-Caveat Lector-
I don't know about Ritalin. I do know that Prozac has been a godsend for my
wife, who went through a major depression about five years ago. It took
several weeks on Haldol and a month of hospitalization to bring her out of
the depression, and Prozac has kept her from falling back. I'm not saying
that Prozac is any sort of panacea. It's not for everyone. It may work best
for people whose depression is associated with obsessive-compulsive
tendencies, as my wife's was. But it HAS worked for her. She is literally a
different person, and we are both amazed at the way she has emerged from her
depression, almost like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
I *do* have some experience with marijuana, and have to say that it is
pointless to compare it with the psychiatric drugs. The effect, as far I can
tell, is utterly different; they seek different receptors in the brain. The
distinction might be expressed this way: psychoactive drugs change the
brain's activity by *adding* something that was not there before;
psychiatric drugs change the brain's activity by either adding something
that should have been there but wasn't, or by replacing something that was
there but should not have been. That, at least, is my educated layperson's
sense of what's going on.
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> Subject: [CTRL] Pot and Anti-Psychotic Prescription Drugs
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Someone in usenet asked this question and my response turned into
> something that I wanted to share here.
>
> Someone asked:
>
> > Does anyone know what the interactions are between pot and psychiatric
> > drugs, such as Ritalin or Prozac?
>
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