Question:
There was a research I read some time ago that said that neuroleptics cause atrophy (brain damage) like tardive dyskenisia and that the number of demdrites increase in the brain when the brain cells can't communicate with eachother due to the drugs: So they grow more dendrites. I wonder what that does. I've been on medication for seven years. There were times when I didn't take drugs and had a psychosis. So I don't suggest you into not taking drugs but I wonder if anyone knows more about this. My psychiarist didn't say anything when I told him about the reseach. He just went silent.

Answer: My psychiatrist once told me about the demdrites growing and that being a cause why I needed more meds on the long run. The first 10 years I was on a very low dose of meds but it has increased the last years. Tardive diskenisia is one form of brain damage that even a normal person recognizes as brain damage you don't have to be a psychiatrist for that. However TD is not so common an maybe even rare.

This one is quite hard because I can site research on the net which says the exact opposite: namely that if you develop a psychosis then you are more likely to suffer brain damage as a result and the medication stops this by acting as a so-called buffer. The psych probably went quiet because you gave him suspicion perhaps that you were intending to stop your meds? - a psychiatrist's most common complaint he encounters.