Posted by bulldog2 on January 17, 2007, at 13:10:54
In reply to Re: Do people feel medications help or mask sympto » shadowplayers721, posted by Quintal on January 17, 2007, at 11:06:24
I believe in cases where there is a remission the traditional ads do actually work. If they were just masking symptoms they would work from day one. Also from the day you stop them you would relapse into depression when in fact people often go months or years before they have another depression.It would seem their use somehow changes the brain's chemistry and there's many theories as to how they work.
As to the use of opiates or stimulants as ads that's a grey area to me. They often work right away but only work as long as you take them and often need increasing doses to maintain their effect. So maybe I would say they mask symptoms the way an opiate masks pain when in fact whatever is causing the pain (arthritis for instance) is still present.
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