Posted by linkadge on June 7, 2006, at 20:34:26
In reply to Re: Question about placebo effect, posted by yxibow on June 7, 2006, at 16:53:55
I don't think it is a placebo effect.
When I did have a responce to an antidepressant, I seemed to have some immediate positive effects.
Doctors and scientists have always tried to maintain that antidepressants cannot work right away because they are trying to distinguish them from being seen as pep pills.
They are pep pills in many ways, and they can have immediate effects. The noradrenergic antidepressants can also have some significant and immediate effects.
The TCA's are strong anticholinergics. Anticholinergic agents are potentially abusable because they actually do increase dopamine in pleasure centres of the brain. In this sence, TCA's can have immedate effects too.
Occasionally drugs like prozac and effexor have been used recreationally.
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