Comments: Serotonin Syndrome? It's In The Times
I'm curious -- just what did you hear from people over your little comment that psych meds might be like neutron bombs? (I like that analogy!) Did you get a lot of blasts from both sides or more from one than the other?
Posted by Sara at February 27, 2007 11:37 AM
A friend who was taking THE SSRI of choice described her overall feelings to me: She said she could "function" but she felt like someone had stolen her soul. Because we shared similar "feelings," I, too, began describing my medicated-feeling thusly. Eventually, I decided I would rather have the depression than the souless emptiness. (I'm not bi-polar, so cannot relate to 'mania', but I suspect many of the atypicals could also render such a perception).
Posted by Melody at February 27, 2007 01:25 PM
"efficacious hype"...
"Professionals denied to my face that these effects were present yet they obviously were.."...
...'"breakthrough" symptoms.." ..
.."I was met with cold stares"..
.."And, then, the CATIE study came out, pretty much confirming everything I'd picked up on."...
Welcome, to my world. (est.1999).
Posted by Stephany at February 27, 2007 06:02 PM
Okay, I'm going to answer my own question since I reread the post a bit more carefully and it's obvious from your drift that you were hearing from the psych establishment and they were none too pleased and/or those patients who thought the drugs had "saved their lives" and both groups were worried you might be scaring people from this "life-saving" treatment. But sometimes when you put out something like that people come out of the woodwork and say, gee, you know -- that's what I thought too when I took the drugs, that they were neutron bombs and I thought I was the only one. That's what happened when the BBC did a documentary on Paxil withdrawal. They got 65,000 replies from viewers and each and every one of them thought they were alone, the only one that was having trouble getting off Paxil.
Posted by Sara at February 27, 2007 07:12 PM