Posted by zeugma on July 7, 2004, at 16:59:51
In reply to Re: Glenmullen is not credible, posted by linkadge on July 7, 2004, at 16:25:20
> Believing one thing or another may help your mood, but it is unlikely to alter the fact that a medication may be damaging the brain.
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> I am very depressed now, but I don't want to have to take 500mg of prozac in the future, just to feel normal in the retirement home.
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> Linkadgelinkadge,
No doubt antidepressants damage the brain, but depression itself damages the brain. Glenmullen's book (I've skimmed it in barnes and Nobles) is mostly anecdotes about how SSRI's have been overprescribed and how the drugs are less innocuous than pharm companies and zealous psydocs would have us believe. He's a stap up from Breggin in that his analyses are more sophisticated, but essentially he is saying that depression is treatable with talk therapy, and we know that in serious cases that in itself is a harmful lie (I have been in 'talk therapy' all my life, and if it worked I would not be here in misery trying to find some answer in pharmacology. in fact psychotherapy itself can be destructive, and people have written books on that too.)
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