Posted by sedona on June 15, 2005, at 19:45:28
In reply to Re: SSRI's - question, posted by linkadge on June 14, 2005, at 15:43:38
> "for *most* people the drugs work"
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> I don't think this is true. Perhaps, for most of these people the drugs are placebo's, and work in that manner. Some peole's depression is very situational, and improves over time by itself. I think people like the idea of having something to attibute their improvement to, just like rabit's feet, q-wray bracelets etc. It gives them a sence of controll. So when things naturally get better, they feel control over the situation by attributing it to the antidepressant.
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> I mean I know that I start to wonder why the drug companies need to work so hard to try and prove their drug is better than the placebo.
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>I agree with you, although I live in the Pacific Northwest where depression is fairly high. Of the six people I know that have been on or are on antidepressants, the results have been grim. One person became a zombie from the side-effects and had to quit, one person was doing great until he became manic and thus was pronounced to be bipolar, three people I know have tried many different antidepressant drugs (4 or more)with very little to no relief, and only one person I know -who is taking Paxil, is happier and glad to have started antidepressants. These are just people I know from work, and they are not Psycho Babblers. So, I think that there might actually be many more people like us out there that don't use the internet for imformation like we do. But, hey, that's just my opinion on the subject.
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