Posted by blueberry1 on December 29, 2006, at 17:57:54
In reply to A little more info-old topic-SSRIs and suicidal id, posted by ed_uk on December 29, 2006, at 15:43:15
If the whole theory of chemical imbalance is true, then it could be possible for an ssri to make the imbalance even worse. Example, someone who's depression is related to dopamine and not serotonin. My hunch is that is more people than is recognized.
The side effects can be so tremendously burdening to someone who is already severely depressed that it pushes them over the edge. Insomnia, nausea, dizziness, sexual dysfunction, sedation, fatigue...I mean, can someone severely depressed handle all that stuff? It does not seem fair to me that the very people who are the weakest and the most vulnerable are the same ones expected to somehow endure feeling even worse during startup with no real guarantee it is going to get any better, and that somehow these severely crippled weakened depressed people have to find the capacity to endure weeks of waiting. Strange. I can understand asking a healthy person to endure antidepressant startup and waiting. They are strong enough to handle it. But someone is gravely ill?
I am so very glad that some people find ssris fantastic. And I am so glad that some people find side effects to be very minimal. Some people even start feeling a lot better in just days. That is very cool. But I can relate to those people who find themselves in worse condition on antidepressants than where they started. It has happened to me plenty of times.
I've been to the hospital 3 times for suicidal ideation. In every case it was within 4 days to 4 weeks of starting a new antidepressant.
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