Posted by linkadge on May 20, 2006, at 3:03:59
In reply to Re: Statistical question on SSRIs - ADDENDUM » Squiggles, posted by Larry Hoover on May 16, 2006, at 11:44:42
"It is a class effect of pharmacological treatment of mood disorders. If you're going to treat depression with drugs, you get this effect."
Thats not true at all. Its called SSRI induced akathesia. Some drugs induce more akathesia. Some drugs have a higher likelihood of inducing such events. To try and package it all as one deal is foolish, and reeks of carelessness.
The shear body of evidence, for instance, indicates that lithium prevents suicides better than depakote does. That is statistically significant. It is not a "bipolars are going to blow off their heads anyway so it doesn't really matter much what we give them".
There are better treatments, and there are worse treatments.
Some antidepressants made me suicidal, others did not. No, I don't know the exact mechanism, but I sure don't think that it was just coincidence. Just like citalopram gave me anorgasmia and remeron did not. Drug induced suicidality is not a general consequence of drug treatment of depression, and if it is currently, then it needent be. A drug should make you better, not worse.
Opium never made a depressed suicidal insomniac want to jump off a bridge. If somebody is about to jump of a bridge, shoot them in the leg with a dart of MDMA. I'm shure they'd first step off the ledge, then they'd come give you a warm hug for saving their life.
It's called SSRI's are lousy. We simply need better antidepressants.
Good antidepressants work.
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