Posted by Paul Jay on May 21, 2000, at 8:30:16
In reply to Re: me too..., posted by juniper on May 20, 2000, at 1:54:14
Same here -- I have what seems to be an addictive personality, and I have difficulties with medications: there's no effect, or the effect fades and doesn't return even after a long break, or I have to take twice as much, or there's no increased benifit from even four times as much, or the effect from each dose is very brief.
If these two things are related, I think the addictive part could be caused by whatever makes the meds so generally ineffective -- the brain might be resistant or tolerant in a similar way to its own chemicals. Perhaps the brain can adapt in part to a specific deficiency, but not as well to an overall problem, leaving an unfulfilled desire for something to change its state; thus the link between the wide ranging effect on medications and the addictive tendancy?
In my own case at least I think the problem might lie with the receptors. The only drug I've taken recently that worked as it oughta was a beta blocker, which operates by preventing the stimulation of receptors, rather than causing or encouraging it directly or down the line.
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