Posted by denise528 on March 28, 2004, at 12:11:25
In reply to Is any of this research on SSRIs really legit?, posted by Lindsay Rae on March 21, 2004, at 11:48:52
Hi,
Just wanted to add that I entirely agree with Snapper's comments. I genuinely believe that all SSRIs work pretty much the same, if they are going to work and in most cases they do work. It is not until you get to the point where you are Treatment resistant that they stop working and that's when the frustration really begins.
I used to be very fortunate when I first started taking ADs, the first one I took (prothiaden) a tryciclic, worked really well and very quickly, the second one I took years later, this time Seroxat (paxil) again worked really well and very quickly. I thought depression was so treatable and that these drugs worked for everyone. If It is only from my last awful experience with depression and the trial and error process of trying different drugs at different dosages in different combinations that I have realised how untreatable it can feel and be.
I also think that in future any new drug trials are only conducted on people who suffer from TRD, who have failed to respond sufficiently on existing drugs on the market because there is a proportion of people like the ones on this board who have tried everything, who are still suffering and are losing hope. Why waste more time on bringing out more drugs of the same kind and just including people who suffer from depression but not necessarily TRD, if there is a treatment that already works for them then why use them in the study, they already have something that works. I do however, believe in conducting studies to try and work out the difference between somebody "normal" somebody with "depression" and somebody with "hard to treat depression"
The drug companies and scientists should spend more time conducting studies and research on people with difficult to treat depression.
Denise
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