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Re: Low avalibility of good meds?

Posted by bleauberry on June 15, 2009, at 17:36:42

In reply to Low avalibility of good meds?, posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on June 15, 2009, at 12:10:44

There are plenty of good drugs. I suspect many of them are not even in the psychiatric handbook.

What is missing is not good drugs, but a good diagnosis. From where is the depression coming from? It's kind of hard to guess at it being serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, or whatever. It might not be any of those and that's why we don't respond to those kinds of meds. It might something as basic and unseen as biotoxins poisoning the brain (Lyme, Candida, others). It might be a lack of bloodflow to the brain. It might be inflammation of the brain. It might be a genetic defect converting tryptophan to serotonin. It might be a pituitary dysfunction which basically orchestrates all the hormones which in turn orchestrate the neurotransmitters.

For a doctor to tell a patient he/she has depression is about as useless as a plumber telling me my washing machine has broke. We need to know WHY so we can fix it. Psychiatry is kind of like duct tape, elmer's glue, epoxy, tin foil on the fuse, and such, not actually fixing the darn thing.

We got good drugs. We just don't know how to figure out which ones to use for what, because we don't know what the what is.


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