Posted by ggggg123 on November 2, 2010, at 14:48:10
In reply to Re: To Cheryl-Lynne Anhedonia, posted by ggggg123 on November 2, 2010, at 14:21:54
Sorry one last thing I need to get off my chest.
I don't think ssri's are beneficial to people with clinical depression, I think they are beneficial to people with ocd, social phobia and emotional disorders. If your neurotransmitters are fully functioning, but you feel abit anxious and hyper emotional or hysterical, an ssri will calm you down, make you feel more calm and less emotional, it will reduce your obsessive thinking, as ssri's reduce frontal lobe activity, slowing rate of thoughts and affecting your memory.
People with actual clinical depression, where their neurotransmitter functioning is severely diminished, often do not respond well to ssri's and why would they: for a start they are already suffering from a drop in NE and DE activity, but I think the main point is a clinically depressed brain is much more manipulable than a non clinically depressed persons brain, since their are no tests to determine clinical depression, many people with emotional disorders and problems, including many psychological problems as opposed to neuropsychiatric problems, are treated using ssri's maybe it is these people who benefit, as their NE and DA are not manipulated, and they are left with a pleasant reduction in their hurting emotions.
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