Posted by bleauberry on May 30, 2010, at 17:12:33
In reply to Depression? whats that? i can't remember, posted by paulbwell on May 27, 2010, at 21:43:10
I love to see people get well like this! Awesome. It doesn't happen very often. But when it does, it is just so cool! Love to witness it. Glad he came in to share his story.
I have zero evidence to back up what I am going to say. Just my own thoughts.
I get the feeling that it is not the ritalin alone that works. It is the synergistic combination of ritain and prozac. Each complimenting each other. Stimulatory and inhibitory all enhanced together, as well as the unique functions that only prozac has amongst the ssri me-toos. I would almost guess that the result of zoloft+ritalin or lexapro+ritalin would not be the same result as prozac+ritalin.
Of interest is the very specific type of ritalin he is using. I have my doubts that any other version would work as well for him. I don't think they would.
It's a fine art. I'm glad he found a masterpiece. Had his doctor had him on a different ssri, or on a regular release generic version of ritalin, the outcome I think would have been much less impressive.
I remember reading about a hospital that treats their elderly depressed patients (90+ years of age) with ritalin as their first choice antidepressant. That's because it works fast, usually in mere days, and has far fewer side effects than so-called antidepressants. It's because in the frail, they just can't handle things cymbalta or whatever the going trend is.
It kind of makes you wonder, if they know ritalin can rapidly restore the frail elderly to the persons they were before depression, why mess around with all the other crap on the market with the rest of us. I would consider myself frail.
I guess a whole book could be written on that topic.
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