Posted by ace on March 12, 2003, at 0:28:54
In reply to Re: Atypical OCD - URGENT med suggestions needed NOW!!, posted by Questionmark on March 11, 2003, at 0:53:03
> Also, i wanted to mention something to you. Not to be condescending, anxiety-provoking, or discouraging at all, but... i'm convinced that psychiatric drugs can VERY often lose their efficacy after awhile (though it varies widely of course).
I disagree with this statement. I do not really believe psychiatric medications poop-out much at all. Most MDs I have spoke to never even have heard of it! I believe poop-out represents many variant things but not the actual medication ceasing to act in a therapeutic way. Of course I'm not sure, but it seems as if this phenomenon is specific to people. For example, ANY drug will 'apparently cease' to work with them. But others can take any drug for a life time with no probs. Are these specific poop-out people just getting used to the phenomenological change in themselves and seeing it as 'now' normal, and then (as all humans do) wishing to reach a greater level of happiness? Does poop-out represent latent/undiagnosed Bipolar D/O.
Is poop-out the result of the ceasing of an initial placebo response?I'm not sure, but I can tell you I'm not worried about any med pooping-out on me, and I am sceptical of the whole phenomenon.
Ace.
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