Posted by bleauberry on November 10, 2010, at 17:11:55
In reply to Good Lord, what is in those pills? Warning- TMI, posted by Maxime on November 10, 2010, at 8:05:33
Yeah, that's a good example of why I tend to shy away from the general consensus of treating depression casually with prescriptions. I mean, it is all purely experimental. No one has a clue what these chemicals actually do, how they improve mood when they sometimes do, why they don't all the other times, and why the bizarre side effects. Withdrawals given a sweet innocent term like "discontinuation syndrome". Bizarre developments after longterm ssri usage. On and on. I mean, think about it, to stop a period is rather heavy duty. Maybe no big deal to someone else, but kind of scary to me.
Unfortunately, as long as the patient chooses to limit their own progress to the office of a psychiatrist, these things have to be expected sooner or later. I feel depression is too much of an all-encompassing condition to be dealt with by a chemical in a pill. The psychiatrist office and the prescription, in my opinion, should be about 25% of the overall efforts being made. More often than not, we see them being 90%-100%, and then wonder why we don't get better.
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