Posted by SLS on June 2, 2005, at 20:55:20
In reply to Re: Feel like I'm going to have a seizure, posted by linkadge on June 2, 2005, at 17:54:56
> I also think there is a trend towards failure of the drug to initiate second messenger transcripts when the drugs are taken for any prolonged period of time, regardless of weather the drug was discontinued or not.
This is quite possible. Although it seems that no single antidepressant has been spared this feature, the SSRIs as a class might carry a greater liability in this regard. SNRIs like the tricyclics and Effexor poop-out less often.
> Depression is adaptive.
It sounds like a pathogen.
Regardless of the physiological processes involved, I think that one's best chance of having an antidepressant continue to work is to remove as much depressive thinking and psychosocial stress as is possible. To allow these things to persist and remain chronic after remission is achieved is to place "depressive pressure" on the brain that at some point might break through the medication and precipitate a relapse.
- Scott
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