Posted by SLS on May 2, 2009, at 8:26:25
In reply to Re: Poop out remedies - To bleuberry, posted by meltingpot on May 2, 2009, at 7:41:13
> I have tried Nardil about three times, each time I took it for about a month, each time it seemed to help with anxiety but not my depression. Does that mean that Emsam or parnate would not help ne either?
No. Each of those drugs are different enough pharmacologically to demonstrate differences clinically. I respond more consistently to Parnate than I do to Nardil. Emsam made me feel worse.
Sometimes you are better off not trying to convince yourself that you can pick and choose drugs based entirely on personal theories. Clomipramine gets some people well who weren't helped sufficiently by SSRIs. That is probably a better reason to try it than attempting to justify its use based upon what little is understood by science regarding the illness and the drugs that treat it.
I would use personal theories to help discover and include drugs to try rather than exclude drugs from consideration. It is not useless to inventory drugs based upon those pharmacological properties that science has thus far reported. However, I think it is helpful to admit the same kind of uncertainty regarding the phenomenology of mental illnesses that is clearly demonstrated and admitted to by scientists.
I am more ignorant than most people give me credit for. Using big words does not guarantee understanding. I guess I know enough to know how much I don't know.
:-)
Keep thinking!
- Scott
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