Posted by madeline on October 23, 2006, at 17:09:05
In reply to Wanted To Ask This For A Long Time, posted by Phillipa on October 22, 2006, at 22:18:31
I can hear the frustration in your post. I'm sorry you are struggling with this.
Okay, so you've been posting here for 2 years and only one or two people have gotten "well".
It's enough to make anyone question whether or not drugs are a good thing.
However, a few things come to mind:
1. Both here and in the "psych" ward as you put it is a very biased sample. If people were cured, would they post on a mental health support site, or be an inpatient? No. In both cases you are looking at people that are sick, not the general population.
2. Can depression/anxiety be cured, or does it just remit like cancer? The answer, like cancer is "no". Can it be treated? Yes. Does the treatment always work? No. Would you tell a cancer patient to stop?
3. As far as combinations of drug and not knowing which ones work, I think you are leaving out an important aspect of pharmacology. That a lot of the time drugs work better in combination, and a single drug alone may not have much of an effect. Examples? Norvasc, Augmentin, Aspirin & Plavix, SSRIs & Provigil, Percocet etc... Often it is not just one drug having an effect, so it is impossible to single it out.
4. As far as grand and glorious thinking is concerned - well, none of this sounds very grand and glorious to me. As another poster indicated, this is war and we are all in the trenches.
Hope you feel better soon. At least the sun came out a little today, but brrrr... it was cold. Ah winter in the south.
maddie
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