Comments: How Safe Are Anti-Depressants?
The alcohol example also needs to be broken down by type. Some people can handle their liquor quite well if its one kind but go bat **** crazy if its a different type(happy drunk verses crying drunk verses angry drunk). For some its tequila verse vodka, for others its a white liquor verses the dark liquors. Light verses dark rum or tequila can have varying effects.
How many will avoid alcohol "X" because they loose control on it? Its that one type or mixed drink that gets them in trouble or cause judgment to drop a lot quicker than normal drunkenness.
You can see this secondary on which ones people can't hold down easily. It goes beyond the association smell and memory recall for vomiting/alcohol poisoning. Certain drinks work better for less hang over effect which varies far more than just being a power drinker.
Philip Dawdy responds: good point!
Posted by AL at February 23, 2009 11:43 AM
You are definitely right that some people do remarkably well on SSRI's and others they are an utter disaster. But this is the case for all drugs for either physical or mental illnesses. I know that to be a fact for both types. The problem is that doctors rarely warn about what those rare dangerous effects are. Then there are some doctors who don't react when a patient calls to complain about those rare effects. But that is a doctor's job to prepare a patient for these eventualities and respond accordingly when they occur. Often, doctors just don't want to be bothered.
Posted by Tony at February 23, 2009 12:20 PM
Maybe a better analogy might be humor: you tell a joke, and some people laugh, some groan, some don't get it, some get hurt or offended.
Posted by MedsVsTherapy at February 23, 2009 02:08 PM
I would speculate that people who died of overdose of SSRI's might have had a pre-existing serotonin syndrome that was ignore and never diagnosed. There is a spectrum of serotonin syndrome, some people are at the low end, some get dangerously ill very quickly when taking as prescribed, not just SSRI's but many other drugs that affect serotonin levels used in every day medicine.
Posted by Alison Hymes at February 23, 2009 02:16 PM
The difference between a physical drug and a mental drug is that you can stop the "physical drug" at once.
However "mental drugs" have withdrawal symptoms even when a person has been on them for a short period of time.
Side effects of "mind drugs" are quite debilitating mentally and physically.
Posted by Ana at February 23, 2009 11:53 PM
No body can realize how severe withdraw symptoms can be except the person who has experienced them.
Getting rid of these symptoms can be a process that lasts for an extended period of time. Perseverance is the main ingredient in this process.The symptoms come and go, and they seam like they never end when they occur, but they do go away for a while only to come back later.You only need to learn how to hang in there
Posted by seomul at February 24, 2009 11:21 AM