Posted by pulse on June 17, 2006, at 10:06:53
In reply to re: finding good pdoc; Groupthink., posted by linkadge on June 17, 2006, at 1:58:54
> I don't understand it. Cocaine was once prescribed for nervous depression. The negitive effects were probably eventually less deniable due to its short half life and such.
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> What is the principle action of cocaine? It's a serotonin reuptake inhibtor.linkage, i had NO idea of this - cocaine's principle action is as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor???!!!
reason i ask is that i now believe i do have the nervous type of mdd - always have - just wrote my therapist email about this 2 days ago. what a timely post your's is.
my 'drug of choice' was cocaine. sorry, perhaps you'll view this as disgressing, but i'm now forced to go on yet another rant about rehab tx centers. you'll see why:
so often, they suggest/ PUSH wellbutrin as the best bet for ALL types of depressive cocaine 'addicts.' i do have a friend for whom it worked well, but alcohol is actually his 1st-line 'drug of choice,' that, then, inevitably (although that time frame varies) leads him in pursuit of cocaine. he only has dysthymia, compare to my mdd, and i now suspect, he has alot of sp, which is SO very common for those that self-medicate with alcohol, then unfortunately usually either become binge or daily drinkers. in contrast, i have no sp, whatsoever.
i've never craved alcohol, nor liked it's effects. also, quite simply, it makes no sense whatsoever, since alcohol is such a well-known depressant.
***so, so much for the gene theory, since alcoholism runs on both sides of my family*** (yes, i realize that it's been proven, but i simply don't believe this so-called proof. the studies have to be flawed).
my foremost point is - this tx center disease model/ 'thinking' led me directly down the dopamine ADs seeking trail. i feel so hood-winked, now, and yet again. one wonders how often CAN they believe the total opposite of what is truth/ what WILL work!
i know you hate the ssris, but for me, prozac was fabulous, and for many, many years, until i could no longer take the gi side-effects, that now never diminish - this being 'fairly' recently. so, this surely tends to strongly support your assertion re: cocaine being a serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
btw, ssris have never once induced one iota of mania/ nor hypomania in me. now, i wouldn't suggest putting anyone on prozac when they are 2 days off crack!, but that's a substantially different matter. the original paxil would be the best one, at that point, then a switch to prozac - in my opinion, backed up directly by my own experience.
thank you,
pulse
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