Posted by bulldog2 on January 31, 2010, at 16:36:07
In reply to Re: Is Suicide Ever A Viable Option?, posted by linkadge on January 31, 2010, at 15:48:16
> I also don't think that people realize how economially useful a truely safe and effective antidepressant would be.
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> Imagine a drug that completely and rapidly relieves depression - in a way where the patient can still experience deep emotion and true joy. A drug that restores deep restful sleep and effective, nonsedating relief of innapropriate anxiety. A drug that restores interest in everday activities without clouding the intellect. A drug that restores proper immune and endocrine function and effectively combats many of the dozens of the depression comorbid health conditions (diabetes, heart disease etc).
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> Such a drug would likely save billions related health costs and money due to lost productivity.
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> Perhaps such a drug or treatment is a fanacy, but it is a goal. The laser eye surgery of psychiatry.
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> I honestly just feel that people still see depression as a ficticious disease.
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>Man has been looking for such a drug for thousands of years. I don't think modern medicine doesn't care but they are tremendously frustrated by the complexity of this disease or diseases. Modern medicine for all the money they pour into looking for a cancer cure hasn't done that much better here. Most patients are still put through gruesome chemo treatments of dubious value.
I think western medicine thought they had the key to disease when they discovered bacteria. Find the bacteria that causes the disease and than find the approriate antibiotic. But cancer and mental illness have not been found to fall under the simple cause and effect model.
Right now medicines are produced for depression without knowing what the real causes are. So that's a real crap shoot. Science/medicine needs to know the root causes before we find really good meds that work in sync with the body. I don't think we've progressed beyong doctors who in the early 1900's used opiates and cocaine preperations for their patients. They work immediately for many however problems of tolerance and addiction have put them out of favor.
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