Posted by jay on March 15, 2003, at 3:15:28
In reply to Re: Does your Pdoc believe your side-effects?? » Eggy, posted by Tabitha on March 15, 2003, at 2:43:25
Have a read through this following abstract.(below) Read the end about "crying in movies", and the author treats this like it is 'wrong' or means you are 'depressed'. (Oh, and how SSRI's can "cure" this!!) Fer gawd sakes...really, think about it. A drug that kills: artistic creativity; human emotion; natural healthy sex drive. For highly emotionaly, artistic oriented people like myself and many others, this is killing *what is human*!!Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2002 Dec;5(4):415-6
Emotional blunting, sexual dysfunction and SSRIs.
Balon R.Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
The recent interesting report on SSRI-associated emotional blunting and its possible association with SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction (Opbroek et al., 2002) presents a somewhat confusing concept and raises far more questions than it provides answers. First is the question of the concept of emotional blunting. The authors (Opbroek et al., 2002) state that up to 80% of their patients described 'a treatment emergent blunting of certain emotions'. Which of the symptoms or blunted emotions are part of the emotional blunting and which are part of the patient's personality or residual symptoms of depression? As the authors pointed out, their outcome measure for emotional blunting lacks evidence of validity (what about reliability?) and thus it is not clear what this scale really measures. Other reports on emotional blunting in the literature are not very clear about this concept, either. Hoehn-Saric et al. (1990) reported apathy, indifference, loss of initiative and disinhibition in panic disorder and depressed patients on SSRIs. In another report, Hoehn-Saric et al. (1991) described apathy, indifference, inattention, and perseveration in an obsessive-compulsive patient taking fluoxetine. These changes were associated with a decrease in cerebral blood flow in the frontal lobes on SPECT and changes in neuropsychological tests generally associated with frontal lobe impairment. Oleshansky and Labbate (1996) described rapid improvement of excessive or inappropriate crying, without apathy or indifference, in depressed patients treated with SSRIs. Similarly, Vinar (2000) reported that eight depressed women spontaneously mentioned that for years they cried during moving scenes in the theatre, cinema, or on TV.
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