Posted by Questionmark on November 11, 2007, at 21:45:48
In reply to Re: SSRI Apathy- This is the *True* SSRI response! » Questionmark, posted by Bob on November 6, 2007, at 11:53:24
"Currently, drug studies only seem to provide information on what occurs in the first few months at most." Yes this is so often completely true is it not? This is one of the aspects of psychiatric research that i think is most ridiculous. I mean come ON, many people need to be on these drugs for many months if not years, especially after they become somewhat more or less dependent on them (and subsequently oftentimes severely dependent on them). And similarly we have so -- ***so little*** knowledge about the long-term consequences (i.e., potential adverse even irreversible? long-term effects) of taking various psychiatric drugs.
It is ridiculous. It is shameful. It is absurd.
And only time (if that) will tell what the long-term consequences of drugging a generation of children with stimulants are. [Again stimulants also *may* be quite beneficial overall for many children as well as adults, but certainly not to the extent that we have taken it, i strongly believe].> I too have experienced this unfortunate cycle. Sadly, long term effects of drugs are not payed attention to much in the medical and pharma communties. STAR*D is the only study I've seen which has even touched on the dismaying effects of long term AD use, and that has hardly even scratched the surface. Currently, drug studies only seem to provide information on what occurs in the first few months at most.
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> Honestly, I don't know how this will ever change.
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