Posted by Bob on December 11, 2001, at 15:33:14
In reply to Re: verrrry interrrresting.... » Bob, posted by IsoM on December 11, 2001, at 14:52:36
IsoM:
I think scenarios such as the ones you and I describe are being played out all over the country everyday. I don't think people want to believe it when you tell them. I too spent a LOT of time in bed when I came off Effexor. I was worse physically than I'd ever been in my life.
It's not surprising to me that you think it has permanently changed you. I have often had this feeling with every major drug I've tried: Anafranil, Effexor, Depakote/Welbutrin, and Topomax. Especially Topomax. I'm still waiting for the day they find out these things effect extremely long term (almost permanent) changes in certain portions of the population. I won't be suprised if studies start showing up like that one day. My theory is that these drugs are especially effective for reasonably healthy people who experience exogenously generated depression and get it treated quickly. Endogenous cases are much more complicated since the underlying biology was not right to begin with. For a person like this, the destabilization of withdrawing from these drugs is quite destructive. Even if it doesn't last forever... how many people can get through it without additional pharmacological help? It's worse than many cases of depression themselves.
Once again, though, many cannot survive without the meds, so it seems like we're pretty much stuck.
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