Comments on: Why People Stop Taking Anti-Depressants: Part 2 http://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Georgehttp://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-551823 George Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:02:17 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-551823 This article is quite heavy on the "we KNOW what is best for you" line of thinking. I have seen instances where it is not the case that a general practitioner knows best. Doctors have a proven tendency to prescribe what the pharmaceutical reps recommend. The automatic presumption that the patient is ignorant and the physician is above reproach is not helpful to some us. In fact, we resist it. The insistence that the drug need be taken longer to have an effect gets wearisome after six months. When you tell your doctor that the medicine makes you feel rubber coated, and that it only masks the depression, and the doctor’s reply is to up the dosage; this makes me mistrust my doctor.In my case, no doctor recognized depression in me until I was fifty years old. I’d say that was long enough to reinforce a few negative thought patterns. Still, Lithium seems to work for me. Not 100% cure by any means. But it improves function and livability without all the crazy side effects of the drugs the pharmaceutical keep pushing my GP to prescribe. This article is quite heavy on the “we KNOW what is best for you” line of thinking. I have seen instances where it is not the case that a general practitioner knows best. Doctors have a proven tendency to prescribe what the pharmaceutical reps recommend. The automatic presumption that the patient is ignorant and the physician is above reproach is not helpful to some us. In fact, we resist it. The insistence that the drug need be taken longer to have an effect gets wearisome after six months. When you tell your doctor that the medicine makes you feel rubber coated, and that it only masks the depression, and the doctor’s reply is to up the dosage; this makes me mistrust my doctor.

In my case, no doctor recognized depression in me until I was fifty years old. I’d say that was long enough to reinforce a few negative thought patterns. Still, Lithium seems to work for me. Not 100% cure by any means. But it improves function and livability without all the crazy side effects of the drugs the pharmaceutical keep pushing my GP to prescribe.

]]> By: Drugs and Pharmacology, Sixth Edition | GNIF Brain Bloggerhttp://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-133365 Drugs and Pharmacology, Sixth Edition | GNIF Brain Blogger Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:24:50 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-133365 [...] R. White presents “Why People Stop Taking Anti-Depressants” Part 1, 2, and 3 posted at GNIF Brain [...] [...] R. White presents “Why People Stop Taking Anti-Depressants” Part 1, 2, and 3 posted at GNIF Brain [...]

]]> By: Another Whohttp://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-119316 Another Who Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:58:22 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/2008/03/20/a-subtle-reason-some-people-stop-taking-anti-depressants-2/#comment-119316 This is the most unscientific description of depression I have ever seen. This is the most unscientific description of depression I have ever seen.

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