Posted by mtdewcmu on March 23, 2011, at 0:01:08
In reply to Re: antidepressant side effects!, posted by bleauberry on March 19, 2011, at 5:51:48
> Well, no offense intended to the doctor, my opinion differs from that of your doctor. The numbness is not a side effect. It is a direct effect. Some have called antidepressants emotional anesthetizers. Sure they can get rid of the lows, but goodbye highs also.
>It would be nice if your theory could be formulated in a way that could be tested scientifically, and then have studies done. It seems like there is no rational theory for what antidepressants do, aside from cause a statistically tiny improvement in depression scores. It would be a big advance, IMO, if psychiatry could establish that SSRIs are emotional numbing agents. When I have tried to lower my dose of SSRI past a certain point, I notice feeling more present, but then this terrible depression returns and I have to stop the experiment.
poster:mtdewcmu
thread:980707
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20110321/msgs/980950.html