Posted by Larry Hoover on May 10, 2006, at 11:39:18
In reply to Re: suicide and AD effect » pseudoname, posted by linkadge on May 9, 2006, at 18:47:47
> I guess what I am trying to say is that SSRI's can *really* put a spin on how your brain has learned to deal with its problems. For some, this may be leading up to an antidepressant effect, but for others it may just create more caos.
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> These are just some of my theories.
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> LinkadgeI'm very impressed by your ability to lay out these details of receptor function so cleanly.
I have no doubt that SSRIs are powerful meds. Behaviourally, on SSRIs, I did things that are not part of my normal. I thought thoughts that were not part of my normal. I entered a psychotic mania, under their influence. I am not naive.
What was missing, though, was proper medical management. There was a society-wide subliminal decision to simply think of SSRIs as benign medication. Even the doctors got hoodwinked. I remember seeing Prozac on the cover of Time magazine. Nobody was talking about sexual dysfunction, or any of that. No, these pills were different.
I think we, collectively, have begun to abolish the misrepresentation of these meds. In the spirit of getting it right, though, I also want to ensure that we don't substitute another erroneous belief system for the existing miracle drug 'chemical imbalance' propaganda. Let's make sure that what we say is founded on data. Science, the knowing, is in the data.
Lar
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