On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. went:
I am a little surprised at the cynicism and skepticism expressed by many of the respondents. I had a sense of an underlying belief that the disorders are perhaps non-existent as well, which I found a bit offensive and insensitive.
I hope my response wasn't among those. As I've posted before, my lifelong depression has been well-controlled by Prozac since 1990 (and I obviously don't care who knows it!). I can't prove that the drug is the effective agent in my case, but that's where I'm placing my bet every 24 hours when I pop that pulvule into my mouth. (In response to an earlier question: why not ECT? Well, the modal side-effect profile is a lot more benign for SSRIs.)
For those people for whom the drugs do work, I believe the enhanced serotonin in the synapse provides an important inhibitory effect.
I stand by my statement that this is just the first event in a long, elaborately branched chain of events, and we don't know which ones really correspond to recovery. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
