Posted by linkadge on January 30, 2007, at 21:23:29
In reply to Re: Dopaminergic/schizophrenia link discovered?, posted by mindevolution on January 30, 2007, at 18:05:35
"we have absolutely no idea what causes your illness, but trust me these pills that work on serotonin are safe for you to take indefinitely
because the company that makes them says so on the basis of 12 week trials that they conduct rather than being independently carried out! oh, and despit the prefix "anti" they can't cure the illness nor prevent it from occurring, and there are millions of lawsuits regarding the serious side effects of the medications including suicide"Well said!
And what kinds of tests are they doing on the drugs? They are likely just doing the most rudimentary tests. Oh sure, a little cancer screening, make sure the drug doesn't cause spontanious death.
And combinations, my goodness. I remember reading that when sertraline and some anticonvulsant were combined they caused some massive increase in lipid peroxidation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dsyfunction etc.
No wonder bipolars don't get better. Take a disease where mitochondial and glial function is already out of whack, and then throw 10 drugs together and hope it all just magically works out. Its all just symptomatic treatment, what happens under the seems could be very ugly.
What bothers me too is how psychiatry just kind of makes these seemless transitions from one concept to the next. Its done ever so slowly and carefully that to the untrained eye it all seems to make sense.
They are always trying to link things and connect things to make it seem like they were right all along.
If a problem ever comes down to either the patient or the drug, it is the patient.
Linkadge
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