Posted by DSCH on September 28, 2003, at 9:31:21
In reply to Re: news : ) 2 » DSCH, posted by francesco on September 27, 2003, at 9:03:47
> 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 ?Because depression is not monolithic and linear but a collection of syndromes and non-linear. And treating an indivdual's own idiosyncratic form of depression with the wrong antidepressant only makes things worse.
Psychiatry is the only branch of medicine left that usually does not undertake imaging and chemical diagnostics (beyond the obligatory thyroid check the GP probably already did). So they resort to trial and error (my catchphrase: the "drug roulette wheel").
Being doctors, they are sensitive to accusations of iatrogenic problems, so it is understandable they attempt to shrug these off while accepting the up side when it comes. That's human nature.
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