Quetiapine 25mg: Sedative, Not Antipsychotic

Quetiapine at 25mg isn’t an antipsychotic—at this dose, it’s more like a powerful sedative

through antihistamine! Given 25mg for sleep or anxiety? You're not being treated for psychosis.

Quetiapine is a shape-shifter medication, doing different jobs at different doses.

At lower doses such as 25mg or 50mg, it doesn’t really mess with dopamine. Instead,

it’s all about that histamine H1 receptor hit. That’s why it knocks you out,

revs up your appetite, and gives you that heavy, deep sleep everyone talks about.

Bump up the dose to 300mg or more? And it's a whole different story—welcome to the antipsychotic

zone, where the dopamine blockade is the real deal. Same drug,