Posted by scatterbrained on March 27, 2006, at 20:47:37
I don't know about you guys but from my personal experience and understanding, stimulants given to people with depression is not always the greatest long term idea for one main reason, they STOP WORKING. People with ADD/ADHD without a mood disorder tend to not have this problem, they can go on for years taking the same dose. Unfortunatly, the doctors I have seen don't seem to understand this. They will switch to another Stimulant or combine two instead if it stops working.I read all the time on this board about Adderal or other stims wearing off after a few days and people are at a loss for what to do.Desipramine is used for ADD and is an antidepressant, why is this not used instead of the stims, probably one reason, the drug is not as new as provigil or focalin or adderal xr. Psychiatry is PATHOLOGICALLY obsessed with the newest most fasionable drug, to the point where they don't even know how to use the drugs that have come prior. Another example of this preoccupation is present in their bias towards SSRI's .
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