Posted by blueberry1 on January 10, 2007, at 5:23:56
In reply to Re: EMSAM apparently is not for anxiety, posted by UgottaHaveHope on January 10, 2007, at 0:27:03
With all due respect to the pdoc, I must politely disagree. I have tried drugs that I was sure were going to feel lousy or give me terrible side effects and it worked out just the opposite. I've tried drugs where I had tons of faith in them and I just knew they would be great, and they turned out to be monsters of evil. Say I take xanax and I am convinced it will be useless, it won't sedate me, it won't calm me, so because I think that it isn't going to work? I don't buy it. How about when you first tried seroquel? What if you were absolutely convinced it was not going to touch your anxiety? Well, it did anyway, regardless of how you felt about it. These drugs don't need our best wishes to work. They either work or they don't. If they work by willpower and hope, as the pdoc suggested, then that is what they call placebo effect, and you could get that by just taking a sugar pill.
The pdoc said something interesting: That each of us have to believe that the med is working for it to have a chance. In other words, if you are defiant about Emsam or (you name the med) only makes you worse, then your mind won't give it a fair chance.
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