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** The episode "Haunted" is about a man who went off his antipsychotic meds (with the approval of his psychiatrist) in order to access repressed childhood memories. These memories end up being ''much'' worse than anyone had imagined, causing him to snap and go on a killing spree.
* The reason Billy goes off his meds in ''[[Six Feet Under]]''.
* This is one of ''[[House]]'' reasons to stop taking the Methadone, which cured his pain in the leg better than Vicodine, but he also felt that the lack of pain affected his deducting abilities. He uses the same argument in the first episodes of Season Six when Dr. Nolan insists in giving him [[wikipedia:Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor|SSRIs]], he's afraid of losing himself and his abilities. He ends up taking them, anyway.
** In the episode "No More Mr. Nice Guy" occurs a little variation of this trope: House employees test a sample of his blood without his consent and discover that he has neurosyphilis. They assume that the effect of the disease in his brain is the reason House is such a huge jerk. They prescribe him with a medication. Suddenly he starts acting a little nicer. All the employees then start asking themselves whether they did the right thing or if he is going to lose what makes him so unique. {{spoiler|In the end of the episode it was all a prank of House, of course}}
{{quote|'''Kutner:''' We gave Van Gogh chelation therapy. Turned him into a house painter.
'''Taub:''' Maybe not, maybe we just put Hitler on Ritalin. }}
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Diana from ''[[Next to Normal]]'' insists on this multiple times, most notably in "Didn't I See This Movie?", after her doctor recommends electro-shock therapy.
* Rebecca and Sara in ''[[Code 21]]'' feel this way, with good reason.
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': [[Erudite Stoner|Gamzee Makara]] is a nice guy who considers everybody his friends and would rather eat pies with imps than fight them. {{spoiler|[[Monster Clown|Then]] [[Kill'Em All|he]] [[Ax Crazy|sobers up...]]}}
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3187 Fuschia spits out her medicine]. Given that the problem is that [[Love Redeems|falling in love is making her better]], it ends better than most.
* A recent strip of ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' depicts Tycho looking over the last few strips he'd written while his Lexapro prescription had run out and marveling at his creativity. Gabe also called him out that during that time he was also [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/09 "wrestling with demons of the mind".]
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** Some cases of depression, especially mild to moderate depression, and even some major cases. Talk therapy and lifestyle modifications have a better proven track record based on evidence than most SSRIs for mild to moderate depression - the only problem is they require major changes in lifestyle and time to work, so medication may well be better for people who can't or don't wish to work with those or who are too depressed to begin working with either - but SSRIs and especially neuroleptics are not to depression what antibiotics are to infection, and can sometimes [[Gone Horribly Wrong|worsen depression or lead to suicide]]. That said, if you're already on medication it's generally best to stay on it - but if you've just been diagnosed depressed, and you're not currently hospitalized, looking into alternative treatment may be worth your time.
** Mild ADD/ADHD especially in very young children and in adults. In this case, the issue is risk of harm versus risk of reward. In very young children, ADD/ADHD can be easily misdiagnosed and one side effect is stunted growth. In adults, the heart disease and stroke risks of taking large doses of amphetamine-based ADD/ADHD medications may or may not be worth the reward of relief of symptoms.
** PTSD and complicated grief are the saddest cases of this. Due to their origin as traumatic life experiences as opposed to being from brain chemistry, they are incredibly difficult conditions to deal with using existing medications - with some sufferers, even ''self-medication'' is more effective than existing psychiatric medications (because neither, unless depression is comorbid, have much to do with serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine - the neurotransmitters existing meds work with the most). In fact, some medications may provide a temptation for abuse much as self-medication would, or a quick and available means of suicide. Survivors often do better, [[Earn Your Happy Ending|if they do]], with time, talk therapy, supportive environments, and learning coping strategies to deal with [[Trigger/
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