Posted by linkadge on March 2, 2006, at 20:34:47
In reply to Re: Yes » linkadge, posted by wildcard11 on March 2, 2006, at 19:46:50
Have you tried to come off the meds? I remember thinking to myself. I'm not addicted to effexor, and then when I started to come off I couldn't move my eyes for 7 months without having a brain zap. I couldn't walk in a straight line. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't add two numbers together. Brain shivers, brain zaps. Suicidiality that surpassed anthing I had ever known. The list went on and on. Then I realized OMG I am so addicted to this sh*t.
Anyhow. The notion that we have come so far. Hmm. I don't even know where I'd start to argue against that one. Lets just say that we have lithium, a drug that probably works when many other drugs fail. We didn't invent it, and we certainly don't fully know how it works. You have to accept the fact that when you take an antidepressant you are taking an unknown risk. On the beggining of every AD commercial "while the causes of depression are not known...."
Just the fact a drug doesn't even need to be tested long term (ie more than 6 months) before it can be pushed by doctors. We don't know how these meds affect people long term.
If you take a happy pill, and it makes you happy, then it is much easier to accept all the theory, and dismiss all the potential problems that might arise from taking the medication. Its like smoking, it is so addicting, that the mind can destroy the body just to continue it. But the fact remains, that in all of this time that we have had acess to serotonin/norepinephrine reputake inhibitors, we have nair to find any conclusive evidence of abnormalities with the serotonin or norepinephrine transporter molecules.
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