Posted by tex1 on April 16, 2002, at 5:35:37
After years of antidepressant meds I arrived to this conclusion: every single food, med, every single thing that we put inside of our body will at first cause the wanted effect, but, with time, it looses its effect. It's just question of time : I've been doing body building for years and muscle building is based just on this point : the body just get used to the work it does, and reacts by making muscle to grow up. In another way : the body search a homeostasis. The only way to keep the desired effects is to surprise the body (in the case of body building by changing the exercises) givin' to it always a new stimulus. I believe that only when medicine will find psychoactive agents which can always surprise the homeostasis tendency of the brain this will be a great discovery. Even if some manufacturers have tried to tell that the antidepressant effect which occurs after a couple of weeks is right the wanted therapeutic effect dues to serotonine receptors downregulation, is also true that only in the first days of therapy for instance many people felt great relief from their anxiety and depressive symptoms (this due to higher concentration of serotonin in the synapse). And what about benzos ? They work in the first few days but then they loose their therapeutic effect creating tolerance. What you guys think ?
Bye from Italy
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