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Re: diagnosis debacle

Posted by mila on August 1, 2001, at 10:09:05

In reply to diagnosis debacle, posted by sar on August 1, 2001, at 1:54:59

Hi sar,

the before starting meds diagnosis is right.
Prozac triggers hypomania in you, it did in me, although I am not a bipolar, borderline or histrionic, you would easily confuse me with one when I am on prozac.

Prozac will eventually cure your major depression, you seem to respond to SSRI, but social phobia and GAD do not go away without therapy. SSRI masks their presence but doesn't cure them. when you'll try to go off the meds the depression might not return, but these two suckers will. and the vicious cycle will begin again. Social isolation brought by social phobia is very depressing, and GAD is as well.

your problem is not that prozac leads to mistakes in diagnosis, but that it will interfere with therapy. First, your therapy will be geared towards dealing with the consequences of taking prozac instead of dealing with real stuff. Second, it influences your thinking and doesn't allow for the change in beilefs and new behaviors to take place (it will make you therapy resistant, so to speak).

hope this helps
mila


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