Posted by linkadge on September 17, 2006, at 17:00:43
In reply to Re: Tonight I don't feel that antidepressants work, posted by blueberry on September 17, 2006, at 16:32:12
Does anyone have a link to the star*d anyway?
Besides, how many long term studies do we have on these drugs. PEople here keep saying that "all the respoders are out enjoying their lives". But even that is just assumption. We don't really have any clue as to the number of people who have long term remission from these drugs.
Heck, if you make your time frame small enough, you could probably include illegal drugs into the list of substances which could achieve remission.
Its just like that exercise vs. zoloft study. Oh sure, in the first few weeks you can get some impressive effects with an AD. But by the end of the study, the exercise group was doing better.
Drug companies like to make their studies short, because it favors their drug, but long term, who knows.
Long term they just burn you out. You can mess around all you want with the neurotransmitters, but you're still restricted to cellular energy and integrity. You overwork the cell for too long and you run into problems at the level of the mitochondria. We're probably all f'd at the cellular level now. Thats why we're all bipolar, and taking mood stabilizers cause we've overworked the individual cells by forcing them to overwork by bombarding them with ultrabiological levels of neurotransmitter. Sure that might get you over a hump, but then what? Then you're dependant on it just to function normally.
Thats why you hear of people who were never suicidal before taking AD's become suicidal when they decide to quit, because now, the dismal level of neurotransmitter left is not enought to acheive the task at hand. Just like when you quit steroids, your own hormones just don't cut it.
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