Posted by JaclinHyde on April 10, 2006, at 15:01:02
In reply to Re: ADs have ruined me. whom else has been HURT by » Doug_Saving_The_team, posted by Caedmon on April 10, 2006, at 14:06:11
I agree with you C. Doug there is something more going on than just the meds. With a big hug I say look in the mirror buddy and not at the drugs. Drugs are not a cure all but they are not evil either. Lke C said depression itself can cause a lot of the things you are suffering from. You need a really good doctor to work with you, to help you get your feet on the ground and moving forward. What's done is done, whatever that may be so leave it behind and move on. You can do it...you are strong and smart. Just let the anger at the meds be in the past and you'll find yourself a happier and healthier you.
With sincere caring,
JH
> > For starters, you have isolated several variables in this comparison: in high school, pre-AD I had near perfect grades. After ADs, they fell by a letter grade on average.>
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> So, post hoc ergo propter hoc?
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> That isn't an isolation in variables; senior year is typically hardest. You still managed to graduate with good grades. I'm also not sure that "a letter grade on average" is necessarily statistically significant in your case study or if it can be adequately explained by ADs alone, rather than the underlying depression that the meds were designed to treat. (Depression can cause cognitive problems as well.)
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> I also fail to see how you can quantify your college experience if you have not been off ADs, as a comparison.
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> You sound tremendously determined to blame your antidepressants for your troubles, even though no one forced you to take them, and you haven't a point of comparison. Is it possible that this is a convenient "out" for you? Or that perhaps your anger is in some ways justified, but in other ways it's exaggerated? I would merely question, politely, the assumptions you are making - and questioning them in the interests of mutual understanding and support.
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> Lastly, you may wish to revise to a degree your writing punctuation. When a person capitalizes words, it gives the impression that the capitalized word is either very emphatically said, or perhaps yelled. By capitalizing words frequently, it gives me the impression that you are yelling. That might have actually been your intention, or it might not have, I'm merely saying that so that you understand how I'm percieving your writings.
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> I have not read anyone say that ADs were a "cure-all" neither has anyone implied it. It has been frequently mentioned, on this thread and others, the many potential downsides to antidepressant therapy. If someone is saying such a thing, I sure don't see it. <shrug>
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> - C
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