Posted by steve on March 9, 2001, at 21:52:50
In reply to Re: treatment resistant depression » steve, posted by JahL on March 9, 2001, at 16:56:55
The sad thing is that there are credible epidemiological estimates putting the number of deaths due to ssri activation at roughly 50,000. Atypicals rarely if ever kill themselves, but melancholics do, particularly when overstimulated.
As for finding competent doctors, in my experience that has been pretty hard. If you want a good critique of the dangers and untold side-effects of psychotropics, www.skepticalpsych.com or Breggin's "Your med might be your problem" are great places to start reading. I don't agree with their absolute hostility to bio psychiatry, which isn't factual, but reading about all the shenanigans, ignorance and outright lies made by paid for researchers certainly was an eye-opener.
S.
> Steve. On this one I am COMPLETELY in agreement with you (makes a change, huh?). I fit yr description of 'melancholic depressive' and found that the SSRIs, Nardil etc did indeed worsen my depression (pdocs insisted that ADs *couldn't* exacerbate depression-how ignorant can you get? Can you see why I've practically given up on them?), specifically by making me more agitated.
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> As your pdoc predicts, Lamotrigine has been by far the best drug so far & it's still early days.
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> Jah.
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