Posted by zeugma on August 27, 2005, at 8:02:56
In reply to Re: What do people think of this article ? » zeugma, posted by linkadge on August 27, 2005, at 6:42:02
find it difficult to trust doctors. Not because they aren't nice people, but just because they don't know what they are prescribing.>>
True, and we don't either really.
The problem is that I was off meds for about ten years after having problems with SSRI's and conventional stimulants, and things got worse and worse with time. So now I take the meds and accept the fact that I am putting my brain in an altered state, because I don't have a pristine state to keep in place.
I think that despite all the articles that says that SSRI's are no worse than other AD's when it comes to sleep problems, that the TCA's are much more protective of sleep architecture. Norepinephrine and serotonin play subtly different roles in sleep states, and because serotonin controls the saccadic system that generates eye movements, this causes dreaming to migrate from REM stage to the other states where it is interfering with their functions.
Contrary to what one of the articles said, I think NRI's are much more efficient at limiting REM to periods where it is appropriate. NRI's are much better anticataleptics than SSRI's, and cataplexy is an intrusion of REM into waking.
-z
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