Posted by blueberry on January 9, 2006, at 17:49:32
In reply to SSRI question, posted by Spiro Ghetti on January 9, 2006, at 8:25:07
The thing about long term psychiatric drug use is that no one really knows the long term effects in the brain. Low dose, high dose, whatever, I don't think that matters as much as the length of time. It's my guess that changes do take place in the brain over months and years, having to do with the number of receptors either increasing or decreasing, the density of the receptors, the responsiveness of the receptors, how the genes interact or get modified, and who knows what.
Why after 5 years of 20mg prozac and being fine did it slowly start to change? Why did that 20mg which seemed like candy slowly become too powerful for me to handle after all that time? Did my condition change? Did the drug cause changes in the brain, to where the prozac was no longer treating the same brain that it started with 5 years earlier? I think maybe a little of both.
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