Posted by Robert_Burton_1621 on February 13, 2015, at 10:57:20
In reply to Re: Effexor + Mirtazapine MORE effective than PARNATE! » Robert_Burton_1621, posted by ed_uk2010 on February 13, 2015, at 10:24:49
> He felt threatened?>Possibly, or was just lazy. Relying on a fixed idea that a patient doing his own research into medication = medication fixation, is a much more efficient (if totally disingenous and evasive) tactic of dealing with a concern than looking closely at the research on its own terms and arriving at a well-informed assessment. Of course, the research I managed to collate may have been irrelevant, or mistaken, or clinically unhelpful, or all three of these things, but since, from an intelligent but non-specialised perspective it struck me as being very relevant and worthy of consideration, it was disappointing that it was so breezily dismissed, if it was taken notice of at all.
> >"Californian rocket fuel" I don't like this moniker. It makes it sound like a potent psychostimulant, which it isn't.>
Exactly. The reason why I was so excited about it is that its pop label seemed to promise a psycho-motor boost, a revival of energy and drive, in the midst of my pretty bad and persistent psycho-motor retardation.
> >I would, however, not wish to dismiss the positive experiences of people who have benefited from it.
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> I have know several people who have benefited from mirtazapine, either alone, or with an SSRI, or with venlafaxine. Personally, I dislike it. Low doses = cotton wool stuffed head. High doses = restless, agitated feeling + cotton wool.
>That was precisely my feeling: soggy cabbage brain, I called it, even after having a very stable and very good night's sleep.
> >the majority of psychiatrists, in my experience, are incompetent or barely competent psychopharmacologists
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> :)
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> >there was (if I recall correctly) only a 6 - 10% chance (i.e., a pretty negligible chance) that I'd be responsive to anything else.
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> That must have been a very therapeutic consultation.
>Lol. My heart feel through the floor! That was his verdict after seven consecutive sessions. It would be the last I would attend.
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