Posted by linkadge on December 4, 2006, at 18:13:00
In reply to Re: Why your medicine may not help » Vale, posted by tensor on December 4, 2006, at 17:19:52
>There is a certain percentage that will have one >depression once for, say, three months and never >again. I'm not one of them. I believe mine is >genetically determined, my brain is hard-wired >to have certain levels of substances abundant in >the synaptic cleft etc.
But thats the thing. There is no basis for definicany of neurotransmitters in depression.
The fact is that depression almost always gets better on its own. The majority of depression lasts less than a year. Very rarely over a year.
It could very well be a life cycle. After all, the life is a very long and important event.
Its just like how everybody picks at a scab. They think, "yeah yeah, I know how my body works, and I don't like this scab here". So they pick off the scab and it leaves a scar.
If they had just left well enough alone, and let the wound to heal on its own, there would be no scar.
The problem is that depression is a message. It is a message to stop everything you're doing an
give yourself time to heal.But, antidepressants are all about keeping people productive. We want to speed heal the process, as quickly as possable.
But maybe the process of "speed healing" depression will leave a scar. Its all about this fast paced society. We want everything now. We don't want to wait for anything.My grandfather had 4 major depressive episodes, each lasting about 8 months. But, when he was well, he was 100% better. None of this hooked on antidepressants, bla bla, I need some augmentation, bla bla, my drug is pooping out, bla bla, I need more norepinephrine, bla bla, I'm impotent, bla bla, polypharamchology, bla bla.
I digress,Linkadge
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