Posted by SLS on August 17, 2015, at 12:27:52
In reply to Re: Nightly teeth grinding: From effexor?, posted by bleauberry on August 16, 2015, at 16:12:05
> All of our psych drugs impact the brain in profound ways that are not adequately explained.
Your point being?
What you wrote is true. The jigsaw puzzle regarding the exact phenomenology of mental illness has not yet been solved completely. However, scientists have collected tons of biological and psychological data produced by very sophisticated tools. Unfortunately, they don't know how to put the pieces together yet. That being said, there is quite a bit of clinical investigation that demonstrates which drugs work and which ones don't - regardless of mechanism of action. Psychotropics are not the only class of drugs whose mechanisms of action are not well understood and used to treat illnesses that lack explanations of etiologiy.
Profound illness often requires drugs with profound biological effects.
Science is not a four-letter word. Sometimes it is called upon to produce educated guesses upon which to build theories and develop new studies to further investigate medical issues.
Uneducated guesses have their place, I guess. However, I am not sure exactly where that place is. Certainly, these guesses should not be presented as fact. Desperate people will look for anything that represents an alternative to treatment as usual. Impeccably pure logic yields fallacious results in the absence of accurate information.
An interesting phenomenon in my case is that during a period of worsened depression, bruxism appears or gets worse. Dosage adjustments can produce an improvement in depressive symptoms for me, including bruxism. Bruxism is sometimes a symptom of depression. If, however, it is due to SRI drugs, one way to mitigate it is to take buspirone. Perhaps adding another drug that acts similarly as a 5-HT1a receptor partial agonist would help. I don't know.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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