Posted by SLS on July 19, 2006, at 5:31:08
In reply to Re: couldn't have said it better myself, posted by cecilia on July 18, 2006, at 21:52:38
> > > Perhaps, but that doesn't really help when you're in the other 15%.
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> > Nor does it help the 15% to disable the institutions dedicated to discovering ways to treat it.
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> > - Scott
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> I certainly would never tell anyone not to try AD's. Certainly if 85% eventually find something that helps that's pretty good. But the remaining 15% is still a huge number of people. A pdoc who sees 100 patients a week will have 15 of them not respond to anything. (Probably a lot more than that, since many people get their 1st and 2nd AD's tried from their GPs and only go to a pdoc if those don't work.) Pdocs certainly don't tell people those odds. You see public service TV commercials "Depression is treatable". They don't say "Depression is treatable unless you're in the unlucky 15%." It makes me angry.Me too. Me too.
Which tricyclic did you combine with Parnate?
- Scott
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