What Are Some Antipsychotic Medications?

Antipsychotic medications can reduce or relieve symptoms of psychosis, such as delusions and hallucinations. Formerly known as significant tranquilizers and neuroleptics, antipsychotic medications are the main class of drugs used to treat people with schizophrenia. They are also used to treat people with psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. Other uses of antipsychotics include:

• Stabilizing moods in bipolar disorder
• Reducing anxiety in anxiety disorders
• Reducing tics in Tourette syndrome

What Are Some Antipsychotic Drugs?

• Abilify (Aripiprazole)
• Abilify Maintena 
• Alaquet (Quetiapine)
• Amisulpride
• Anquil (Benperidol)
• Aripiprazole
• Asenapine
• Benperidol
• Denzapine (Clozapine)
• Depixol (Flupentixol)
• Dolmatil (Sulpiride)
• Haldol (Haloperidol)
• Haldol Decanoate 
• Largactil (Chlorpromazine)
• Latuda (Lurasidone)
• Levomepromazine
• Lurasidone
• Moderate (Fluphenazine Decanoate)
• Neulactil (Pericyazine)
• Nozinan (Levomepromazine)
• Olanzapine
• Olanzapine Pamoate Monohydrate (Depot)
• Orap (Pimozide)
• Paliperidone
• Paliperidone Palmitate (Depot)
• Pericyazine
• Pimozide
• Prochlorperazine
• Promazine
• Psytixol (Flupentixol Decanoate)
• Quetiapine
• Reagila (Cariprazine)
• Risperidone
• Seroquel (Quetiapine)
• Solian (Amisulpride)
• Stelazine (Trifluoperazine)
• Stemetil (Prochlorperazine)
• Sulpiride
• Sulpor (Sulpiride)
• Sycrest (Asenapine)
• Trifluoperazine
• Zuclopenthixol
• Zuclopenthixol Decanoate (Depot)
• Zuclopenthixol Dihydrochloride

What Is The Purpose Of Antipsychotic Drugs?

Antipsychotic medications can help to calm and clear confusion in a person with acute psychosis within hours or days, but they can take up to four or six weeks to reach their full effect. These medications can help control symptoms but do not cure the underlying condition. When taken over a longer term, antipsychotics can help to prevent further episodes of psychosis. While antipsychotic medications can help some people with psychosis and mood disorders, these drugs can have serious side effects. Medication treatment aims to reduce and control symptoms while keeping side effects at a minimum.

Combining antipsychotic medication with other therapy and support can help people to manage symptoms and improve their quality of life. Family therapy, peer support, school and job counseling, and housing and employment support can all be helpful. Some therapists now offer cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people cope with voices and auditory hallucinations.

Taking care of your physical health is especially important if you take antipsychotic medication. Both schizophrenia and the medicines used to treat it can increase the risk of diabetes and other serious health problems. Regular checkups and medical care can help you have good physical health. Eating a nutritious diet, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep can also help you to get and stay well.

What Is The Best Anti Psychosis Medicine?

Antipsychotic medications don’t ‘cure’ psychosis, but they are often effective in reducing and controlling many symptoms, including:

• Delusions and hallucinations, such as paranoia and hearing voices
• Anxiety and severe agitation, for example, from feeling threatened
• Incoherent speech and muddled thinking
• Confusion
• Violent or disruptive behavior
• Mania

Rather than obliterating these symptoms, sometimes antipsychotic medication may prevent the symptoms from being so intrusive and intense, helping the person feel more stable and productive.

One of the best antipsychotic medications:

• Chlorpromazine – this is a prescription medicine used to treat the symptoms of Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders. Doctors also recommend to their patients to control agitation and mania in people who have bipolar disorder. Chlorpromazine is a psychiatric medication that belongs to the class of drugs called phenothiazine antipsychotics. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain. It can reduce aggressive behavior and the desire to hurt yourself/others. It may also help to decrease hallucinations.

What Happens If A Normal Person Takes Antipsychotic Medication?

Antipsychotics have been abused and misused by inpatients and outpatients. Most published case reports of antipsychotic abuse involve quetiapine, although some describe the misuse of other agents, including olanzapine.

Both typical and atypical antipsychotics commonly cause side effects like drowsiness, dizziness, blurred vision, constipation, nausea, and vomiting. These often go away. But the drugs can also cause serious long-term side effects.

Antipsychotic medication can cause movement disorders such as twitching and restlessness, sedation and weight gain, and lead to diabetes. Taking antipsychotics can increase your risk of developing metabolic syndrome. If you experience metabolic syndrome, this means you are at higher risk of developing diabetes and stroke.