Posted by francesco on September 27, 2003, at 9:03:47
In reply to Re: news : ) » Francesco , posted by DSCH on September 26, 2003, at 13:04:09
>For what it's worth imipramine may be a step >upwards as it tends to be less anticholinergic >than clomipramine according to Perrine.
I agree. I will insist on desipramine but if he doesn't allow me to try it I will try imipramine. Sooner or later in my life I will have to try stimulants to know how they work & if they work.
Trials & errors procedure is far for more scientific in my opinion than put up a diagnosis in twenty minutes (or by mail !). If he's in doubt between ADHD & -bipolar rapid cycles- I think that he should allow me to try stimulants for few days and see what happens. Then if I get manic I'm bipolar II otherwise I'm ADHD. I know this is not a sharp procedure but which is the alternative ? I'm going to tell tell him also that I tried cocaine twice or thrice in my life and I didn't get euphoric at all. My main reaction to cocaine was wondering insistently why so many people spend so much money for it : )
>I wonder what he would have to say if he had >followed our discourse from when it began back >when I warned you about MAOIs? ;-)Psychiatrists are not used to follow discourses : ) There are so many things I would like to write in my PHD thesis ... first of all:
why do side-effects of antidepressants resemble so much to diagnostic cryteria for depression ?Imagine a person who eats very much and compulsively, who usually sleeps 12 hours a day, who's not interested in sex anyomore even if he was before, who's always tired and speaks and acts very slowly. Is he depressed ? No, he's taking Anafranil ... ;-)
Sorry for my harangue (find this on a dictionary) but I skipped Anafranil again to be able to go out this evening : )
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