Posted by scatterbrained on May 1, 2006, at 19:22:26
In reply to Re: Desipramine vs Strattera, posted by SLS on May 1, 2006, at 7:51:47
I've never tried maoi's, been thinking about ensam though.
I don't know if it's that there isn't enough juice like you said or if I for some reason have developed a tolerance to these drugs like in the same way people develope tolerances to stimulants. The wierd thing is that I used to have a sustained effect from antidepressants prior to around three years ago and strangly at an abnormally low dose(relative to the profoundness of my depression). Like only 10mg of Paxil was very potent and consistent and any more of the stuff gave me anxiety.
I feel like maybe because I was so sensitive to psychotropics, somehow taking too much of them has been detrimental and sort of fried the receptors they were working on.
I haven't been on anything for 6 months and I feel awful and the cognitive problems are too profound to handle.but,aside from the innicial positive response, I felt awful on the medication as well and I never knew what was causing what. Were my symptoms coming from the medication or from the depression?
Before I go back into the world of psychopharmachology I feel that I have to look into every other possible reason for the symptoms I'm having because the cognitive problems just seem too extreme and atypical to only be depression. Doctors are too quick to assume that if you have a history of an affective illness that somehow that cancels out anything else being wrong. Little do they know, depression makes people more succeptible to other illnesses, after all, depression is a systemic illness.
So, that's where I'm ar right now.
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