Don't misunderstand. I'm not advising them to not stick to it if they find the treatment appropriate.
I just don't think that it is wise to force a life-long treatment if the patient is aware that they have a problem but they also feel that the treatment is causing other issues.
Especially if the treatment has adverse effects that can be erroneously thought as being caused by the illness itself.
Clinicians, self-admittedly, do not have the answers and unfortunately, some of them can be a little handwavy and forceful when it comes to cognitive ailments even though it's not a very understood area.
Before medicamenting people into oblivion because of a diagnosis that may not be the right one, in an area of science that is underfunded and not well understood, I think there is a need for better answers.
By any means, if the person is dangerous for themselves or others, and the chemotherapy stabilizes them, that's fine.
That's not really that case that I was trying to address.
I just don't think that it is wise to force a life-long treatment if the patient is aware that they have a problem but they also feel that the treatment is causing other issues. Especially if the treatment has adverse effects that can be erroneously thought as being caused by the illness itself.
Clinicians, self-admittedly, do not have the answers and unfortunately, some of them can be a little handwavy and forceful when it comes to cognitive ailments even though it's not a very understood area.
Before medicamenting people into oblivion because of a diagnosis that may not be the right one, in an area of science that is underfunded and not well understood, I think there is a need for better answers.
By any means, if the person is dangerous for themselves or others, and the chemotherapy stabilizes them, that's fine. That's not really that case that I was trying to address.