Posted by garnet71 on February 10, 2009, at 18:59:13
In reply to Re: Good grief...NOT a pro ssri video » garnet71, posted by Larry Hoover on February 10, 2009, at 16:07:12
> Antidepressants are not prescribed to remedy a serotonin deficiency.
That is very confusing, considering that concept is in the very name "SSRI" and that my doctors have told me the same. Confusing not even considering the drug co. commercials.
> There is no serotonin test in current use. Not one that can assess serotonergic activity in the central nervous system, in any case. Urinary excretion of serotonin breakdown products can be measured, but 90% or more of that comes from tissues outside of the CNS, and is irrelevant. Such tests are a fraud, IMHO. Blood levels can be taken, but they have never been correlated to anything in particular, save some dietary intakes, and those effects are transient. If these tests were of any value, they would be in common use by all doctors.
My endocronologist told me she would have ordered a seratonin test for me had I not been lacking just one other symptom - flushing. We didn't have a discussion about the test accuracy, though.
I don't have the answers or claim to have the answers, but cant' help but be overcome by many of us going through a lot of pain and suffering. What I do know, however, is that people, including experts, too often look at such issues within these little seperate windows--the psychiatrist, the neuroscientist, the endocronologist, the educator, the government policy maker, etc--when issue(s) is more of a kaliedoscope than a serial concept.
There are world-class institutions who have increasingly designed interdisciplinary entitites to increase the positive effects of technologies, exponentially. I am looking forward to that trend continuing and eventually consuming the mainstream. It seems silly to me that anthropology, art, political science, economics, medicine, and everything else are studied as seperate disciplines when really, they are all interconnected. There is perhaps a growing amount of information to be shared that overwhelms this concept, but institutions (incl. some government entities) are doing it. As far solutions are concerned, I'll trust the social entrepreuners will somehow figure it out, which is something I had hoped to become someday.
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