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Re: not reversible damage because of ssri treatmen » linkadge

Posted by fuzz54 on October 3, 2007, at 11:42:50

In reply to Re: not reversible damage because of ssri treatmen, posted by linkadge on October 2, 2007, at 21:54:01

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> I think there is some pretty compelling research that certain medicaitons can cause significant long term negative biological/structural changes.
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> The fact that schizophrenics are not made aware of certain issues with their medications is unsettling. Some doctors feel it is their right to make executive decisions for the patient. You can't blame them as I suppose it is as they were trained.
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> I don't understand people who are like, "well if it helps me now, who cares what it does to me long term".
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I agree completely on the long term effects of schizophrenic meds and perhaps bipolar meds to a lesser degree based on what I have read about them. But those meds are used to treat conditions more severe than a single depressive episode that needs a serotonin boost to go away.

As for my opinion on being willing to take a drug in the short-term that could have long term side effects, I'm talking about me being at the point of not being alive anymore. Being alive on a day-to-day basis is more important than what happens a year or 5 years later. I saw the pattern I was in of worsening depressions to the point where I knew what the outcome was going to be sooner or later. Through therapy and then SSRIs with therapy I have broken that cycle and probably saved my life. I'll deal with the side effects as they come up and be glad that I am alive. That's a choice though, and not a mandate for everyone in my situation.

That being said, people with side effects that put them in the same place as they were when they started the meds are in a different boat. And I guess that's where the risk is. You can't tell if you'll be one of those people before you start down the road of experimenting with psych meds. I think it would take years and years of studies to get a firm handle on that issue and get the news out to doctors, but I agree that is something worth doing and publicizing.


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