Posted by Sad Panda on May 5, 2004, at 13:11:35
In reply to Re: Effexor added..success stories please! » Sad Panda, posted by SLS on May 4, 2004, at 20:23:54
Hi Scott,
I didn't mean to insult you, but I do think all the psych drugs are bandaids. I didn't think that I implied that you have no actual physical problem with your brain & I can't possibly know, but I can guess that there is since you are bipolar. Since there is no cure for bipolar people I can easily say that all the drugs that are in use to treat bipolar people are bandaids.
>Perhaps we use the term 'bandaid' differently. When I have heard people use it in a manner similar to yours, they implied that the treatment being described was merely a temporary patch to manage outward symptoms rather than a means to treat the underlying pathology. Anxiety is often a symptom of depression. In this case, a benzodiazepine might target only this one symptom while an antidepressant targets the pathology. Perhaps, here, the benzodiazepine can be looked at as being a bandaid.
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>Benzos are aimed at GABA, SSRI's are aimed at Serotonin, only according to marketing is low Serotonin the reason for depression.
>I am unclear as to where you think I fit in. You seem to be very sure of where you fit in, but I don't think you can speak for everyone and say that antidepressants are merely temporary bandaids that allow them time to address the "true" psychological sources of their depression. I don’t know where you fit in, of course, but I am sure of where I do. I suffer from a brain disorder currently diagnosed as being bipolar depression.
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>I think where we have our wires crossed is the original poster & I are talking about AD's in the treatment of unipolar depression, you are talking about bipolar people. In the general scheme of things, your illness is nothing like mine, your depression is a symptom of bipolar disorder, something you were born with, my depression is a culmination of lifes events & could probably treated with thearpy as equally well as drugs, maybe better. In the scheme of brain problems, your stablemates are the epileptics, mine are people that have PTSD, Panic disorder & probably all of the various Anxiety disorders.
>Out of curiosity, what would you classify lithium as being when it is used to treat bipolar disorder?
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>It appears to be one of the mainstays for a lot of bipolar people, which doesn't say much for the other drugs that are used in BP.
Cheers,
Panda.
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