Posted by sabre on October 21, 2004, at 0:36:10
In reply to Re: double double quotes » sabre, posted by Dr. Bob on October 20, 2004, at 20:19:03
Testing, testing....."Listening to Prozac"
Thanks Bob.The thing I like about books like these is that it's as though there is someone talking to you about real people. Well, maybe a theoretical conglomerate of a person. Usually you can identify with one (or a few) of them. These patients always seem to get the right dose and after a little side effect adversity they win through. Maybe it's a substitute for me for Mills and Boon (sorry, no double quotes here) or fantasy literature.
They sure beat the hard core scientific studies. I reckon they round up that same mob of people every study and after subjecting them to the latest ssri/nari/maoiabcdefg... and inevitably curing soc phobes, GADS, depressives etc they then use that inevitable blurb 'drug x is a safe, tolerable and effective drug for ailment y'...blah, blah....blahhhhhhhhhh. Do the drug companies insist they use this sentence or does it come with the free samples?
I have been looking into the effect of ssris on exercise performance. I'm sure they also use and reuse the same bunch of healthy males. The acute dosage for experimental purposes is a single dose and chronic is 2 weeks. Which doesn't seem long enough?
In addition, they never bother with mental defectives...those who might be more inclined to be using them regularly.
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