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What do we know about the success rate of psychotropic drug therapies?
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 575955" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>I took Cymbalta for a couple of years, and it saved me from a deep dark hole. I took Prozac for a couple years before that, but it stopped working for me. I didn't have any noticeable side effects from the Cymbalta except when I skipped doses... then I had some pretty horrible headaches, shakiness, and nightmares. When I finally went off it for good, I tapered off slowly. It certainly didn't give me mania, heck I may have welcomed that lol. I haven't needed it in several years now.</p><p></p><p>Anti-depressants do sometimes cause mania when given to bipolar patients, in fact that's how Youngest was first diagnosed as bipolar (Zoloft had her doing incessant cartwheels around the house). I've been told that in bipolar patients they should never be given alone, always with a mood stabilizer. I'm also a believer that no psychiatric medication should be taken unless someone is also in therapy -- but that's just my own opinion. medications are to get you to a point where you can participate in therapy appropriately -- you still have to be able to address the underlying issues. medications shouldn't be looked at as a "cure." </p><p> </p><p>As with any medication, it's a matter of weighing the risks. I don't know where I would have ended up without anti-depressants. Or where my kids would have ended up. I know what Youngest is like with and without her mood stabilizers. I can tell you that it's night and day. I'm grateful she's finally taking them regularly, even if it was the epilepsy that first convinced her to do so (same medications help her seizures).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 575955, member: 1157"] I took Cymbalta for a couple of years, and it saved me from a deep dark hole. I took Prozac for a couple years before that, but it stopped working for me. I didn't have any noticeable side effects from the Cymbalta except when I skipped doses... then I had some pretty horrible headaches, shakiness, and nightmares. When I finally went off it for good, I tapered off slowly. It certainly didn't give me mania, heck I may have welcomed that lol. I haven't needed it in several years now. Anti-depressants do sometimes cause mania when given to bipolar patients, in fact that's how Youngest was first diagnosed as bipolar (Zoloft had her doing incessant cartwheels around the house). I've been told that in bipolar patients they should never be given alone, always with a mood stabilizer. I'm also a believer that no psychiatric medication should be taken unless someone is also in therapy -- but that's just my own opinion. medications are to get you to a point where you can participate in therapy appropriately -- you still have to be able to address the underlying issues. medications shouldn't be looked at as a "cure." As with any medication, it's a matter of weighing the risks. I don't know where I would have ended up without anti-depressants. Or where my kids would have ended up. I know what Youngest is like with and without her mood stabilizers. I can tell you that it's night and day. I'm grateful she's finally taking them regularly, even if it was the epilepsy that first convinced her to do so (same medications help her seizures). [/QUOTE]
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