Posted by Francesco on August 25, 2003, at 12:43:39
In reply to Re: some thoughts about side-effects, posted by KimberlyDi on August 25, 2003, at 10:59:10
Thanks Kimberly, I still believe in what I wrote in the post but I labelled it as "stupid" because I couldn't see the point in it. Part of our problem is, as you said, the vice of over-analyse anything that regards us. But once you know that SSRIs, for example, have sex side effects, is extremely difficult not to think about them while you're having sex (which worsen the quality of sex of course). So my post was, above all, the expression of a regret: what I wanted to say is that my quality of life was better when I didn't know anything about side effects of any sort. This I suppose is the reason why docs don't like to talk about side-effects ... if you tell someone that that med can cause sexual dysfunctions he will experience almost inevitably sexual dysfunctions. I don't know which is the solution of the dylemma (right to be informed vs. right to be cured in the best way) but I don't think that reading all these post about meds has helped my mental health. If part of the effects of the meds is placebo, and at least a part it is, being informed about every possibile side-effect is the worse way to let the placebo kicks in. So my purpose for the new year is following my pdoc prescriptions and stop monitoring myself to discover how much irritable I am. Blaming the meds for my irritability in fact makes my irritability worse, and besides, in these days I'm very irritable and I'm not taking any meds.
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