Posted by bornunderabadsign on February 12, 2001, at 3:17:10
In reply to antidepressants are drugs, drugs are drugs, posted by dennis on February 11, 2001, at 15:42:53
>I have also noticed that when a antidepressant >works, the improved mood or happiness feels very >artificial, not exactly the kind of happy >feeling you would feel if you were drug free.
So does telling someone a secret that exposes yourself and gone awry, so does making a decision that you regret the next morning. Such an affect is most likely a result of cognition.
A solicitous happiness really isn't hapiness at all, is it?
>It seems to me that drugs like amphetamines and >other illegal drugs that we as a society have >classified as dangerous and haveing no medical >value are exactly like antidepressants drugs.Amphetamines do have an accepted medical value- first as a bronchal dilator (Benzedrine), among other things, and now primarily as treatment for ADD/ADHD and narcolepsy.
>It seems to me that SSRIs are not fixing a >chemical imbalance in the brain, they are >makeing a chemical imbalance in the brain which >makes the person feel better.
What of a woman who inherits a proclivity for breast cancer? Doesn't treatment of such a condition take away from who she really is? Such an artificial act as medical treatmenmt is surely unreasonable.
What of Parkinson's Disease- a disease than involves the same cells as ADD/ADHD, just further back in the midbrain. Surely employers must value such a phenomenon as being unable to move, we're all different after all.
I think medicine is an empowerment, of who we *are* behind the biology, so, quite opposite, I posit that malady without remedy is the abberant and artificial state.
Also, I think it is much more likely that we have developed a neurobiological mechanism that makes us feel quite certain that our conciousness is impermiable, and, if it sometimes is, that such action is the greatest of enormities.
In other words, part of the magic of the gears than turn in our mind is their ability to convince us, despite the obvious, that they are mere imagination.
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