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Has anyone ever tried it?
If so have you seen improvements in attention?
Feel free to tell me how they effected you?

This was posted on Web MD;


$8 Billion Award in Risperdal Lawsuit

A lawsuit over the antipsychotic drug Risperdal has led to an $8 billion punitive damages award against Johnson & Johnson and one of its subsidiaries.

The award was handed out Tuesday by a Philadelphia jury. The plaintiff's attorneys argued that the drug is linked to abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys, the Associated Press reported.
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In a statement, attorneys Tom Kline and Jason Itkin said Johnson & Johnson used an organized scheme to make billions of dollars while illegally marketing and promoting the drug.

Johnson & Johnson said the award is "excessive and unfounded" and that it would take immediate action to overturn it, the AP reported.

If this is the same drug, you might want to be careful.

Do you mean risperidone?

I take haloperidol for tics but there's a lot of risks associated with it (getting tardive dyskinesia for one) so my psychiatrist let me try risperidone. It made me feel weak and shaky with low grade constant nausea. This would not do because I was doing some college courses at the time and feeling crappy all the time sucked.

So it was back to good ol' haloperidol.

Glad to see J&J is being pulverised again. I've boycotted them for years and they have several harmful products on the market including billions of dollars in lawsuits against their name.

That warning is on the Risperidone leaflet so I don't know how they won the case, but good for them.

Down with J&J ! !

Thanks but the drug is doing me just fine. I don't have any side effects, except getting sleepy. You can say it's making me sleep better.
I just wanted to know if it has any effect on cognition because I'm experiencing better cognition right now and trying to find out if that is caused by depression or ADHD.

sorry latency, I didn't see your OP.

Somehow I thought tim tex was the OP.

I did use Risperidone (not made by J&J) to control very severe BFRB which lead to self-harm.

It wasn't intended to stop all my stims, just the thought patterns and urges that led to injurious behaviour.

It worked quite well. Be careful because you can gain a lot of weight on it. I didn't, but many people do.

It can also lead to tardive dyskinesia.

I took it for about eighteen months and now I'm managing OK without it.

It didn't do anything to help my attention or focus. I had ADHD testing and started ADHD meds for that.

Then maybe the effect is from treating depression. Don't worry about me the meds are doing me good so far.
I have tics, probably chronic, they're reduced now but not by that much.

I took Risperdal years ago. It was very helpful but I had a strange side effect from it. Now I take Clozaril.

In my case, it was a disaster. I got all the extrapyramidal side effects, my whole body felt like I had to conciously control every muscle to even walk. My mind was foggy and tired. My body was weak and out of control.
I couldn't do any of the things I normally do to cope with life.
The anxiety and mental pain didn't drop an inch. I was a suffering vegetable.
Would not recommend... unless you're really psychotic instead of misdiagnosed as such.

It never did much for me except help me sleep and make me hungry. It is one of the countless drugs I've tried for sleep.

What is being psychotic?

Mainly delusions and/or hallucinations.
Mind producing false realities and not distinguishing them from the real reality.

I had anxiety, depression and dissociative disorders but my mind never produced non-existent realities. On the contrary, I doubted the actual reality because of my dissociation.
I was blantantly misdiagnosed.
Changing the doctor and switching to antidepressants, rest and thorough psychotherapy (mainly emotion recognition training) dug me out of this hellhole. Now I'm sane (I've learned to recognize it when insanity strikes) and fully functional on a slower but surer pace than I used to before my breakdown.

Then no, I'm not psychotic. I had a fantasy world as a kid but I got out of that pretty early on.