Posted by vainamoinen on March 27, 2006, at 16:44:40
In reply to Any more studies done on SSRI/corscrew receptors?, posted by linkadge on March 26, 2006, at 17:00:05
My experience has been, after being on an SSRI for about 6 years now, that if I decrease the dosage in anything but an excruciatingly slow manner I go into a tailspin of depression.
So in a way it's not unlike methadone or heroin or any other addictive drug.
Now the flip side is that I am convinced that if it were not for antidepressants I would be dead by my own hand a long time ago.
So I'm strung out on prozac. Seems like a small price to pay for the quality of life I enjoy now.
And if I'm fattening the wallets of big pharm so be it. I'm also contributing towards their R&D budgets which may find a cure for cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.
The more cynical view would be that a cure for any of those maladies is not in the best interest of big pharm. But even a treatment of lifelong medication is better than the alternative is it not?
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