Posted by linkadge on November 3, 2006, at 10:00:44
In reply to Re: SEROQUEL...monotherapy for Depression?/Li » linkadge, posted by Lindenblüte on November 3, 2006, at 8:41:04
Just to play the devils advocate, I think that if you were going to kill yourself you would have already. Antidepressants have not statistically altered the rate of suicide since their introduction.
Being addicted to a drug does is not always directly apparent right away.
The connotation of *addiction* sounds so harsh. You are right, we are addicted to air. I guess the real acid test is wheather the drugs continue to work for you. I define my experience as one of addiction owing to the fact that the drugs stopped working. In this case, I was faced with a regular pattern of tollerance and dose escalation in order to acheive the same effect. This is why I think of my case as being addicted to antidepressants.
Again, my disclamer is that I really don't know your case, and I am trying to rant in as general a sense as possable.
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