How does injections of haldol or prolixin help treat bipolar disorder?
Balances the chemicals in your brain-lifelong treatment
Haldol and prolixin are antipsychotic drugs, also formerly known as "major tranquilizers". They are the same class of drug as the animal tranquilizers used to shoot a wild tiger, etc. with to render him so calm that anything can be done with him, as if he was a pet. These drugs will calm any kind of agitation or excitement, such as the mania of a bipolar (manic depressive). These drugs make you like a zombie. You may still be awake, but your emotions are paralyzed. There is no special effect on manic depressives. These drugs should not be used without strong reason to do so, as they can cause permanant neurological impairment, called Tardive Dyskinesia, where a person has involuntary movements usually of his mouth and face, even tounge. Also, these drugs cause temporary Parkinson like effects, making the user stiff, and making it difficult to initiate movement like getting out of a chair as well as akathesia, where the patient is very restless and can't sit or lay still.
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