Posted by laima on January 12, 2007, at 22:40:32
In reply to Re: Do people feel medications help or mask symptoms? » leo33, posted by Quintal on January 12, 2007, at 22:30:59
Quintal, you bring up an interesting thing about "drugs of abuse"- I never figured it out until just recently, but like you I think that they are the ones which can produce a rapid and dramatic effect. In my own experience, I saw there was a rapid "benefit" to taking extra benzo, I can easily see a "benefit" to taking an extra adderall or ritalin- no such rapid boost anticipated from an extra Emsam patch! No wonder stimulants are frowned upon as antidepressents- a depressed person would naturally be extra-tempted to take more, because if a little can cause a dramatic improvement, and a little more does a bit more, so even more must be better...but of course, not quite so simple or true in the big picture.
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