Posted by SLS on December 20, 2008, at 20:53:21
In reply to Re: How high are the chances venlafaxine might wor, posted by Racer on December 20, 2008, at 19:30:16
With depression, it is difficult to be certain that a drug will work. Just as important, it is not a certainty that a treatment will not work.
I will say this, though. If your depression is biological, you will likely still respond favorably to the right treatment regardless of how convinced you are that you won't. So, if it doesn't matter what you think, you might as well stay neutral to the idea that the treatment will work.
The above paragraph represents an oversimplification of the dynamics between the biological and the psychological. My advice to you is to try to remove as much "depressive pressure" as you can so as to allow the brain every chance to respond to treatment.
Depressive pressure (psychosocial stress) can trigger a depression in a biologically vulnerable individual. If not resolved, it can also lead to relapses and prevent once effective drugs from working again. The message here is that some people need to attend to the biological and psychological both.
- Scott
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