Posted by bsj on December 11, 2003, at 16:44:59
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal - very bad news, posted by Blissful_Girl_NOT on December 11, 2003, at 16:12:16
"It never ceases to amaze me how many of the drugs for treating anxiety, dpression, etc., are handed out by docs like candy without ever really discussing what your life is going to be like once you're on them...or god forbid...once you have to go off of them."
ADs are the modern laudanum: they're handed out for anything and everything. And if you try to give many of them up, you run into the same problem as laudanum. We don't know enough about the longterm effects of these drugs to use them so readily. I'm beginning to think that stimulants should be a first-line treatment for depression; amphetamine's been with us for 100+ years, and we know far more about it than any modern AD.
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