Posted by chujoe on July 13, 2010, at 12:57:58
In reply to Re: Progress of Psychiatry, posted by linkadge on July 13, 2010, at 12:30:53
Yeah, me too, if those are the criteria, with "impairment" being the operative word. And, again, not to minimize anyone's distress or suffering, I'd just note that the "normal" brain changes as we age & in response to environmental factors; some of these changes are distressing, others not; some are reversible, others not. In any case, a drug that can be shown to cause irreversible changes that are distressing to the patient ought not be approved, though one of the complications with psychiatric drugs is that they seem to affect different brains in different ways.
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