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Re: That Way Lies Madness

Posted by linkadge on October 23, 2007, at 20:21:06

In reply to Re: That Way Lies Madness, posted by unbottled on October 23, 2007, at 15:06:06

>The problem is that some folks are
>nostalgic for nineteenth century non-answers.
>Accusations of meds takers as "sitting on
>their behinds" is a dead giveaway.

The 20th century is full of nonanswers too.

I never said that med-takers were sitting on their behinds. I said that those who claim that exercise has no impact on the course of depressive illness were probably using this as an excuse to sit on their behinds.

>Yes, we're finding that bottom-up improvement
>of the body improves the brain / mind to a
>surprising degree. But this is nothing compared
>to the improvements that can happen as a direct
>result of taking medications that correct
>actual imbalances in the brain / mind.

Well, again. Seeing as no definitive chemical imballances have yet been identified, one cannot make the assumption that medications are correcting any imballences. Diabeties is not depression. The "low serotonin" hypothesis is used to give biochemical depression credability. No such imballence in serotonin is repeatedly provable in depresson. There is little to no proof that antidepressants correct the specific imballences that exist in depression, in the way that insulin treats diabeties. Antidepressants treat the symptoms, but they may or may not be treating the disease.


>Squiggles is right to be angry. Sometimes
>meds are only a crutch, but you don't kick the
>crutch away because you want suffering to
>be proof of wicked behavior.

I never told *anybody* not to take their meds. The only thing that got me angry was when Squiggles claimes that people who are able to get better without medication never infact had true depression. I hate when people make depression into a "ingroup outgroup bias". "I'm sicker than you are" bla bla bla.

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