Posted by poser938 on May 24, 2012, at 13:08:31
In reply to Re: is anyone actually impressed with drug companies? » poser938, posted by SLS on May 23, 2012, at 17:35:37
ritalin is one medication that inhibits the reuptake of dopamine and it can work within in minutes to put you in a good mood. maybe i'm out of touch, but i dont see a problem with someone taking a medication that makes them feel good.. rather than a med that numbs them and takes away their passion to go out and live. this is the reaction that most people have to serotonin increasing meds.. which make up about 80% of the current antidepressants.
and then i ran accross triple reuptake inhibitors that are said to be the future of antidepressants. the only difference i see is a doc being mre willing to prescribe this dopamine increasing med because it is labeled as an "antidepressant" and not a stimulant. this is a pretty significant difference, though, if you can finally get a doctor to prescribe you somehting that increases your passion for life.. but we have that with ritalin. then we have an even stronger med that works on dopamine called adderall, and vyvanse too. and if you dont like DRI's you can go with selegiline or emsam if you want to inhibit mao-a and mao-b. my 1st set of meds were cymbalta and adderall. these 2 meds had the 3 main neurotransmitters covered that they try to increase.
maybe my experience with psychiatric medications has a lot to do with my view of how little we have acheived in the past 25 years.. or even the past 50 years. and my experience with psychiatrists and medical doctors acting like these meds are perfect, with no possibility of screwing you up long-term. and i know i'm not the only one that has had an experience like this.
unnaturally forcing your brain to do something that it wasn't designed to do can cause things to haywire, and it could possibly be permanent (like in my case) and since i had a bad reaction to these meds i am told i am delusional by doctors.anyway.. i just cant wait until they are done milking this monoamine hypothesis for all it has got. i'm not expecting anything truly interesting from drug companies for at least 50 years. sure, todays approach works for some people, but then it has ruined some peoples lives.
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