Posted by bruin on March 20, 2005, at 10:52:55
In reply to Re: withdrawal symptoms coming off zoloft-Phillipa » bruin, posted by SLS on March 20, 2005, at 10:12:28
I know a number of people who have taken one dose and have been ill for months and in some cases years. Granted, it is rare, but as I have said before everyone's biochemistry is different. I can list the symptoms if you'd like.Check #4 below. It is from Dr. Smith, who is what I would call an enlightened shrink. Take care
----I no longer recommend psychiatric medications to anyone.
This seems radical in this country because we are in the midst of the "biological revolution." Everyone seems to assume medications are are specifically effective for various mental illnesses which are at least in part chemical or genetic in origin. I believe the science behind this is seriously flawed. It is based on false assumptions that lead to self-perpetuating mythology (and huge profits for drug companies).
I first gave up on tranquilizers, then antidepressants, then all psychiatric drugs. I learned that there are certain general principles that govern all psychoactive substances and biologic treatments.
General Principles:
(1) "Mental illnesses," even severe ones, are relational (I'd say spiritual as well). Psychiatry, by focusing almost exclusively on biology, is making itself increasingly irrelevant.
(2) Psychoactive substances provide at best, temporary relief, but always make things worse in the long run. They make things worse directly
(chemically) and indirectly by distracting from the real issues.
(3) All psychoactive substances have rebound and withdrawal-related problems. "Relapse" rates, in general, during withdrawal from psychiatric drugs, are about 10 times higher than would be expected if the drug had never been taken.
(4) "All biopsychiatric treatments share a common mode of action -- the disruption of normal brain function" (Peter Breggin, M.D., Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, Springer Pub. Co., 1997, p.
3). Drugs never correct imbalances. They never improve the brain. They "work" by impairing the brain and dampening feelings in various ways.
> > > "How long does it take to become addicted to a particular AD"
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> > I don't know if I'd use the term addicted simply because I know people who have been badly damaged from ONE dose of an SSRI.
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> How so?
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> - Scott
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