Is there an ideal cure for mental illnesses?

There are no ideal cures. In spite of the appearance of more and more new antipsychotic medications, which are often accompanied by the press comments on the permanent solution of the problem of mental illnesses, the same medications have been used for decades. This is because these disorders are diseases of very individual courses and each patient differently responds to medications. Both the antipsychotic effect and side effects caused by the same medication can be very different for different patients.
There are, of course, medications whose main side effects are definitely smaller – they are called. atypical neuroleptics. They differ from classical neuroleptics in having a minimal effect on the extrapyramidal system and thus do not produce the most troublesome side effects.
Another important characteristic of atypical neuroleptics is that they also affect the negative symptoms of mental illnesses. Patients taking these medications are more likely to get rid of symptoms of their illness (the so-called remission).
Thanks to the use of atypical neuroleptics, there are no negative symptoms of psychosis, and there is also some improvement in negative symptoms which have already had time to develop.
A growing group of patients are now treated with atypical neuroleptics. Owing to them patients can properly function socially, professionally and in their families.