Posted by Racer on July 9, 2005, at 13:20:53
In reply to Re: Regarding the whole Chemical Imbalance thing, posted by linkadge on July 9, 2005, at 0:11:03
Maybe I shouldn't have posted this. I got set off, big time, by a post above that cited a bunch of alarmist articles about how this whole concept of "chemical imbalance" was utterly wrong, that it had no scientific basis, etc -- and that the antidepressant medications of the world were some sort of evil plot against us. That sort of thing does set me off.
I guess what I was trying to say, really, is that it's good to read things like that skeptically, and that whether or not anyone knows the exact mechanism of action, these drugs do work.
Now, you want the qualifiers? Fine. They work for some people, some time. I know that as well as you do, since I've tried so many of them over the years. For a lot of people, though, they work well enough. Just some of us, like you, me, Scott, etc -- well, we're special. How's that? We're special, so we have to try more meds.
Now I'm done with this topic. Mostly because I'm over being worked up about having those other sites cited on this board...
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