Posted by SLS on September 26, 2012, at 0:25:47
In reply to Re: Do antidepressants do more Harm than good ?, posted by poser938 on September 25, 2012, at 10:36:49
> No, SLS i can understand where you are coming from. you're pretty cool. but i realized this website is for people who haven't had a situation like mine. anytime someone talks about having long term effects from a medication it is easy for a doc or a say something like "oh that is just your condition getting worse and not from the medicine"
I must say that if this were ten years ago, I would have been very skeptical - perhaps unbelieving - that anyone could experience the things that you describe. However, over time, after encountering so many self-reports, reviewing my own treatment history with psychotropic drugs, and using a little logic, I have come to believe that what you describe is very real.
I think I wrote something on the board the other day to the effect that today's minority opinion often becomes tomorrow's majority consensus. Of course, in some instances, the minority opinion will encounter resistance, and even disdain. For this reason, I try to keep an open mind. I don't always succeed, though.
I could be wrong, but I think you have encountered some resistance, but no disdain. I see that some people are trying to be genuinely helpful by reminding us that there are times when the symptoms of the depressive illness are confused for residual drug-induced adverse effects. Some day, this debate will reach its terminus when science provides the evidence that the brain can be persistently and permanently changed by exposure to psychotropic drugs. Of course, such can be desirable or undesirable, depending on the treatment goal.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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