Can antipychotic drugs hurt a patient, who is healthy?( I mean cases of wrong diagnosis.)?

I am just curious,'cas mistkae shappen anywhere, anytime.Can antipychotic drugs hurt a patient, who is healthy?( I mean cases of wrong diagnosis.)?
YES !


sorry i screamed but yes most definitely


look to the homeless population and their history with mental illness and the wrong anti psychotic drugsCan antipychotic drugs hurt a patient, who is healthy?( I mean cases of wrong diagnosis.)?
Antipsychotics (and any drug for that matter) have potential side effects. A doctor must weigh the risks and benefits and determine if they are worth a try. It can be very hard for a physician to absolutely 100% diagnose a mental illness accurately. People rarely present with the ';textbook'; symptoms of any illness. Then medications often need to be changed and adjusted until the desired response is seen. Certainly mistakes can happen, but treating mental illnesses with meds can be a lot of trial and error. As long as the meds are taken as prescribed and you talk to your pharmacist about how to take them correctly, you should be OK. Also report side effects promptly to your doctor or pharmacist so they can advise you on what to do about them. These meds are very common and usually side effects are minimal when compared to the effects of the illness itself. I say they are worth a try if someone is struggling. If they don't really have the illness, it probably won't really hurt the patient. However, the meds should be stopped (as directed - some meds need to be weaned slowly) once the mistake is known.
I would think any patient that is misdiagnosed and treated incorrectly has the potential for harm.
Anti-psychotics have the risk of causing ticks in a person, but they are usually prescribed only if the benefits outweigh the risk of the ticks.
You'd get the same range of side effects that a psychotic person would get without the benefits. The side effects can be pretty unpleasant, sometimes dangerous, such that people with mental illness often feel they outweigh the benefits of taking the drug.





If you were diagnosed wrongly and given the drug, you should still be under the supervision of a doctor - anti-psychotics are impossible to prescribe a standard amount to all patients because everyone reacts differently so blood levels are usually watched closely and, I would assume, the affect on the patient would also be of some interest to the medicos





Some anti-psychotic drugs are used in relatively healthy people who are not psychotic (depression, autism, OCD) so they're considered to be safe up to a point but they're not drugs you'd want to take if you didn't have to