Posted by linkadge on April 29, 2006, at 22:44:36
In reply to Re: I think Cymbalta is making me depressed, posted by patrickhh on April 29, 2006, at 20:10:17
Its an interesting topic. The dumb thing is that we are narrowminded enough to suggesst that the problem is only restricted to children who take the drugs.
I too, don't agree with the idea that the drugs increase suicidialty simply by giving the patient more energy. That is unsubstantiated, and theres no way to test the claim. Plus, some of the SSRI's don't cause psychomotor activation.
Personally, I just think it is another example of psychiatry trying to take the focus off of themseleves and their treatments and put it back on to the patient. Ie. if a patient doesn't respond properly to the drug, it must be "the patient's" fault. Psychiatry always assumes that the drugs are flawless, and if somebody responds strangely to them, they must have latent bipolar, or that the drugs just caused psychomotor activation.
In order for psychiatry to survive, they must squash out all doubt, and any hint of weakness.
The psychiatric patient group is very suspicious to begin with. The proposed theories have to seem flawless in order for the system to thrive.
There have been many times, that taking antidepressant made me much worse. Just like blueberry said, they can supress dopamine function, and untill your brain adapts to that its really a freeforall as to how it will make you feel. We know that antipsychotics can cause acute dysphoria by interupting dopamine function.I remember when I was first put on citalopram 20mg. About 2 hours after the first morning dose, I just sat down and stared at the wall till 7:00pm, that went on for about 2 weeks, till I decided to cut the dose in half. Before starting I was depressed, but was still a lot more active than that.
I actually became more suicidal, simply because it caused significant initial dysphoria.
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