Posted by hyperfocus on December 30, 2009, at 22:31:33
In reply to Why do meds stop working?, posted by inanimate peanut on December 29, 2009, at 21:34:01
That's why the advice I never get tired of giving is, if you're feeling better stay on your meds. Do not adjust, flip, swap, reduce, remove. No matter how logical it is or how trivial it is. If you have serious side-effects consider treating them with other meds if possible. If you stop a med there is a very high probability it will not work for you when you come back to it.
I don't know why this is but as others have said there is probably some systemic process that is hidden under pharmacological scientists playing whack-a-mole with neurotransmitters. Maybe we don't have the theoretical tools as yet to understand this since it is occurring at the brain/mind boundary. Maybe in the future we'll look at SSRIs the same way we look at cold baths and lobotomies now.
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