Probs. with Depr. Meds

Pat Roberts did a report this morning about the effects of Depr. Meds. Reports that some med. companies are doing deeper examinations on the drugs and the effects. High school student, while on a particular med, threatened to take students hostige. Whn taken off the meds. he explained that he had never thought of doing anything like that before. I have heard other stories of this. Perhaps the F&D administration will take this into account more seriously.


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Supposed to be coming up with a new medicine, taken only once a month, that will actually help the patents mind above average clarity and qiuckness. Have any heard of this yet...

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edit: feb27 04 4:28p
Im not sure how long youve taken meds, Mr. Chese, but I see your point, how we can give them meds to shut it, so we can make a differance.
Does that make any sense <--goofy face

Yeah, it's pretty crazy... I take issue with some of the mood-altering drugs. I think all of us need to alter our moods at times because we're human. But we don't need drugs to do that. That's why we have the Holy Spirit!

I have suffered severe depression for years. I am finally on a pill that has made a world of difference for me. I have taken other pills that had terrible effects. It is a well known problem that depressed people have a difficult time trying to find the right pill for them. If you have never suffered clinical depression, then you have no idea what this is about. If you want to tell me it is because of a lack of faith, then that's on your head.

Teenagers are having an especially difficult time with antidepressants. It's no wonder. they've been given amphetamines from an early age, and the food is laced with all kinds of drugs, and they are going through rapid physical and emotional changes. teenagers given psychoactive drugs need to be professionally monitored on a daily basis.

meds affect each individual differently. what happens to one person, doesn't necessarily mean it'll do the same to another person.

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I'd like to point out that the vast majority of drugs have never even had a claim of something like this. Especially the typical SSRIs (lexapro, zoloft, paxil etc...) would never cause something like that. Some of the newer anti-psychotics are coming out with caveats - as they've sometimes caused really rapid cycling in a person with low-level BPD... but here my knowledge breaks down.

Basically, when going on ANY drug, you (and those around you) should watch your physical AND mental behavior very closely. Whether your side effects come out in tics, loss of energy, mania... etc... they need to be watched closely - as it's very rare that a psychologist will have enough information to give a 100% certain diagnosis - ESPECIALLY if you're typically depressed, and have become very good at habitually lying. MOST depressed people I know try very hard to adjust their answers to fit what they think the doctor WANTS to hear. Until they have more experience in therapy that is.

I don't give much credance to these lawsuits though. While there are ALWAYS new experimental drugs out there, any drug use should be accompanied with regular therapy, AND regular visits to the psychologist (until side effects have leveled out). Americans (meaning all NORTH Americans) have become too quick to blame the system - the doctors, or the drugs - rather than deal with their own problems. I admit, there MUST have been malpractice problems where an incompetant psychiatrist prescribed a harmful drug, but the VAST majority of psychological treatment is entirely safe (ESPECIALLY when compared to suicide rates in untreated people).

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I agree with all of what Deamiter said, and i think some of it is important and we often forget about it. The American people have become very proficient at blaming other people for all their problems.

I think we also need to keep in mind that behaviors shown in people on these medications are often typical of their illnesses. Progession of their disease might be the cause of new sypmtoms, not neessarily caused by medication. (I am not saying that this is true in all cases either)

I am a believer in depression meds.
But I am not a believer in shoving them down all of our teenagers. I think this is another way to tell out kids to shut up and go away. We give them pills so we don't have to pay attention to their needs.