Posted by yxibow on April 29, 2006, at 0:33:58
In reply to Re: I think Cymbalta is making me depressed » TrishP, posted by blueberry on April 28, 2006, at 19:10:32
> Just about any antidepressant can cause depression. That's why they have to put the black box warning of suicide on them. People actually do get much worse on a particular med for whatever reason. It has happened to me several times. I don't like it and I don't understand it.
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> You would think the thousands of brilliant scientists and tons of dollars could figure stuff out a little better.
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> I don't know much about effexor, but I thought they had an extended release version of it? No? Or am I mistaken.
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They put the black box on it to protect their *sses, pardon the expression, not that I speak for the drug company. Yes, it is conceivable that not every antidepressant is best for the same person, certainly Wellbutrin put my head on fire.
However, the black boxes are more there because of bad press and endless media-ese exposure of teenagers jumping out of windows (or adults), when if you really examined some of these cases, they would have done so anyhow. Severe depression is severe depression. No pill on the planet is going to hold someone back who is intent on doing self harm beyond its capabilities.
Its the same thing that I see paraded on CNN (which is the worst of repetitive networks, especially Nancy Grace, I get entertained while watching in the gym [humour]) about MySpace or blogs -- people not really thinking through that before we had one method of communication, there was the lockerroom and the cliques in the schoolyard, and the deranged people who would snatch kids off campus because "mommy told me to drive you home."
There is no "liberal media", its a misnomer. We now have one from Fox speaking for our great leader in the latest shuffle. (This is for the US audience). Anyhow, I've gone far off the topic, but there are no guarantees in medicine. We have advanced far from the 1950s and far from the 1970s that my very brilliant but undermedicated aunt with what we would now call BPII I never met committed suicide.
Some day there will be the better "happy pill". And there are thousands of briliant scientists. Some of them are your doctors, I hope. And it doesn't even take an antidepressant or genetic depression to cause depression. The very thing we call life can lead to depression, births, deaths, and all inbetween.
But I admit there is always that twinge of feeling that you are born too early. Some day if we figure out our energy future, which is really the future of the planet, lots of things can become possible.Ah, I wax.
Just my 2c. Maybe 4. :)
Tidings and cheers
-- Jay
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