Posted by TemporarilyBob on October 27, 2012, at 10:11:14
In reply to Re: So how's this for confirmation? » TemporarilyBob, posted by Dinah on October 26, 2012, at 17:17:10
> I have had similar experiences. I hope one day soon DNA tests will help identify which medications will have a better chance of helping and which medications shouldn't be tried unless all else fails. Anything with NE is enormously bad for me, and SSRI's weren't good for me either. I wish they'd have never even given them a shot.
Amen to not giving SSRIs a shot, but when I was going through my 30 Months of Hell SSRIs were still held up as the "miracle drugs with little or no side effects!" Wish I could have had a video of me leaning hard as a could against the kitchen drawer with all the butcher and carving knives in it so I couldn't open it as my extremely argumentative, surprisingly-non-empathetic traditional-analyst-in-training ex-girlfriend was haranguing me about something minor even as I warned her verbally about my desire to grab a knife right then and there if she didn't shut up.
Or tapes of my sessions with my pdoc at the time... "I don't understand why zoloft is affecting you that way; it's not supposed to do that ... I don't know why prozac is doing that to you, it just is not in the literature ... paxil made you feel like WHAT?! Now I KNOW paxil is supposed to do the opposite of THAT ...."
> They know very little. But openminded doctors help them learn more all the time.And it was very refreshing and reassuring to have a pdoc say exactly that to me (that they know very little, that is). Reading between the lines: (1) if he hadn't said it, that he had read some of the latest literature and had formulated an opinion to work from; (2) that he did, that he is still following developments ... at the university hospital he's affiliated with perhaps even involved in research on it ... and that if something with strong evidence and multiple studies comes out he'll look to changing his views if prudent.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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