Posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on April 7, 2009, at 11:47:02
In reply to Re: SSRI's and acetylcholine » Alexanderfromdenmark, posted by Garnet71 on April 7, 2009, at 9:46:16
> Hey Alexander -
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> Do you have a specific link to a resource that explains this concept? I'm very interested in this topic. Yeah, I can google..and search and search...but do you know of a simple summary type webpage or paper offhand that I can start with?
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> Thanks ~What I meant is that SSRI's that do not signicantly inhibit the reuptake of NA and DA cause emotional blunting instead of the Antidepressant effect we really need. Which is the ability to experience positive emotions, joy, excitement, pleasure and etc. Life feels meaningless without emotions and SSRI's are often responsible for anhedonia, which is just that, the inability to feel positive emotions.
Here is a long artice shedding light on ssri's, anhedonia and what to do about it.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0217394.htmlAlso, you can google, SSRI's may tharwt the quest for love. Or something like that anyway. I was only on lexapro for approx 1 year, and I'm now 9 months off and I still have anhedonia, constant fatigue, low free testosterone levels and lowered levels of t3. So this so called antidepressant as permantly killed my ability to experiencé emotions, killed off my manly hormone which has made me more or less impotent and i've lost muscle mass and gained fat, and lowered my thyroid function.
My Pdoc assured me that all side effects would go away when I stopped, and that I shouldn't have been so worried about the side effects. I now bear a permanent grudge against that pdoc and the pharma producing SSRI's for f*ck*ng up my neurochemistry and endoctrine system.
The inital problem for which I tried the drug is uncomparible compared to the misery I've aquired because of that stupid drug.
You can go through Marianco's post in this thread, he's extremely knowledgable and I believe he is a psychiatrist.
http://forum.mesomorphosis.com/mens-health-forum/antidepressants-134239845-2.html
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