sense. It's something relatively easy to overlook tho.

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[–] trevorlsciact 14 years ago

Yeah, I know that. But it still makes no sense that they call it an "antidepressant" You don't give people with those sort of disorders antidepressants. You give them antipsychotics.

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[–] ColbyJacko 14 years ago

Actually a lot of people on antipsychotics are also on antidepressants, though I agree with you without the antipsychotic an antidepresssant isnt going to do a lot for their mental health

[–] trevorlsciact 14 years ago

Yes, especially since antidepressants are often also anti-anxiety. Finally a voice of reason here; I swear most people who post here must be 8.

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[–] RobBase086-1 13 years ago

Yes, but this is a film and that is how the writer/director wanted it done.

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[–] RobBase086-1 13 years ago

Yes exactly on what you just said there!

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[–] RobBase086-1 13 years ago

It totally threw me off when Sara could not remember a thing on what happened and who Clark was until I started to watch and pay attention to this is how the film was suppose to be done.

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[–] RobBase086-1 13 years ago

Well a tip off was when that one patient hung himself. It was set up so that he could not go home. Like you have stated in your post there. They wanted to keep the patients in and not let them go home normal.

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[–] natworks 14 years ago

Risperdol treats both Bipolar disorder AND depression. I was on it for a period of time. KTHNX.

[–] deansandra 14 years ago

Agreed. They should have made it a sedative like Thorazine if they did not want them getting better, but to keep them calm.

[–] Strazdamonas 13 years ago

they werent giving antidepresants to shizophrenics. they were gicing antidepresants to the guy that hung himself suffering from severe depresion after his parents death.

also made up drug is not a good.

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[–] silverbillings 11 years ago

Though I agree with giving them a calmer for a fake drug... I want to cut in with the whole "whoTF gives schizos antidepressants". I have spent the greater part of my life in and out of different psych wards and antidepressants are something that "schizos" get a lot. I'm schizophrenic, and I'm on an anti-depressant.

[–] Gig1957 10 years ago

"whoTF gives schizos antidepressants?"
Granted, it may not be the best course of medication, nevertheless it is actually very common to treat schizophrenia with "antidepressants" . I didn't want to spend a lot of time looking into it, but in just a couple of minutes, I found pages and pages of references for this. I am only listing the first four or so.

"Negative symptoms seen in patients with chronic schizophrenia are commonly treated with antidepressants in an attempt to reduce disability"
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740229

"EARLY TREATMENT WITH ANTIDEPRESSANTS MAY PREVENT SCHIZOPHRENIA"
http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/005009.html#

"Study Finds Antidepressants May Help in Treating Schizophrenia"
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2011/06/study-finds-increasing-use-of-antidepressants-in-treating-some-symptoms-of-schizophrenia/

"the has repeatedly been suggested as a promising strategy in schizophrenic patients"
http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/12386545/[The_place_of_SSRIs_in_the_treatment_of_schizophrenia]_

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