Posted by helenag on October 26, 2003, at 14:14:51
In reply to Are SSRI drugs a bad idea in the long run, posted by Robert Fairburn on October 26, 2003, at 6:56:25
You may have something there. I can't recall how long I was on Prozac, at least three years???, but it quit "working." The official reason the pdoc gave me was that I was drinking and the alcohol interfered with the med. That may be so...but the depressive episode that landed me in the hospital came after five weeks of sobriety with a 40mg Prozac dose. So, go figure.
As far as the chemical "theory" of mood disorders are concerned, don't you think that it operates on an assumption? The drug has an effect; the drug causes this to happen within the synapse, ergo, chemical imbalance creates the mood disorder. There has to be a lot more going on in the neurons. The science of this is in its infancy.
There is definitely a chemical feature to psychiatric illness. ANyone who has suffered side effects from psychotropic drugs knows this. I myself became a manic woman from geodon and crashed into a horrible depression once from taking reglan.
Guess we all need to be reminded once in a while how much we deal with the unknown when it comes to meds. peace, helen
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