Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on January 12, 2009, at 19:54:56
In reply to Re: MAOI TX in Severe+Resistant Depression » CaptainAmerica1967, posted by sissy35 on January 12, 2009, at 19:24:04
Well, in instituitional patients when psychiatry was becoming a science prior to drilling holes in one's head to release the demons, they didn't use cold showers, but experimented some extracts of some plant based medicines (like rauwolfia serpentina or reserpine..used for blood pressure, reduces agitation, but causes depression) and eventually newer medicines (note Freud used cocaine both personally for himself and his patients..it works but long term effects weren't good..it was even in the original Coca Cola).
The earlier smarter practitioners used cold water therapy (rivers, lakes), exercise, certain herbs as well as having their patients bath in lithium rich streams.
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