Posted by San on February 13, 2001, at 20:00:36
In reply to antidepressants are drugs, drugs are drugs, posted by dennis on February 11, 2001, at 15:42:53
> It seems to me that taking antidepressants is a lot like taking small doses of amphetamines or cocaine. If you think about it, people who take ADs suffer the same problems as people useing these illegal drugs, and people useing ADs can feel euporic. All the drugs work in slightly different ways but they all affect the same chemicals in your brain, such as seritonin or dopamine for example. Users of ADs experience withdrawal after stoping the drug, they can build a tolerance to the drug needing higher doses and eventually experience AD poopout, a person useing ADs can have problems with proper mental functioning. I have also noticed that when a antidepressant works, the improved mood or happiness feels very artificial, not exactly the kind of happy feeling you would feel if you were drug free. It seems to me that drugs like amphetamines and other illegal drugs that we as a society have classified as dangerous and haveing no medical value are exactly like antidepressants drugs. It seems to me that SSRIs are not fixing a chemical imbalance in the brain, they are makeing a chemical imbalance in the brain which makes the person feel better. Thats the way I see it, I just thought I would share my view of ADs with you.
> Cut all the intellectual, philophical postulating on the "true nature of psychotropic medications." I really don't care whether my "happiness" is "artificial" or not. All I know is when I was severely depressed, I lost my job and could have lost everything I have. Now, because I take AD "drugs" and am able to get out of bed, go to work everyday, and earn a regualr paycheck instead of taking up space on the welfare rolls as mentally disabled. If I had to eat a pile of poo every morning to keep functioning in this world, I would do it! Thank God it's only a few pills at bedtime.---San
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