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I publication pinch liking nan letters astir psychiatric attraction successful nan NHS (11 July), prompted by Rachel Clarke’s reappraisal of Bella Jackson’s book Fragile Minds (A furious battle connected NHS psychiatry, 30 June). I person not publication nan book but, arsenic a semipermanent psychiatric patient, I would for illustration to make 2 points.
First, attraction people varies successful quality, suitability and success. Following 3 years successful unsatisfactory backstage attraction (after galore erstwhile years successful NHS care), I person happily returned to nan NHS. I find its attraction superior, but hamstrung by constricted resources, which tin mean waiting galore months for an appointment. But I person ne'er been treated badly, arsenic Jackson suggests is common, moreover erstwhile successful nan worst state.
Second, I was struck by what Jackson says a inferior expert said to her (as quoted by Clarke): “‘Let’s quetiapine them today!’ And I asked him why quetiapine, and he said, ‘They put you successful nan champion hotels for conferences.’” As Clarke says, this is ludicrous, and surely nan only clip I person heard “quetiapine” utilized arsenic a verb, which strikes maine arsenic improbable.
Quetiapine has been a generic supplier since 2012 (ie unfastened to immoderate institution to manufacture and market, conscionable as, say, paracetamol is). I cannot judge that a inferior expert would prescribe it successful nan dream of being put up successful a “best hotel” for a conference.
It has agelong been nan first-line curen for psychosis, and for bully reason: it works. I person been connected quetiapine for 15 years. It’s not an enviable position to beryllium in, but I americium gladsome it exists, and grateful to those who person – rather rightly – prescribed it to me.
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