Posted by morgan miller on November 7, 2010, at 21:31:57
In reply to Re: One person's argument for Escitalopram, posted by ggggg123 on November 7, 2010, at 11:29:43
> I have been drug free for many months, I have post citalopram and escitalopram problems, My only hope is that norep and dop drugs eventually pull me out of this nightmare. Alexander is the same, we have post ssri problems, ssri's are a joke, they should be banned!!! I took them for about 6 months, I know some people say it can take years to recover from them, well at least theres hope. My experience is you don't think emotionally, you don't think much at all, you become a zombie. Frontal lobe activity is reduced, thus one develops frontal lobe syndrome, might aswell have a lobotomy!!! raising one neurotransmitter beyond normal levels and disregarding norep and dop is dangerous. Especially for people with severe depression as we need all the norepinephrine and dopamine we can get.
Obviously everyone is different. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with SSRIs. There are many people though that have done very very well on SSRIs and stay on them for a very long time. There is no perfect drug, not yet at least. Until there is, we will have to take risks and hope that drugs don't mess with us the way the did with you.
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