Posted by utopizen on October 26, 2008, at 20:10:52
In reply to Re: Exotic Meds for Treatment Resistant Depression, posted by shasling on October 26, 2008, at 18:58:52
not sure of ur point... anyhow...
as for "Alcover," there's good reason why it was stopped. And it too was initially used by very ambitious, far too creative patients and their docs for off-label uses that didn't work out as planned.
ultimately, there's never going to be a cure for depression. as my p-doc once said, "there's no cures in this business."
there are treatments, and there are remission.
the docs who have chased the "cures" are notoriously ambitious ones, filled with humbling disappointments. Freud once referred to his experiment of treating cocaine as a means to cure his friend's heroin addict as the greatest mistake of his life. He said it simply turned him into an addict of two drugs instead of one.
Weight in the obvious fact there is an indisputable link between substance disorders and mood disorders, and you're making an already vulnerable population at risk for getting addicted to something that can not only worsen their depression with its risk for mood lability, and you'll wind up convincing someone on the board hear desperate for relief into a "treatment" that will worsen their mood, make their mood more erratic than it is already, bring about bouts of AM anxiety, etc., etc.--- and that's assuming they are strong enough not to get addicted to the stuff.
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