Posted by mike lynch on July 24, 2007, at 18:45:38
In reply to Re: SSRI brain damage » mike lynch, posted by Larry Hoover on July 24, 2007, at 9:19:59
> > In my experience, I am almost positive that they caused brain damage. My emotions aren't the same, my sex drive has been permanently hindered, my memory was effected, motivation and passions destroyed. These were never problems before I started ssri's.
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> Same for me. But....
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> Untreated depression does all those things. I have seen no convincing evidence that any antidepressant fully reverses the effects of the underlying disorder. In other words, the disease is free to progress, even in hidden ways, during periods of "treatment". Neither of us is the same as we were before treatment.
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> Individual vulnerabilities to specific stressors, including the treatments themselves, could be all there is to it. There's so much we don't understand. Just take a look at this preliminary summary of nutritional stress caused by medication: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/index.htm (select drugs/depletions
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> I know, for myself, that when I entered into drug treatment, the choice was stark. What I had, untreated depression, was sufficient to motivate me to try just about anything, to find relief.
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> LarYa maybe for some people, but not for me. I had mild depression, and the SSRI's caused symptoms I never even had before, which were worse then the original symptoms I was trying to combat. Even when I wasn't depressed these symptoms still persisted, i've fought long and hard with whether or not it was depression or the drugs, when I lost most of my sex drive at age 20, and started experiencing ejaculatory anhedonia, I realized unequivocally that the drugs were the culprit, nothing else mase sense. Couple that with experiences I have found on the internet that relay the exact same thing, I'm pretty much positive of the distinction between the condition and the drugs.
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