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This document describes the prescribing of multiple psychiatric drugs for a mental health condition. It is about children but exactly the same thing applies to adults.
If you have a mental health problem, then a drug that treats just that problem is all you want.
One illness one drug: for Schizophrenia that means one anti-psychotic drug only. The reality appears to be that people taking multiple psycho-active drugs rarely if ever get well.

My own experience with this was as follows.
I was on the anti-psychotic Amisulpride (Solian) and was rather depressed. This was probably largely the result of being out of work at that time, and having nothing to occupy my mind.
I started taking St Johns Wort, with no side-effects. My doctor became aware, and insisted I take citalopram (Celexa) as it was “safer” with the amisulpride.

The next day I woke up feeling awful, and went back to bed for the remainder of the day. The day after, I felt awful, but also felt I needed a drink – Whisky. With the whisky I felt a bit more normal, but still spend as much time as I could sleeping, just to avoid feeling bad. I stuck with it somehow for 30 days, which was when the antidepressant was supposed to be effective.
All the time I spent either pacing the room, sleeping or drinking whisky.
Then I jacked it in.
Felt better in a couple of days, with a slight “sloshing of the brain” feeling when I moved my head too fast, which lasted for about a week.

It was all uphill from there – I moved on to fish oil.

Combinations of strong drugs that affect the mind are unstudied and unproven. It is just guesswork by doctors.

Look at it like this:

You may like alcohol. You may like cannabis. You may like something a bit stronger, like ecstasy. You probably find each of them fine. But put them all together, and you are likely to get a completely different and unexpected result, which is highly unlikely to be pleasant.

Prescription Drug Cocktails: Just Say No!