Posted by anonymoose on December 1, 2007, at 12:48:05
In reply to Fastest Acting AD you have taken??, posted by clubfitter on November 29, 2007, at 20:05:27
Mirapex. Adderall and ritalin have faster onset (immediate, significant increase in dopaminergic transmission) but have nasty long-term effects and are thus usually not sustainable.
A better approach is: What is the specific nature of your symptoms, and what underlying causes do they point to? (Serotonergic dysfunction? Dopaminergic? A combination of the two? Something else entirely??)
It's best try to treat the specific causes. Hard part is figuring out what those specific causes are. Only good ways I can think of are MRI, PET, and deductive analysis based on descriptive symptomology. For example, anxious, fearful depression points to serotonin; apathetic, anhedonic anergia points to dopamine. Overly simplistic analysis, to be sure, but better than the one-size-fits-all shot-in-the-dark approach to prescribing meds that most clinical psychiatrists rely so heavily on.
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