Posted by Tomatheus on June 19, 2006, at 21:14:30
In reply to Re: Opiates, posted by flmm on June 19, 2006, at 20:03:05
> SSRI med are very powerfull, and need to be handled with more care then most people think. But for most people, they give them their lives back!
Most people?? Where's your evidence to support this? Or are you just going by the propaganda that the pharmaceutical companies are so fond of spouting?
I can't speak for others, but when I took Paxil, it didn't "give me my life back." It was ineffective for my depressive symptoms at lower doses and caused me to cycle between hypomania and severe depression at 60 mg/day. That led to me being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and being prescribed lithium (among other awful meds), which left me with a tremor that still hasn't gone away after having been off the med for a year. The only medication that ever did any good for me was Nardil -- but only the Australian Nardil (when they were still putting silica gel inside the bottles), and only when I prepared it a certain way.
The fact of the matter is that most of these so-called "soft" forms of bipolar disorder never existed before the SSRIs were introduced. And unlike the SSRIs, the TCAs and the MAOIs (and I mean the *real* Nardil and the *real* Parnate, before their respective formulations were changed) were never shown to have a stronger association with suicidal ideation than placebo.
So come on, if you're willing to say that SSRIs give most people their lives back, show me the evidence!
Or how about this: if anybody out there reading this has been "given their life back" (or even benefited in a significant way) from taking an SSRI, why don't you tell us about it? Likewise, let's also hear from those whose lives have been made worse -- or not any better -- from taking SSRIs. Such a survey obviously wouldn't be scientific, but unless you're able to supply us with some scientific evidence to support your claim, the responses posted here would be the best that we have to go by, as far as this thread is concerned.
Tomatheus
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