Posted by fachad on March 31, 2002, at 21:00:52
In reply to FACHAD: follow-up question #2 re MAOI's! » fachad, posted by Janelle on March 30, 2002, at 15:31:18
Once again, it boils down to "intersubjective differences".
People just have these unique biochemistries that react differently to different drugs, even though those drugs are supposed to do the same thing.
I think part of it is also subjective perception and subjective interpretation. By that I mean there is what the drug does (in your brain), and how you experience it and interpret it (in your mind).
> Fachad,
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> I have a parallel question to one I had about SSRI's (can't remember if you were one of the people who had answered that question or not) ... why, if MAOI's are designed to inhibit MAO, are there a bunch of different brands of them - is the chemical structure of each MAOI different so each MAOI acts on several different things (besides MAO) and these things vary from MAOI to MAOI ... like the way I was told that each SSRI affects several different things, and these things vary from SSRI to SSRI (they all do not just affect Serotonin), and this is why different people react differently to the various SSRI's. Is it like this for MAOI's also?
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