From: Grlygrl201@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 19 2000 - 07:33:49 PDT
In a message dated 8/18/00 5:20:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joelinda1@home.com writes:
<< The SSRI's are actually not more effective in treating
depression than many of the older antidepressant drugs, but they are
much safer and have less side-effects. What they all do is restore the
neurotransmitter balance so that the patient can think and feel as he
normally would. It restores the mind back to a more normal state of
functioning, much like exogenous insulin might be required to restore
a normal state of glucose metabolism in a diabetic. Since we know
that some patients are prone to recurrent neurotransmitter imbalance
resulting in frequent depressive symptoms (perhaps you, Eirikur), it
makes a lot of sense for these persons to remain on SSRI's
indefinitely.
>>
Was waiting for your input. :-) I am puzzled by Jeff's immediate reaction
to zoloft, which sounds like mania. Don't antideps take weeks and weeks to
saturate the brain?
(sorry to discuss you in the third person, jbone)
Also, your thoughts on welbutrin, which is being used to treat everything
from ADD to depression to smoking cessation. How the heck does THAT work?
(tried it for a bit for ADD - hated it.) I ask my doctor questions about how
meds work, how I work, but their answers are always murky. I am beginning to
think doctors are so hyperaware of liability that they think an explanation
might come off sounding like a claim or promise. Or maybe they just don't
know.
GG
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