Posted by linkadge on November 17, 2006, at 19:59:45
In reply to Being High VS not being depressed, posted by Tom Twilight on November 17, 2006, at 10:50:04
I totally agree, there is an "opiate" theory to depression. Many of the SSRI's and TCA's share common opioid mechanisms.
Opiates need not make you high. It is possable to take enought to relieve depression without feeling high or or being intoxicated. The same thing goes with marajuanna. A few puffs eased anxiety, and insomnia like no other med, but was completely insufficiant to induce euphoria.
It is conterproductive for us to be trying to quanitfy hapiness such ridged categories. The SSRI's are useless for many people's deep melancholy, which leaves them 1 of 3 options.
1. Suffer
2. Commit suicide
3. Take drugs that they know will help.People's main excuse is....well that relief is going to be temporary so why bother.
The same thing goes for Electro Convulsive Therapy. Its effects are often only temporary, get you can get a doctor to thrust this brain dammaging option on you.
So I get addicted to opitates, so what? They're probably kinder on the body and brain than SSRI's, and they might work in the process.
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