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Drugs That Can Do More Harm Than Good While Treating Mental Disorder

Author: Gregor Kowal
by Gregor Kowal
Posted: Nov 30, 2014

The society is changing fast and amid pressure from work and personal life, people are struck in a terrible quagmire. The pressure from work, social and personal life over and over again can lead to disastrous consequences. If you go by record then more than 4% of the populations in the Middle East are suffering from acute mental disorder. Many a time, often these folks resort to un-prescribed medication to help deal with the problem. However, it is not a good idea to go for un-prescribed medicines for treating the ailment. If you are facing anxiety or any other kind of mental disorder then availing a psychiatrist is a better bet than going for self treatment. In this article, you will get to figure out some of the drugs that you must prevent in all probability for treating any mental disorder ranging from anxiety, schizophrenia to depression.

Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills

Now-a-days pressure on individuals is mounting with the passage of each day. So, they are experiencing sleepless nights, these phenomena results in the development of anxiety on account of stress and agitation. If you go by record then you would be able to find out that on an average almost 15.6% have been using tranquilizers and sleeping pills to help ease their anxiety. In this share, almost 39% of them use daily, but the consequences of this kind of medication are deleterious for health and mind. In most of the tranquilizers special elements like Valium, Librium, Xanax and Halcium are used. These elements trigger sleep but it has innumerous side effects like causing low blood pressure, liver disease, allergies, breathing problems so on and so forth. So, when you walk out to buy these medicines then ponder once before making a deal.

Antipsychotic Drugs

This drug is used for treating serious mental illness like schizophrenia, anxiety but the simmering issue is that often folks anticipate their mental problems similar to schizophrenia and they avail them. However, though the symptoms of schizophrenia is hallucination and confusion but often in people it may be caused due to some other reason and to conclude that it is schizophrenia is a grave mistake. Such people resort to antipsychotic drugs and they invite nerve damage, Parkinson disease, tartive dyslexia, and Muscular fatigue. In many cases, this drug has triggered Parkinson disease in patient. The facts reflect that 36% of patient inflicted by Parkinson disease have been using antipsychotic drugs from their past historical medical records.

So, if you are having hallucinations, fear, anxiety then it is important that you must contact psychiatrists for support rather than going for these drugs. Though in the short run they provide temporary care but in the long run they can lead to the development of grave diseases.

Author Bio:-

Dr. Gregor Kowal runs his own clinic in Dubai; if you want to know anything about Psychiatric Treatment for Anxiety then you can contact his website.

About the Author

The author has been writing a lot about psychiatry doctors Dubai. He also writes about treatment of sleep disorders in Dubai.

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