Posted by Chairman_MAO on June 14, 2005, at 20:11:26 [reposted on June 14, 2005, at 22:17:36 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Exercise for severe depression » Chairman_MAO, posted by gromit on June 13, 2005, at 17:22:28
I live in NJ and go to the University of Med and Denistry behavioral health clinic in New Brunswick, NJ. Despite being a public clinic, they have some of the most competent psychiatrists in the state, IMO. The mental health centers elsewhere in the state pale in comparison to this one. For instance, I was actually able to see a resident whose supervising physician used to be an anesthesiologist, is a coloniel in the US army, and isn't aversive to prescribing MAOIs for hard-to-treat patients. I suffered many years between attempting to self-medicate/drug addiction and incompetent shrinks, which reinforced my perceived need to self-medicate. Thank god I'm off the 3-year-long SSRI-go-round.
This doctor that I see routinely gives talks at addiction medicine forums about drug action, etc., and actually seems to know what he is talking about. This is good, since it is really hard for me to trust a doctor to Rx me medicine when I know more about the drugs than they do.
For the buprenorphine, I was referred out to a methadone clinic type place, but only because of the stupid federal 30-patient limit on sublingual buprenorphine. Otherwise, he just would've Rx'ed it himself.
Exercise has only become pleasant now that I take an MAOI, an opioid, and a dopamine agonist. Keep in mind that phenelzine or buprenorphine ALONE are both used for treatment resistant depression, but I only get good results taking BOTH, heh. Furthermore, augmentation with a DA agonist is generally only done for TRD as well, but I get optimal results using it to augment the other two. Oh, wait, most of life has become enjoyable, too. ;) This leads me to believe that most antidepressants on the market simply barely work or do not work at all.
I really envy those people who are biologically lucky enough to have things wired in their brains to allow for that sort of state of consciousness without taking three drugs.
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