Posted by Tomatheus on November 26, 2005, at 15:48:07
In reply to Re: Studies on long term use of SSRI's, posted by linkadge on November 26, 2005, at 15:24:43
Linkadge,
I'm sorry to hear that your trials with psychiatric medications have not been successful. As I said, there are some patients who do achieve long-term success on psychiatric medications. On the flip side, I do think that meds are either less than effective or unnecessary in far too many patients, and I think it's important for patients to understand that antidepressants are not as universally effective as the drug companies would like to have us believe. Even though there is evidence in the scientific literature that genetically determined biochemical imbalances are part of what causes depression in some patients, there is no way to say for sure in any given case whether or not a patient actually does have a "chemical imbalance." There is far too much guesswork in psychiatry, and even though treatment is very successful in some cases, I think it's important to realize that treatment is often unsuccessful, and that there is a lot of room for improvement in psychiatry.
Thanks for your post.
Tomatheus
> I personally have not had much sucess with psychiatric medications.
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> For a while I was able to fool myself into thinking that my problems were reated to a chemical imballance. But at the end of 5 years on them I realized that they really weren't helping my problems more than they were just changing my problems into some other form.
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