Posted by bulldog2 on October 2, 2010, at 16:47:58
In reply to Re: Experiment of own on SSRI's, posted by linkadge on October 2, 2010, at 15:03:54
> >I hope I'm not speaking too brash--I've only >been on the forum for 1 week. After 4 years of a >depressive and painful college experience, I'm >hoping to get some ideas on new avenues of >action.
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> This is it. I would argue that those with TRD are *more* likely to remain iscolated and not give their impressions of a medication.
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> Those who respond are the ones that want to tell everbody how grrrrreat lexapro is!!!!!
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> Linkadge
>Blatantly wrong! You based you statement on what one new person said. That is not the scientific method. It is known and often said this forum is largely composed of trd people. That imples treatment failures. If all the happy people proclaiming how well their ad is working it is not here. In private correspondance people have commented on the negative tone in here.
Also almost always when people get well they leave.
Seriously that is like saying a hospital is mostly healthy people. This is like a hospital. People come here and are looking for answers. Once they get their info they're out of here.Yes big pharma lied and manipulated the truth. The old maois and tcas have a better chance of working. So use them if necessary. The ssris can be used as add on. One p-doc that many have read uses zoloft plus nortriptyline. So there are three decent old ads and combos to work with.
You yourself once old med that clomipramine is a fine drug. Elavil works. You may not like the maois but for some trd they actually work. Go to askapatient and there is a one to five rating on many meds and patient reviews.
There is large volume of people that rate some drugs. I think that will give a better feeling about a drug. We have a small volume of people that post on babble and some keep posting the same thing. That is like voting multiple times for the same candidate. Not scientific and not accurate.
Being angry and venting over and over is not productive. Big pharma will give you what they chose to. Lying and manipulation is criminal. But the capitalist way is making a profit. The better the product the more money they make. This reminds me of the war on cancer. They just can't figure this thing out. It's to their advantage to find the silver bullet. Right now they just can't figure it out. It's not a plot or something they're doing on purpose. Drugs that don't work hurt the bottom line. They bent the truth and as I said that is criminal and should be pursued if laws were broken.
Time to move on and look for things that work. Right now my percocet, neurontin, and chocolate mocha work for me. Maybe in a couple months I will find a new combo. But ssris are old news. I don't like them for various reasons.
But our time is better spent looking for things that work. There are enough meds out there that may actually help or be used in combo. What big pharma did is old news.
That was what Olivia was talking about and I think you missed her point of view. I want to know what works and not what just doesn't work. I look in alternative and in the med section I look for unconventional approaches. I've stopped reading the other stuff. I do get it.
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