Posted by Klavot on July 5, 2006, at 13:19:15
In reply to Re: AD's and Future / Linkadge » linkadge, posted by pulse on July 5, 2006, at 1:54:34
> yes, it's well known/ established for many years that recurrent depression does indeed remit on it's own.
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> most of us, including myself, until this final emsam faiure, have simply lacked the resolve, courage, and been unwilling to alot the time necessary - out of exteme fear - wholly understandable!...to find out that this IS very likely true for ourselves. yes, it is hard, but it's also most probably do-able.
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> my disclamer: as is more than obvious with 'the evil' linkage, i, too, am NOT telling anyone to NOT take these meds.
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> pulseI have tried psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, diet, exercise and light therapy, with little success. If only it really were as easy as that...
I think many researchers make the mistake of treating correlation and causality as the same thing (as in "SSRI users have a 2.5 times higher frequency of Parkinson's, hence SSRI's cause Parkinson's"), and I also think it is very dangerous to work on anecdote (as in "I knew someone who took Zoloft and subsequetly had a stroke" kind of thing). Many mathematical scientists (for example Serge Lang) have been very critical of the way medical scientists misuse statistics to substantiate their hypotheses.
A half-truth is worse than a lie, and it is very easy for researchers to put a particular slant on their data when testing a hypothesis. That is why you find so many contradictory studies out there.
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