Posted by SLS on May 21, 2015, at 0:26:44
In reply to Re: correction- Scott thanking God for drug treatments, posted by Lamdage22 on May 20, 2015, at 11:51:16
> You thank god for psychiatric medication yet you are still desperate enough to have holes and electrodes drilled into your skull? DBS?
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> With all due respect, that doesnt make any sense.Drugs help me enough so as to allow me to shop for food and pay bills. They allow me to live independently. I do not take this good fortune for granted. Included in my praise of God and psychotropics is their success in bring many other people into remission and the ability to achieve mental health and work towards happiness. However, it might be time for me to more vigorously pursue brain stumulation techniques, which include magnetic and direct current treatments. My brain is adept at reacting to positive drug responses with tachyphylaxis. Perhaps the combination of pharmacological and tissue stimulation would work for me.
I know that you have had your disappointments with psychotropic drug treatments. Since I don't know the details of your symptomatology and treatment history, it is difficult to offer suggestions that might renew your hopes for treatment success. For every new drug that becomes available, a certain percentage of previously treatment-resistent people will go on to respond well to it. I'm waiting for cariprazine to become available. It works like Abilify, but is stronger at D3 receptors in the limbic system. I am hoping that this translates into a more robust antidpessant effect.
- 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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