Posted by hiba on November 6, 2002, at 1:24:41
In reply to Re: Convinced At last ! Welcome back Alan! » hiba, posted by Squiggles on November 4, 2002, at 7:15:26
> In my case, my doctors were ready to give me
> an additional, no a third antidepressant and
> take away the benzo, WAYYY before the Benzo
> group made any noise; i refused both, knowing
> the benzo had caused inter-dose withdrawal,
> asked for lowering of the Synthroid, and i have
> never had a panic attack since.
>
> I'm just darn lucky, these doctors were so
> nice and cooperated with me. Osler said
> "listen to your patient, he is giving you the
> diagnosis" and perhaps he rubbed off on them,
> coming from the same neck of the woods;
>
> The point is, that the the practice you speak
> of was there before the benzo noise.
>
> Squiggles
So Dear Squiggles,Do you think that practice is anyway right ? What is more affordable to a patient? A slight medical dependence or call it addiction or an irreversible physical damage ?
Still you can argue a physical damage could be the root of physiological dependence. But anyway it is reversible. Consider it short term or protracted, the symptoms will resolve over time and only a person with an underlying disorder will find it hard to come off benzos completely. "The fault here is not in our stars, but in ourselves"
But the case of APs or ADs are not the same. APs can cause "tardive dyskinesia" which is irreversible. ADs cause significant pschological dependence, that a patient seldom reaches pre-drug level once he is familiarized with Antidepressants. In my experience SSRIs are the worst in this regard. I don't feel depressed anymore, but when I try to come off prozac, it is not depression that comes back, but a hollow-feeling which I hate most.
HIBA
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