Posted by SLS on September 19, 2015, at 22:43:35
In reply to Re: Young people on SSRI's commit more crimes?, posted by Hello321 on September 19, 2015, at 20:58:20
Sorry, Hello.
I haven't followed your posts closely enough, I guess.
Anyway, I still think the study you posted is an important one to look at.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001875
Have you had bad experiences with antidepressants? What were they?
Have you ever responded to an antidepressant? Which ones?
> Youre jumping ahead of me on this. Ive posted on topics similar to this many times on this site and dont think ive ever mentioned these medications should be banned.
That's why I asked the question.
What would you do to remedy the problems you have identified?
> I just think patients need to be fully informed on all possible outcomes theses treatments can have.
Okay. What about penicillin?
http://www.rxlist.com/pfizerpen-drug/side-effects-interactions.htm
When was the last time you were informed of all possible outcomes this treatment can have?
> And they should be done so in the such a way as one would describe what sunlight feels like to someone who has never felt the sun.
Beyond telling a depressed patient that they might feel worse, what would you like to see a doctor say to them?
> The positive and negative effects need to be fully understood.
Do you think a doctor should discuss the statistics involved for all possible sequalae? Wouldn't that be the only way to properly present them?
http://www.rxlist.com/prozac-drug/side-effects-interactions.htm
> If a patient doesnt have time for this, then their mood problems likely arent bad enough to require prescription treatment.
How very condescending. Who are you to determine the extent of the suffering of others? Not cool.
By the way, each manufacturer's container for a medication includes a package label that lists the treatment-emergent adverse events, even if there are no causal relationships. All you have to do is ask your pharmacist for it. I don't think the pharmacist will have enough of these labels to place on each vial he fills, though.Why would you subject yourself to ECT believing that it will produce brain damage?
Next time you go to ANY doctor, before you leave the office, ask him to verbally list ALL of the possible side effects of the drugs he prescribes. That should be interesting.
One idea is to have all doctors hand out to each patient a list of the possible side effects of the drugs being prescribed. That might be a problem for people with OCD, phobias, non-compliance, hypochondriosis, psychosis, etc. Somewhere, there should be a balance. I don't think sitting down with each patient and describing all of the possible side effects is consistent with finding such a balance.
You have identified very real problems. However, I don't think they apply universally to all doctors, drugs, or drug companies.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
poster:SLS
thread:1082509
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20150901/msgs/1082711.html