Posted by SLS on August 26, 2015, at 15:04:46
In reply to I sometimes wonder, posted by Meltingpot on August 26, 2015, at 10:02:45
> I sometimes wonder if a lot of people give up on antidepressants simply because they feel so bad on the starting doses when if they had gone straight on a high dose they would have felt relief and continued to take them.
One problem is that doctors don't inform the patient about the possible physical and mental side effects psychotropics can produce. They don't describe what startup side effects are, and how long drugs can take to work. Most of all, they don't follow the patients closely enough. They really should see a patient once a week at the beginning of treatment. If nothing else, the doctor can screen for the emergence of suicidality.
- 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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