Posted by SLS on August 16, 2016, at 22:45:09
In reply to Re: excess mood stablizers, posted by linkadge on August 16, 2016, at 14:48:57
> I would more be concerned about cumulative toxicity to brain cells.
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> Drugs may bring relief for depression in the short term, but we don't know how they affect the brain in the long term, especially in combinations.
Why especially in combinations?How long must a short-term improvement be before it becomes long-term?
There are people who have taken antidepressants for decades and have remained alive and well in a continuous state of remission. One can speculate that there are long-term changes in brain function that are not needed to produce that remission. However, if they do not produce any clinically significant adverse effects, what difference does it make?
If you want things to be simple, try intranasal ketamine taken every few days. Of course, we don't know what the effects will be in the long-term. You can say that about most anything. If intranasal ketamine doesn't work, then one may be forced to use a strategy that involves the manipulation of multiple sites. If one drug can do this, then polypharmacy isn't necessary. However...
We just aren't there yet. I don't understand the science behind setting an arbitrary number as to how many drugs is too much. You may feel that 6 drugs is too much for me. However, I have been improving steadily with this regime. As I mentioned in a prior post, each drug has been tested to ascertain its role in my treatment as well as its minimum effective dosage.
I'll wait until I am 100 years old to begin to worry about unknown adverse effects of my drug therapy. In the meantime, I'm going to extract from life my best self-actualization so as to experience joy and fulfillment. I've waited long enough. The time is now.
- Scott
Some 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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