Posted by bulldog2 on February 20, 2007, at 9:37:47
In reply to Re: Are we culturally primed to expect too much?, posted by Quintal on February 20, 2007, at 8:49:34
There are a couple reasons that the ssris appeal to doctors. They don't have to worry about lethal overdose as with tcas. They don't have to worry about hypertensive crisis as they do with maois. Also there's the convenient once a day dosing with ssris. So the ssris are much easier to manage and less to worry in the near term for the physician. The reality is we don't know the long term effects of chronic elevation of just serotonin. The sexual sides which we know are very prevalent were never brought out in early studies of ssris.
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