Posted by psychobot5000 on April 6, 2007, at 21:32:53
In reply to Re: Best meds for anhedonia Declan,Quintal, posted by flmm on April 6, 2007, at 21:19:39
> Just because you confuse addiction with an antidepressant effect, something most addicts do, does not mean antidepressants don't work! They do in a lot of people, me included. Also, just because antidepressants don't work in you, does not mean you are not addicted to a harmful,negative drug. I doubt you have any opiate receptors left in your brain, hence the continued need for opiates! Good luck.......................
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I heard a brief list of reasons given once, by a professor at Harvard Medical school, concerning why he sometimes uses opiates for difficult depression patients. Potential addiction was merely one of several disadvantages and advantages in comparison with more traditional drugs(and it can be managed by rotating various opiates, apparently).There's little actual evidence to back up this view, though. I believe various people, afraid of a society of drug abusers, have somewhat exaggerated the case.
I have never used opiates for depression--they made my stomach hurt the few times I was given them for pain. That said, there is good theory that supports using them in certain depressive patients, I am told. And they do have decades of history being used for depression, before we had MAO inhibitors, stimulants, tricyclics arrived. According to that doc, the treatment resistant people on this board are just the types for whom they ought to be potentially considered.
Best,
'Psychbot5000'
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