Posted by Tom Twilight on August 5, 2005, at 9:44:40
In reply to Re: Do SSRIs work?, posted by med_empowered on August 5, 2005, at 2:17:58
I am not a big fan of SSRIs
Whether you respond to them or not is, in my opinion often deppendent on whether you have to little Seratonin or not.
If your problem is primarily that you have a seratonin shortage then they will probably help, if on the other hand your problems are based in the Noradrenaline or Dopamine systems, then I don't think there much good.
I know this is an over simplification, my apologies if I got it completely wrong!
I strongly suspect that older antidepressants such as Tricyclics and MAOIs are actualy more effective, because they effect more systems
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