null24 wrote:HumbleTraveler wrote:"the patient remained treatment compliant, as well as drug and symptom free...."
Ah yes, except for his quetiapine for psychosis, divalproex sodium (Depakote) for impulsivity, gabapentin for anxiety, and hydroxyzine for sleep! Go pharma, go!
Yup, we have a cure for psychedelic metanoia right here, it'll knock that ennui right outta ya!
Wow. I don't see the radical break between the use of psychedelics and the use of pharma. It's all pharmakon or poison or gift, depending on substance and dosage and circumstance.
None of it is a "cure" to me. And in this case, it seems, that metanoia was far from this lad. Rather paranoia and mania were on the table.
Metanoia, if it is happening, can be had on Camellia Sinensis or common tea.
His pharma cocktail is not ideal, perhaps, but I see it as pretty compassionate, especially given his rhabd.
Given that the "signals" he was receiving and generating in his nervous system led him to that state, the not so ideal dampening of those signals through those measures is actually compassionate.
The metanoia is in the person, if at all, and not the drug, whatever the drug.
I'm actually a proponent of quietipine if and when it is needed. So go pharam go, indeed.