Posted by SLS on June 3, 2011, at 4:18:28
In reply to Re: Do we expect too much of antidepressants today?, posted by emmanuel98 on June 3, 2011, at 0:04:54
Hi E.
> There are people in AA who object to psych meds as "happy pills" that keep people from the real, painful work of growth and change through the 12 steps. These people have obviously never themselves suffered from MDD. Anti-depressants are not happy pills. I expected them to be when I first started seeing a psychiatrist. I expected that they would substitute for my opiate and alcohol addiction. But they didn't make me happy. They just made me a little less angry and irritable.
Have you tried combining Zoloft with Trileptal and possibly adding lithium? If you go with an MAOI, you could still add these other drugs.
I think most of us on PB recognize that a healthy brain does not guarantee a healthy mind. Neither does a healthy mind guarantee happiness. People on PB almost never describe antidepressants as being "happy pills". This is a mischaracterization of clinical effects of these drugs.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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