Posted by linkadge on November 16, 2008, at 9:50:18
In reply to Re: Anyone Ever Feel More Confused At This Forum?, posted by bulldog2 on November 16, 2008, at 8:36:33
>Again we have to remember that what worked for >you may not work for others.You were one of the >lucky ones that found a natural formula that >worked. Others have not been that fortunate.
I don't beleive there is anything inherently wrong with taking medications. I just think that people need to keep an open mind. There are still many misconceptions today. Even still these days, I hear people talking about how they have a defective serotonin gene, and how the SSRI's fix the problem. Doctors are actually still telling their patients this, even though such claims are completely unfounded.
There is too much faith (IMHO) in what doctors want to present as 'established' facts about mood disorders. In many ways we are finding out things that are completely contradictory to conventional belifes.
The 'serotonin hypothesis' of depression for isntance, grows weaker with every year of research. I think that some people believe that the only true cures can come from doctors. Faith in the efficacy of a treatment probably accounts for more than half of a treatment's efficacy. For most people, alternatives probably don't work because of a lack of faith in their efficacy.
I started to loose faith in the validiy of modern psychiatry as I leared about just how biased much of the data on conventional antidepressants is. In many ways, the drugs stopped working as I began to loose that faith.
In some ways it was a painful paradigm shift that I did not want to embrace. But the more I sift through research the more I learn that concerns me about what people are lead to believe.
I mean, if you want to talk lack of research, just look at some of the drug coctails that patients are given. Patients are given meds for bipolar like topomax, gapapentin, dispite the fact that there is virtually no data to support their use in bipolar. Numerous untested coctails are routinely used are used in mood disorders. Many studies indiciate that combinations of certain drugs increase the nerotoxicity. I remember reading that an SSRI / depakote combination created a synergistic increase in oxadative stress and free radical production compared to either alone.
In mood disorders there are a nummber of findings about things like excessive neurogenic inflamation, mitochondrial dysfunction, glial pathologies, HPA axis imballences, electrolyte imbalances, oxadative stress, significantly depleated anxioxidant systems etc. Many of these things are probably better adressed through dietary and lifestyle manipulations.
Many medication depleat nutirents that heal. Some increase oxidative stress, some are cause mitochondrial dysfunction, some are neuroendocrine disruptorrs, some worsen HPA axis imballances.
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