Posted by francesco on December 27, 2004, at 6:18:57
In reply to Re: To Francesco, posted by linkadge on December 26, 2004, at 19:40:39
> It's not really obsession. Its a simple fact that I the *only* problem that I had before I took SSRI's was that I was a little bit blue.Linkadge I don't think they are obsessions as 'my mother will die if I don't say 'Jesus Christ' 33 times'. I actually don't think they are *necessarily* false. I think they are 'obsessions' in the sense that that they're unuseful and that they worsen the quality of your life. I had horrible experiences with meds too and I read all Breggin's books. So, I can emphatyze with what you're saying.
My other point is that reading psychobabble, thinking about dopamine and serotonin, prozac and celexa, bring us to commit a 'biologicistical' bias. We are not able to see anymore that our happyness or sadness depends also on how our life goes, how we imagine our future, our relationships and so on. We are just like the freudian psycoanalists who see everywhere inconscious problems, and this doesn't want to mean that the biologic approach to mental illness is *false*. This just want to mean that it's not the whole thing, that our brain chemistry is influenced also by what we think about all day long !!!
Sorry if my english is weird, I have not yet taken my Anafranil pill ;-)
By the way, in Italy benzos are prescribed like candies. But we don't have stimulants : (
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