Posted by darkhorse on January 13, 2005, at 7:36:22
In reply to Re: Thanx darkhorse, any questions, please! » neo, posted by phillipa on January 13, 2005, at 0:37:03
Hello all,
What is an antidepressant anyway???
If any substance that can provide an elevation of mood and a feeling-good attitude and a healthy positive look at life,sociability,motivation..will this be considered a bad thing,and immediatly be labeled "euphoria", "hypomania"..etc.
I do not believe this.
Are we stuck with this fixed idea that any substance that is considered an AD MUST affect serotonin/noradernaline?????
Is the human brain that simple and that limited,or are we being swept and brainwashed by those giant companies that want to profit from our misery????
Is ALL our "biological" symptoms which varies a lot,and all our agonies are that simple to be solved around 2 simple elements in our brain??
I do not think so...
Let us look back before this age of the SSRIs :
In the 50's and up until the 70's the word "depression" was very rarely encountered (same as OCD),but everybody was anxiuos and had neuorosis.
Every one used benzos for all their "neurosis"
Surprisngly,in 80's and until now, every one and all those who continued to live got "depressed","OCD" and every one was switched to the wonder SSRis ,SNRis,NRis..etc
Did people got better?? was there a real major improvement from the people who lived before the 80's,or are we more miserable??
Is it a coincedence that the whloe world suddnly realized that they are not anxious but depressed and that at the same time those giant companies gave the world the soluotin in an SSRi pill.(if it dose not affect 5ht , then it is not an AD).
When I took Prozac and all those antidepressant,it may have got rid of some of my symptoms but left me uncaring,unsociable,unmotivated,sexless&fat.
When I took Xanax and some other substances,it made me happy,motivated,self-confident..
(This is just an example,I'm not saying that BZ are better...just questioning this bainwashed fixed ideas about this 5ht/NA fixation ).
Is it a sin or wrong to have your mood lifted and be happy with a pill?
I think we are living in an age that lost its purity:
Drug companies are doing everything for the money,they keep on "invinting" disorders to fit a pill and magnify this "disorder" to profit,and I think that this example of anxiety/depression,benzos/SSRis are very clear example.
What do you think all of you.
Any ideas and input will be highly appreciated.
Dark Horse.
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