Posted by linkadge on July 14, 2004, at 8:20:03
In reply to Re: question for linkadge » linkadge, posted by rod on July 14, 2004, at 5:57:50
I think that the right medication helps you to see your problems in a different light. They help the depression, without taking away your joy.
Anticonvulsants, sedatives, alchohol etc, can help certain forms depression, but they simply dampen down all nerve activity. They may quench crippling emotional pain, but they can also rub out joy, motivation, excitement etc, ie. they're short curcuting emotion. They're what we've got right now however.
Some of the newer treatments on the horizon purportedly target the source of the problem better.
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