HAVE YOU EVER HEARD “TRANQUILIZER”?

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ranquilizer simply is a drug used to reduce anxiety, fear, tension, and related states of mental disturbance. Tranquilizers are divided into two main categories which are minor tranquilizer usually referring to anxiolytics and major tranquilizer usually referring to antipsychotics.

While major tranquilizer is most used to treat major state of mental disorder in schizophrenics and the psychotic, minor tranquilizer is effective to treat mental illness in low level such as anxiety, tension or slight stress. In another words, minor tranquilizer is a drug that acts on the central nervous system and is used to calm, decrease anxiety, or help a person to sleep. Both types of tranquilizers were first introduced in the 1950s as a way to manage patients emotionally calm and quiet. Now, it also becomes an alternative way for those who are trying to cope or put up with the everyday anxieties, tension, and sleeplessness in normal lives.

In daily lives, minor tranquilizers are often used to treat: anxiety (A feeling of uneasiness and distress about something in the future) and insomnia (Inability to go to sleep). These aforementioned mental diseases are quite familiar to a lot of people at all ages in the modern lives. The imbalance between private and working life leads us to so many problems along with the negative feelings. That is when you find Tranquilizer as an escape and use it regularly when it only should be taken in prescribed doses for short periods of time. As a result, these users may experience unpleasant withdrawal symptoms if they suddenly stop taking them or eventually need to take larger doses to maintain a feeling of well-being. Moreover, over-use of this kind of drug may drive people to hostile and aggressive, and leave them with unclear vision, memory loss, disorganized thinking, headaches, and depression.

For another diseases such as Psychosis (A major psychiatric disorder characterized by the inability to tell what is real from what is not real) and Schizophrenia (A serious mental illness characterized by isolation from others and thought and emotional disturbances), major tranquilizers can be used as a treatment. However, they should be given by doctors and patients should take medicine when having supervisor.

Although technically there are major and minor tranquilizers, the word "tranquilizer" is commonly understood as the minor class of drugs that treat anxiety and insomnia probably because they are the most frequently prescribed type of drug in the world.