Posted by yxibow on October 13, 2009, at 21:37:33
In reply to Re: SLS, yxibow, linkadge other experts...., posted by bleauberry on October 13, 2009, at 19:01:41
> > I'm glad it has worked for you, Link...
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> > But the only real proven way is a washout of medication(s) affecting the transmitters.
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> I didn't know this was proven?
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> I thought proven meant "the ability to duplicate over and over with reliable consistency".Pardon me, I didn't say it would be a guarantee, but I have a strong hunch. You're right, it isn't proven.
> I've been screaming to an empty room for months now that I think poor Jereon is being led far off the path with the sole focus being antipsychotics.If a definition of mental illness is "trying the same thing that has failed over and over", then Jereon's doctors are surely more ill than he is.
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> The only thing here that I see as proven...well, not quite there but really close...is that antipsychotics are not Jereon's answer.Perhaps not his only answer -- but what has been going on is a constant shifting and merry-go-rounding of medications practically every week it seems.
And then when side effects, which are natural with any medication, are encountered, another, and another combination of antipsychotics are used.
That doesn't mean they aren't useful in a psychotic disorder -- what it means to me is that NONE have been tried long enough.
And I guess what I meant is from my own experience of dropping things like a brick, you can't just drop antipsychotics all over the place without expecting some sort of transmitter mess.
As I think I was trying to illuminate, was that perhaps there was an overload. Perhaps a washout would be good. I shouldn't have said it was proven, but I did mean that sometimes it is a worthy idea.
As for antidepressants in concerto, I don't see any reason why not -- they may help some of the negative symptoms of a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, the apathy.
-- tidings
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