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thanks!!

Posted by joslynn on April 14, 2004, at 8:38:29

In reply to Re: It's called PROPAGANDA » Racer, posted by cubbybear on April 14, 2004, at 3:18:40

Thanks for the info. People here obviously know their stuff. I feel less panicky about all this now. I will talk to my pdoc about it in a couple weeks when I see him again. He is usually good at explaining scientific things and I will see him for 50 minutes, so it should be a long discussion.

The scary thing is, if the doctors are not being given all the info...well no matter how good they are, they won't know the whole story.

I agree, it does seem like a lot of the anti-depressant camp are really saying that they should not be prescribed for ordinary life disappointments, not that they should be eliminated completely. I was suicidal and not sleeping or eating before I started taking them, so I think they were a good choice for me.

However, while I have had two severe depressions, they were very spread out, and in between I wasn't on meds. So the question is...do I really need them forever or will that second episode be the last, even if I go off meds? Unfortunately, there is no way to predict what will happen.

I wish there was some test where they could say, your depression was helped XX% by talk therapy, XX% by lifestyle changes and only X% by the meds. So you can stop taking the meds if you keep up the other changes.

But there is no test at this point to show that. I will have to find out first hand, if I really want to know. In a way, I am my own guinea pig.


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