Posted by bulldog2 on May 3, 2010, at 12:03:15
I'm beginning to see that forums such as this one may be giving the incorrect impression on the ratio or proportion of negative to positive feedback on medications.
There is a much greater tendency of people that have had negative side effects to use the internet as a forum to report these results or to even rant and rave. People who have had positive results don't tend to take the time to report them on forums.
People generally come to this forum because they have had med failures and are looking for info. So you have a lot of treatment resistant people reporting their failures. Than you might have the same people who tend to rant and rave over and over. This does influence people.
I'm not saying that these sides don't exist but I am saying that more than likely you will get the wrong impression as to a ratio of good to bad experiences. Just keep that in mind when forming an opinion about a drug.
More than likely most people who achieve remission will more than likely leave. People don't tend to hang around a forum on mental disease once they feel better.
There is some good info that can be found out here and some very knowledgeable people here that are very helpful. But you also need to be a strong willed person in terms of not letting people who may have an agenda keep you from making the correct decision.
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