Posted by morgan miller on July 15, 2011, at 10:45:12
In reply to Re: Feeling terrible on citalopram - need advice., posted by linkadge on July 14, 2011, at 17:36:03
> >Still, you're basically saying that you don't >believe they are very effective, not that they >are not very effective for you.
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> Yes, and thats what I believe. Nobody has to believe what I believe.
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> LinkadgeI respect your belief, I really do, I just wonder if your basing it on all the right information available. I don't see how people could notice such obvious external reactions like dialated pupils and head tingling, and then notice such drastic improvements after a few weeks, with improvements lasting for years without any major episodes, with the conclusion being that SSRIs are simply not effective. I'm guess your belief might be based on the fact that you feel like SSRIs provide an artificial feeling, and because of this they are not truly effective at providing what we really need. I agree this can be the case with many. I'm going off reports of not caring about certain thing and doing irresponsible things that normally would not have been done off SSRIs. Then there are many people that do well for a long time, stay driven, take care of responsibility, still feel healthy anxiety(necessary for protecting ourselves), and maintain the ability to maintain healthy emotion connectivity and experience a healthy range of emotions.
Have you considered the possibility that there are many people out there that do not take any medication and never have, including SSRIs, that have always felt very similar to people that end up doing well on SSRIs for a long time? Do you think it's possible that some people have grown so accustomed to feeling such deep pain and such an extreme range of emotional states, that feeling somewhat "normal" or more like the majority of the population has become undesirable? I'm wondering if this could get in the way of treatment for many people. I'm not specifically talking about you. This is a concept I have considered a possibility of existing within myself, and others who have suffered for several years at a time.
Morgan
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