Posted by Racer on June 21, 2008, at 9:04:41
In reply to Re: I have a very different view, posted by SLS on June 21, 2008, at 5:15:10
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> The phenomenon of antidepressant-induced-treatment refractoriness has not been formally studied. All we have is compelling anecdotes with no statistics.
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> If this is indeed a "special" population where this phenomenon occurs at a rate greater than that seen in the majority of people treated pharmacologically, then, the chances of any one person experiencing post-treatment TRD is greater.
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>Actually, I had a slightly different point I was hoping I'd made -- not so much that people here are more prone to develop TRD if we stopped a medication and then restarted it, but that since so many of us already are experiencing TRD, that scenario may lead us to over-estimate how much a medication benefited us in the first place. Like my view that Wellbutrin/Concerta wasn't working as well when I restarted it, when it fact it hadn't been working all that well in the first place, which is WHY we'd stopped it. Does that make more sense? That I inaccurately attributed to it much greater efficacy than it, in fact, had, and that lead me to believe it was less effective after the hiatus?
And it could be that you're right and I'm -- not right. I think, though, that in the absence of formal studies, it's worth considering that we might be a special population, and that the phenomenon may be illusory.
By the way, I really hope you'll let me know what I've done.
poster:Racer
thread:835521
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