Posted by Iago Camboa on August 14, 2002, at 8:35:37
In reply to Re: Say Never to Alcohol and Chloral hydrate, posted by Hiba on August 13, 2002, at 23:51:17
There was a guy who had depression. Almost everybody on this board knows by experience depression can be like hell on earth. The person I'm speaking about had indeed a very 'nasty' depression and felt in hell... Now his girlfriend (or his mother-in-law, I can't remember) told him about drugs called antidepressants and adviced him to try 'Bardil' (if you prefer put here the name of any effective antidepressant: it will do just as well in this most true and important story).
After a few weeks our friend's depression subsided and he felt like a new person. But alas, he commited the error of thinking he had completely healed. He stopped his 'Bardil' one beautiful day, 'cold turkey' and without ceremonies. A few days after he became depressed again (as was to be expected, from his imprudence...) and felt in hell again. Only when he described what happened to him and how he felt in a post on this board he didn't speak of "depression" this time ( perhaps better would be "aggravated depression") , rather he attributed the symptoms he felt to "'Bardil''s withdrawal". And everybody began to believe in the brand new 'syndrome'...I did't want to be provocative but for me benzos are unharmful meds, don't create any addiction nor any tolerance and don't have any withdrawal effects. I mean, those effects felt (to the contrary) have other causes (just see the above story) and are only misattributed to the benzos because it is the fashion. Not long ago every 'neuro-psychiatrical' disease was attributed (wrongly!) to the 'evil spirits' as the very words 'attack' and 'seizure' attest... Now the culprits are 'the benzoman' and 'the xanaxman'. Do what? I'd rather laugh to my own self, shut up in public and wait for the next fashion...
If you respond to this post I will not be able to respond back because I'm just leaving next Aug 16 early in the morning and will not have access to any computer during ten days. Sorry.
The best for everybody,
Iago
poster:Iago Camboa
thread:116248
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