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Re: the brain

Posted by bassman on September 17, 2006, at 10:53:02

In reply to Re: the brain, posted by linkadge on September 17, 2006, at 10:34:25

I agree completely-empirically, some drugs just help some symptoms. Does that mean we know the mechanism? No. Does it mean we should stop taking them? No. I like the comment about, e.g. SSRI's, being such very safe drugs that the benefit/risk ratio is pretty high even for sub-clinical depression, for example. If I feel lousy all day, drag myself through the day, but am generally functional, it really becomes an issue of "happiness" (whatever than means). If I now take 20 mg Prozac or whatever and life takes on a new brightness, it may well be worth it. So now I take the AD and increase the percentage of people that are taking AD's, but that doesn't mean that there are more depressed people-back to empiricism-the only thing we know for sure is more people are taking AD's. Thanks Scott and Linkadge, I always learn something by reading your posts!


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