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Antipsychotic medications

Antipsychotic medications
Antipsychotic medications

If a patient starts experiencing delusions or hallucinations during depressive or manic episodes and lose touch with reality, then an antipsychotic drug might help with the condition. Antipsychotic medications tend to help the patients if mood stabilizers were a failure for them because they regulate manic episodes effectively. Often, doctors prescribe a mood stabilizer with antipsychotic medications. Following is the list of some popular antipsychotic drugs in practice:

  • Clozapine
  • Ariprazole
  • Ziprasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Risperidone
  • Quetiapine