Posted by Christ_empowered on June 3, 2011, at 12:20:19
In reply to yes, but..., posted by Christ_empowered on June 2, 2011, at 3:17:25
...why we keep getting more and more over-priced, ineffective pills on the market.
I mean, personally, I'm reasonably lucky, as crazy goes. I take Abilify, I'm not psychotic. I take Celexa, my social phobia and psychotic depression get better. But I can't Celexa forever, because it makes me too apathetic to function. I doubt I'm the only one in this situation.
I find the whole "antidepressant" concept misleading. Really? Anti-sad pills? Sign me up, please.
My current shrink refers to Celexa as a "tranquilizer." That's the sort of thinking that needs to come back into psychiatry--pills that calm people down, pills that perk people up, basic stuff. "Antidepressant" ? Please. If antibiotics failed as much as "antidepressants" do, they would have been abandoned long ago. If anti-epileptic drugs worked as miserably as "antidepressants," epilepsy would either be crippling or science would have moved on to other forms of treatment.
Not only is that term "antidepressant" misleading, I think it gives the false sense that this pill acts specifically on depression and is effective, when that's simply not the case.
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