Posted by linkadge on June 2, 2005, at 19:42:58
In reply to Re: My family doc says Celexa is a mood stabilizer..., posted by Phillipa on June 2, 2005, at 17:52:33
This excerpt was taken from www.biposychiatry.com
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Second, though some subjects may feel mildly euphoric, in other users the SSRIs serve more as mood-stabilisers and -flatteners in their lives. By increasing the user's emotional self-sufficiency, too, SSRIs may subtly change the "balance of power" in personal relationships - for good or ill. In some cases, SSRIs may even act as thymoanaesthetisers which diminish the intensity of felt emotion; by contrast, a mood-brightening serotonin reuptake-enhancer like tianeptine may intensify emotion instead. Affective flattening may be welcome to someone in the pit of unmitigated clinical depression. It is scarcely a life-enriching property for "normal" people who lack any convenient diagnostic category which acknowledges their malaise.-----------------------------------------
But no, it is not something that will bring someone down from a euphoric high.Linkadge
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