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What do we know about the success rate of psychotropic drug therapies?
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterby" data-source="post: 575991" data-attributes="member: 7083"><p>Antidepressants can cause mania in people with bipolar disorder (it's very rare to cause it in people who are not bipolar). Many people who have bipolar disorder either start with a depressive episode and the mania/hypomania hasn't presented yet, or they don't seek help when they are hypomanic because when one is hypomanic s/he feels pretty great.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't say that antidepressants saved my life, but they definitely increased my quality of life. I resisted for a very long time, but after I started and got the right medication for me I kicked myself hard for waiting so long. The change was hugely dramatic. Then that medication stopped working for me and I didn't want to play the medication merry-go-round again. So, I went several years without AD's and was miserable. I started again and again kicked myself for waiting so long. </p><p></p><p>However, medications alone is not advised. While some - like me - will more than likely have to take an AD for the rest of their lives, the gold standard treatment for depression is medications AND therapy, preferably CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). </p><p></p><p>For the record, I have been on or tried several different AD's and I haven't suffered any hair loss, weight gain was negligible, no bowel or kidney problems beyond what I already had prior to AD's, or anything else. Any medication you take has a risk of side effects. You have to weigh the risk against the benefit. And you have to understand that there is no way of knowing which medication will work for what person - trial and error is the only way. (And that isn't just the case with psychiatric medications, by the way. There has been trial and error with my cholesterol medications, my heart medications, and my stomach medications.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterby, post: 575991, member: 7083"] Antidepressants can cause mania in people with bipolar disorder (it's very rare to cause it in people who are not bipolar). Many people who have bipolar disorder either start with a depressive episode and the mania/hypomania hasn't presented yet, or they don't seek help when they are hypomanic because when one is hypomanic s/he feels pretty great. I wouldn't say that antidepressants saved my life, but they definitely increased my quality of life. I resisted for a very long time, but after I started and got the right medication for me I kicked myself hard for waiting so long. The change was hugely dramatic. Then that medication stopped working for me and I didn't want to play the medication merry-go-round again. So, I went several years without AD's and was miserable. I started again and again kicked myself for waiting so long. However, medications alone is not advised. While some - like me - will more than likely have to take an AD for the rest of their lives, the gold standard treatment for depression is medications AND therapy, preferably CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). For the record, I have been on or tried several different AD's and I haven't suffered any hair loss, weight gain was negligible, no bowel or kidney problems beyond what I already had prior to AD's, or anything else. Any medication you take has a risk of side effects. You have to weigh the risk against the benefit. And you have to understand that there is no way of knowing which medication will work for what person - trial and error is the only way. (And that isn't just the case with psychiatric medications, by the way. There has been trial and error with my cholesterol medications, my heart medications, and my stomach medications.) [/QUOTE]
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