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Re: Peter Breggin » 49er

Posted by SLS on November 11, 2009, at 15:10:13

In reply to Re: Peter Breggin » uncouth, posted by 49er on November 11, 2009, at 14:13:23

> You might want to read this article about long term use of antipsychotics causing brain damage:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/health/research/16conv.html?_r=1

What exactly would you like to focus on? Can you post an exerpt of the article that you found salient?

> I have personally suffered cognitive damage from long term use of antidepressants and know people in similar situations.

How did you measure this damage?

I guess you'll know for sure if you have been damaged only once you have discontinued the drugs that you currently identify as the offenders. Otherwise, you might be experiencing an ongoing side effect. Hopefully, it is a side effect that will disappear once your protracted taper period comes to an end.

By the way, how long do you have left until you are medication-free?

How long ago did you begin your tapers? You've been tapering the same drug(s) for many months, right?

> I assure you SLS, it is not due to depression.

Had I addressed you personally? I don't remember challenging you or minimizing your experiences.

> I know the difference and I am frankly getting tired of everything being blamed on depression.

Then perhaps you should study some other subject.

I don't know anyone here who blames all of their ills on depression. However, medicine is just coming to grips with how depression can affect the brain, mind and body, and that there are indeed many physiological processes that are controlled by the brain, autonomic, and neuroendocrine systems that are deranged as a result of the brain dysregulation associated with depression. Depression can even cause blurred vision, dizziness, dry mouth, and constipation as the result of dysautonomia.


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