Medication Reduction Advice for People with Mental Illness

Many patients often ask about the time to reduce medication after discharge. In fact, to determine whether patients can reduce medication clinically, the following factors are generally considered: 1. The cure for mental illness is only a clinical cure. Many mental illnesses cannot be cured at the current medical level, so the current cure is the disappearance of all clinical symptoms and complete self-awareness. 2, consider drug side effects, if there are more serious drug side effects, such as allergies, granulocyte deficiency, obvious organ function damage and the patient can not tolerate the pain, should reduce the drug, if necessary, to stop the drug. The risk of relapse after medication reduction should be determined by a professional psychiatrist based on the previous onset of the disease and the course of treatment, and a more professional opinion should be given.