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Psychiatric Meds | Dr. Chris Palmer

4 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dara Ladjevardian highlights a major problem in mental health treatment: many psychiatric medications cause significant weight gain, with some patients gaining up to 100 pounds in a year. She emphasizes that not all drugs have the same side‑effect profile, but the overall trend links mental health treatment to worsening physical health. While she does not intend to dismiss psychiatric medications entirely, she argues that the current standard of care is counterproductive, creating a dangerous disconnect between mental and physical well‑being. Ladjevardian calls for an urgent shift in treatment practices, stressing that lives are at stake and that suffering could be reduced if the field addresses these metabolic side effects promptly.

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We in the mental health field prescribe pills that cause obesity. That cause it. Cause it. We give people pills and they gain 100 pounds in one year. And again, not all of the pills have the same side effects. So I'm not here to berate psychiatric meds altogether. But the most disruptive part about linking physical health with mental health is that so many of our standard treatments are doing exactly the opposite of what we want to do. And it needs to change as soon as possible because lives are at stake and human beings are suffering.