Posted by jedi on January 30, 2011, at 1:27:29
In reply to Re: My beef with cymbalta commercial!!, posted by morgan miller on January 29, 2011, at 22:44:02
> Yeah those damn Abilify commercials too. They all bug me, even the old jumping happy face Zoloft commercials. I just don't think psychiatric medications have a place on television advertising. I guess I feel the same way about the ED drugs and others. F*ck*ng pharmaceutical industry.
Morgan,
I agree 100%. Advertising psychotropic medications in the mass media is a joke. I was talking to my sister about my residual dysthymia even while taking Nardil. She says "Why don't you just take Abilify?" Like this is going to just magically work as an augmentation for anything. I was so taken back by this since my sister works in a hospital buying equipment and devices for surgeons and spent many years as a transcriptionist. She actually has 100 times the medical knowledge of most laypersons. But just because of some ad on TV, she thought this medication would work for me.Well, I have taken Abilify. It gave me the only case of akathisia I have ever had. I was literally crawling out of my skin on this medication and I will never touch it again. Sure, it will benefit some people. But compare the number of people who will actually benefit from the medication to the number of people that see these commercials and get false hope.
The power of advertising. It is truly amazing.
Jedi
Jedi
Treatment resistant, atypical, double depression with social anxiety.
Nardil + clonazepam
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