Posted by psychobot5000 on February 2, 2007, at 21:29:02
In reply to Re: alprazolam, lorazepam and SSRIs, posted by psychobot5000 on February 2, 2007, at 17:27:20
I've done a little more reading, and I thought I'd note that, apparently, the conventional medical view of this is that benzodiazepines can all produce "symptomatic" results on the HAM-D and MADRS tests, thus seeming to show remission, when they're actually not dealing with the depression. Just relieving the 'distress' type symptoms--which those rely heavily on. ...So, that said, the lorazepam + paxil results may not be significant.
However, I've also read various research that seems to suggest that several benzodiazepines--alprazolam mostly, possibly lorazepam--are different, and seem to have an independent antidepressant action.
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