Posted by linkadge on June 22, 2006, at 17:55:48
In reply to Re: SSRIs and this Board » Paulbwell, posted by Declan on June 22, 2006, at 11:56:02
Another consideration is that not everbody who "responds" to an SSRI, is actually responding to the medication.
Like I was saying before, a lot of people get better "in spite of" SSRI's.
Depression does get better on its own. In addition, treatment (of any form) often does vastly superior to no treatment.
People always like to make associations, it makes them feel in control.
Even people who get better from depression without drugs, often associate their recovery with something (ie, God got me though), since it gives them a sence that they can prevent such things from happening again. That wasn't true for me, some of my worst points occured while on medications.
If somebody would like to believe that the SSRI was actually what caused recovery then all the power to them, but it may not be true.
Also, in terms of us all being institutionalized if we didn't have these medications, I'm not so sure what the statistics are. For instance, suicides "have not" taken any substatial decline since the advent of chemical antidepressants (contrary to popular belief). In addition you've got an increase in the number of "drug induced manic episodes", so I don't know if the meds pan out to paint a rosey picture at all.
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