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Date Posted: 22:25:30 02/26/08 Tue
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: I hate to say "I told you so"...
In reply to: Lynx 's message, "Re: I hate to say "I told you so"..." on 18:48:29 02/26/08 Tue

>>I regret that you see this an an "either/or"
>situation.
>
>If people really feel like they are benefitting from
>them, then so be it. I make it my business to let
>them know what CAN happen, because I went through
>hell. I repeat that getting off of them was the
>hardest thing I've ever done. That was nearly 20
>years ago, and I only started sleeping normally again
>about a year ago, no shit. I attribute my heart
>problems directly to my experience with
>anti-depressants.

It's not that people "feel like" they are benefiting from them. They simply do benefit from them, if correctly prescribed. Of course, drugs prescribed incorrectly can cause all kinds of problems. That isn't limited to depression-related symptoms. If everyone prescribed Prozac for every single illness, that would understandably mess a lot of people up, but it doesn't lessen the legitimacy for Prozac as a treatment for the specific type of depression it was engineered to cure.

It's just harder to diagnose depression correctly because you can't take chunks out of people's brains and run biopsies on them like you can with melanomas. Depression can be caused by chemical imbalances, or it can be the result of environmental factors... and the people who are depressed simply because of events that have happened in their lives are likely to be those who experience psychosomatic effects from placebos.

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Replies:

Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Lynx, 05:36:44 02/27/08 Wed
- Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Deep Diction, 06:51:42 02/27/08 Wed
  - Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Lynx, 08:08:40 02/27/08 Wed
    - Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Deep Diction, 08:20:53 02/27/08 Wed
      - Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Lynx, 08:30:18 02/27/08 Wed
        Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Deep Diction, 08:40:08 02/27/08 Wed
        Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Lynx, 09:53:43 02/27/08 Wed
        Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- orangelolli, 10:11:21 02/27/08 Wed
        Re: I hate to say "I told you so"... -- Deep Diction, 10:57:14 02/27/08 Wed

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