Posted by tensor on December 15, 2006, at 21:20:42
In reply to Deserves some cheer for that SLS, posted by willyee on December 15, 2006, at 13:41:14
>Antidepressants seem to be held in low-esteem here. You would think that someone is with premeditation trying to shove sh*t down our throats against our will. Like it or not, these drugs are the results of the best efforts of medical science. They are the best tools we have to work with. Be thankful that any of these drugs exist at all. Yeah, 50 years from now, things will be different. There will be fewer cases of depression and bipolar disorder resistant to the treatments that will be available in the future. However, now is now. Creative combinations of the drugs that currently exist is probably the key to many cases that are difficult to treat. So, you can throw tantrums, trash the tools, and avoid working with them diligently, or remain positive and constructive, develop treatment strategies, and follow-through with drug trials, understanding that there might be quite a few failures before success is achieved.
This is exactly my opinion. Researchers in all disciplines of science, is the elite of mankind. If we fail or succeed in finding a "cure" lie in their hands. The success of newer medications like SSRI or SNRIs e.g. is because of trial and error in real life. We have these meds because our ancestors went through some good and some really bad methods in the quest of relief. Wouldn't it be an insult to these if we just threw away all that experience we have learned? Just as our successors and ourselves can have even better meds and methods because of the misery and pain we have gone through with limited, yet, well-funded researched meds we have today.
For every med that is being approved, tried and disapproved we are getting closer. It's not for free. Nothing is for free.
/Mattias
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