Posted by mike lynch on July 3, 2007, at 19:25:24
In reply to Re: paxil - permanent hell ????? » mike lynch, posted by linkadge on July 3, 2007, at 8:50:20
> Thats exactly the problem. If you're withdrawing from heroin, you get medical treatment. Heroin abusers are breaking the law! Yet law abiding citicens people who are suffering withdrawl from prescription SSRI's get ZERO support.
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> I'd even recomend using opiates over SSRI's. SSRI's rewire the human brain. When you come off its not just simple withdrawl, its the fact that your brain will not work the same again. Heroin withdrawl is painfull, but once its over you usually don't have residual symptoms like say...inability to walk in a straight line?
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> There should really be rehabilitation programs for survivors of SSRI's. Sure some people don't have too much problem, but I am working under the assumption that the young (ie the developing brain) has a harder time adjusting if it was developed around a drug. People who have taken the drugs longer ususally also have a harder time getting off.
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> And the doctors just follow the b.s. package inserts. "What, withdrawl??...no, if there was withdrawl, it would be listed here on this insert"
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> They either just believe the drug companies, or just don't want to make trouble.
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> Linkadge
And the reason for this is because the professionals have no problem admitting heroin is harmful, yet I've heard many stories of doctors who don't even accept the premise of withdrawal with anti-depressants, which is the most hellish aspect of the drug. Withdrawal has only recently gained acknowledgment as "discontinuation syndrome" The pharmaceutical industry knew about it all along, just like the studies that were repressed citing suicidal idealation in children under 18 which led to the drug being banned in several european countries. SSRI's have been out for decades and the pharmaceutical industry is just now, reluctantly revealing these facts. I swear I would rather have been addicted to heroin or even crystal meth, because honestly I've never heard of these long lasting problems resulting from either. I am *past* withdrawal and I am still experience this sh*t. I see meth users being interviewed in documentaries and I don't see them forgetting words, acting slow, or dead. Seriously you can recover from even hardcore drug abuse, but I just can't get passed this. Why does serotonin have to be so vitally important in every aspect of human functioning.
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