Posted by waterlily on September 26, 2002, at 13:47:39
In reply to Antidepressants versus placebo smackdown!, posted by Anyuser on September 24, 2002, at 9:49:24
I feel the same way as you. I guess it's the implication that I don't really need the medication, that the whole condition is my imagination. I can also take it to mean that if only I had the mental muscle, I could make myself better.
I've had great success with both Zoloft and Wellbutrin. I've been on Wellbutrin for five years and have tried about three times to get off the antidepressant, each time going into it with a very positive attitude and each time experiencing another major depressive episode before I was completely off the medication. I've also had major flops when starting other medications, each time fully expecting them to work.
I think I'm just going to say that for myself, medication is effective and needed and that opinion is shared by my therapist and pdoc. To heck with what the studies show. They didn't study me anyway.
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> For whatever reason, I am always deeply discouraged when the advocates of talk therapy knock antidepressant medication. I supposed that is a weakness in me, one of a long list. I hate to think the benefits of antidepressants are nothing more than wishful thinking. I know talk therapy is wishful thinking for me. Literally “wishful thinking.”
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> What do you think about this debate?
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