Posted by bigcat on January 8, 2006, at 16:09:40
In reply to Cycling » bigcat, posted by Tomatheus on January 6, 2006, at 20:40:57
Thomaseus:
I needed to write this instant to express my gratitude for the time and care you spent in replying to my posts. I am speechles regarding some of the things you said, things I understood subconsciously, but needed to hear from the outside in order to fully realize and appreciate. We MUST stay in communication, as not only do I have an immense amount of respect and awe for you're insights and writing, but I feel you're words have shed a layer of my feeling isolated and confused. I have a busy night ahead, but I will post a more comprehensive repsonse to you're suggestions and experiences later. I'll need a great deal of time, as you obviosly put a great amount of thought and concern into what you had the compassion and understanding to tell me.I am so glad the MAOI's are the right route for you. From what I have read, it seems like when they work, MAOI's can induce a 100% remission, while other classes seem to have glaring limitations. Perhaps the gretaest failure and oversight of the current psychiatric community is to dismiss the MAOI's as a viable first-line treatment because of dietary resptrictions and possible interactions. Having tried so many MAOI's for so long at such high doses, I have found that the diet fear is drastically overblown, a wholly misconceived hysteria that, clinically speaking, may actually provide a significantly lower risk of occuring than some of the possible side effects of supposedly "clean", more modern meds. With little money to gain off MAOI prescribing or marketing, they are pocketed away as radical, last-resort meds.
My father, a clinical psychopharmacologist for 30 years, Yale-trained, prescribes MAOI's as readily, if not more readily, than the SSRI's, no joke. My current doc pronounced Nardil "Nar-deel", and was looking in a handbook to read up on a med she knew virtually nothing about after I told her how brilliant its effect can be. Anyway, I have a load that I need to say, and we can clearly relate as far as our experiences are concerned, and I was absolutely blown away by you're intelligence and generosity in sharing so much with me. I look forward to writing in more detail when I have read the rest of your and Ed's posts, and have the time to properly respond.
Much Love,
-matt-
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