Posted by yxibow on February 26, 2008, at 5:45:35
In reply to Re: ADs found to offer little clinical benefit, posted by dbc on February 26, 2008, at 5:28:02
You know... oh dear... this is going to go close to a PBC thread...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/apr/01/mainsection.guardianletters1#article_continue
It is probable that Kirsch has some views that lets say... that borderline q****
and this is coming from the esteemed University College London Pharmacology department
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/quack4.html
If not dozens of people on here are living proof that medication provides some -- and I do emphasize some (if medicine X relieves symptom Y 30-40% of the time, you're doing quite well) -- relief of symptoms -- remember, we are still living in the earliest stages of unraveling everything about the brain, then I don't know what to say.
I know that Luvox is doing something for me and I believe that over time so has Lamictal actually possibly had an impact as well.
I personally think it does a disservice and discouragement on the -medication- board as opposed to alternative ideas, to illustrate broad negative generalizations, but one is free to have freedom of thought.
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