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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 [
** 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.<br />
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had one where Bart takes "Focusyn" to combat ADHD, and it makes him wicked paranoid. Major League Baseball is out to get us! Turns out...Major League Baseball ''was'' out to get us. Not quite a [[Broken Aesop]], not quite a [[Rule
* In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Flash villain The Trickster isn't actually a bad sort, but only taking his medication "when he's down" means he's also open to the delusions that make him go out and commit crimes. At the time Flash confronts him, both over the medication and to find out information, he isn't even aware he's in costume until it's pointed out to him. Said scene was an in-joke of sorts to the dramatic difference between the short-lived live action ''[[The Flash (TV)|The Flash]]'' series, which portrayed Trickster as an insane Joker-rip off and the comic version of Trickster, who is more or less a villainous conman, who by the late 1990s had fallen into [[Anti-Hero]] territory as far as aiding the Flash against his former villainous allies. The fact that cartoon Trickster was voiced by [[Mark Hamill]], who played the live action version of Trickster (as well as voicing the Joker in the [[DCAU]]) added to the wink-wink to the audience.
* In one episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Bobby is (apparently mis-) diagnosed with ADD, and abandoning the medication is seen as good. In another, however, Kahn goes off his manic-depression meds and despite his mania practically being a [[Disability Superpower]], it's soon apparent that he ''really needed'' those pills.
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