Posted by JohnL on July 31, 2001, at 4:39:30
In reply to ATYPICAL antipsychotics for ATYPICAL depression?, posted by dave_fox on July 29, 2001, at 6:56:42
Just my opinion, but all these names such as atypical, depression, etc, are fairly useless. If they were truly helpful, this board wouldn't have any reason to exist. Instead, I prefer to look at it as chemical imbalance. Chemical imbalance could apply to serotonin, NE, or dopamine. And it also could mean one of them is too much, rather than too little. After all, it is chemical imbalance, not chemical deficiency. Too much or too little are equally bad. There is a proper balance. Drugs can restore the correct balance. I have yet to see anything more successful in doing that than the atypical antipsychotics. Just my opinion, but thousands or millions of depression sufferrers would be far better off with an AP in their mix, with less emphasis on the ADs.
Atypical antipsychotics are wonderful drugs for treating all kinds of psychiatric problems, whatever name someone wants to put on them.
John> Excuse me for what may sound like a bit of a dumb question.
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> I understand that there is a group of antipsychotic meds called "Atypical Antipsychotics" and I wanted to ask if this is anything at all to do with treating what is called "Atypical Depression".
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> I am trying to understand the so far unsuccessful treatment of my own atypical depression (I also have dysthymia and a noticeably obsessional personality type too).
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> There have been one or two references here to the atypical antipsychotics, Amisulpride and Risperdal. Are these atypical antipsychotics linked to atypical depression? Or is the name "atypical" just a co-incidence?
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> Thanks for any info.
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> dave
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