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• “These antipsychotic drugs -- including Abilify, Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa -- can lead to obesity, elevated blood sugar and diabetes, pancreatitis, cardiovascular abnormalities and a disfiguring and sometimes disabling movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Peter Breggin: The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

• “They compare this problem to tardive dyskinesia, caused by antipsychotic drugs, and call it tardive dysphoria, "an active process in which a depressive picture is caused by continued administration of the antidepressant.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Peter Breggin: New Research: Antidepressants Can Cause Long-Term Depression

• “Another, tardive akathisia, causes neurological sensations that are excruciating and drive the patient to move about in an effort to relieve them.”

  Dr. Peter Breggin: Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform

• “One variant called tardive dystonia results in agonizing muscle spasms, often leading to gross distortions in posture and gait.”

  Dr. Peter Breggin: Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform

• “In the case of patients with tardive akathisia, which feels like being tortured from the inside out, it's almost impossible to find lawyers willing to take the cases because there is nothing obvious to show the jury.”

  Dr. Peter Breggin: Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform

• “But it still carries some risk of those, as well as of restlessness, decreased white blood-cell count, and a condition called tardive dyskinesia, or involuntary repetitive movements of the limbs and body that can become permanent.”

  Consumer Reports: AdWatch: Abilify finds lucrative new audience

• “The drugs can also cause a serious movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia.”

  The Wall Street Journal: FDA OKs Schering-Plough Drug for Schizophrenia, Bipolar

• “Even psychiatrists who are typically suspicious of drug-company claims that the newer drugs have 'less side-effects' (the evidence suggests they just tend to have different ones) will admit that the older generation of antipsychotic drugs produced permanent and unpleasant undesired consequences, including uncontrollable facial contortions and movement problems (something called tardive dyskinesia).”

  Mind Hacks: Older antipsychotics give better quality of life?

• “Tardive diskinesia, tardive akathisia, tardive tourettism and NMS are all neurological disorders caused by the use of neuroleptics and SSRIs.”

  Rape and Abuse at Oregon State Hospital

• “These movements are manifestations of a coarse brain disorder and characterize the condition termed tardive dyskinesia 61.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

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