Posted by clint878 on March 12, 2007, at 16:45:39
In reply to Re: Systemic bias, posted by linkadge on March 11, 2007, at 16:33:13
Are you sure these symptoms didn't exist before taking the drugs? I took SSRI's for several years, and experienced the anhedonia you describe. But after I stopped, things returned to normal.
If Zoloft removes the problem, then have you considered taking Zoloft? Is there a problem with taking a low dose of Zoloft long-term? People take Benadryl, an SSRI, for their entire lives to relieve allergies, with few problems. You can try discontinuation again in a few years.
All the animal studies I saw in relation to SSRI's didn't prove much clinical effect. Some of them showed that huge doses of SSRIs caused changes in cells, but the doses used were 100 times the usual dose, there was no control group, and nobody followed up a few months later to see what happened then. And nobody researched what the actual changes in behavior induced by such cell changes would be - if any behavioral change at all.
An eye doctor once said to me that I was very picky with my vision. He said that I was one of his more difficult patients not because I had worse vision than most people, but because I noticed every little visual problem. Could the same be true about mental health?
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