Posted by MB on July 19, 2001, at 18:02:26
In reply to Re: Perfect Drug for Everyone?, posted by JohnL on July 19, 2001, at 15:47:04
> I'm curious as to why you believe this. I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm not sure why it should be taken for granted as being true...
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> > Maybe someday, with research based on the human genome, there will be a perfect drug for everyone, but there sure isn`t now. At least I haven`t found one and I`ve tried the following: Desipramine, Trazodone, Doxepin, Prozac, Nardil, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutin, Effexor, Imipramine, Amitriptyline, Serzone, Buspar, Atenolol, Anafranil, St. John`s Wort, Remeron, thyroid supplement, lithium, Nortriptyline, Celexa, Neurontin, SAM-e, Ritalin, Dexedrine, Zyprexa, Parnate, Xanax, Clonazepam, Amisulpride, Reboxetine, Luvox, and Adrafinil.
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> I'm sorry folks, I didn't mean to stir things up. I believe there is a great drug for everyone because I have seen it happen over and over, that's all, both here and at my pdoc's office. Granted, at this board we have especially tough cases, so a perfect drug seems like a pipedream. And sometimes it takes years to find that drug. Perhaps my choice of the word 'perfect' was a bit much, and I apologize for that.
Hey man, don't apologise on my account. I wasn't trying to imply that you were wrong for your belief, I just wanted to discuss it :-) I used to say the same thing about there being a perfect drug out there waiting for me...and then I thought, "what if it's *not* out there, what if it hasn't been developed yet..." So I decided that maybe there *is* a "cure" out there, maybe not (for me, I mean).
> In my own opinion the most critical thing to give anyone who is suffering is hope. Without hope, there is nothing. I lost count a long time ago of the desperate cases that eventually found their perfect, well, great, drug. And as I read the long list of drugs that we have all tried, the best ones are continually absent from those lists. All too often we spend years trying one antidepressant or mood stabilizer after another and accidentally ignore the wonderful drugs available in other psychiatric categories.
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> Anyway, again, I am sorry for stirring things up. Didn't mean to do that. I meant to give hope, based on real life experiences I have witnessed.
> John
John, I think your optomism is refreshing. Again, please don't apologize on my account. I am a chronic pessimist; that's part of my, well, "neurosis" if you want to call it that. I could probably use any hope you throw my way. Thanks. Peace
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