Comments on: Prozac and Depression http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression Sat, 08 May 2010 20:54:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: legend1617 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2352 legend1617 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:49 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2352 <b>o im scared ...</b> <br> o im scared now i was on 2 prozac pills a day and the docs switched it to 1 prozac and one efferexin and 1 aderax to help me sleep at night. o im scared …
o im scared now i was on 2 prozac pills a day and the docs switched it to 1 prozac and one efferexin and 1 aderax to help me sleep at night.

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2353 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:49 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2353 <b>No. And as I have ...</b> <br> No. And as I have educated myself over this chemical imbalance debate, I have also found that psychiatry has a lot to answer for. I could go into exhaustive detail as to why I decided neuroleptic drugs are no good, but that would be too long a story. I suggest you read up on Szasz, especially his "The myth of mental illness", which is still timely in its insights. No. And as I have …
No. And as I have educated myself over this chemical imbalance debate, I have also found that psychiatry has a lot to answer for. I could go into exhaustive detail as to why I decided neuroleptic drugs are no good, but that would be too long a story. I suggest you read up on Szasz, especially his “The myth of mental illness”, which is still timely in its insights.

]]> By: neil9327 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2351 neil9327 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:48 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2351 <b>Nonsense. ...</b> <br> Nonsense. Scientific researchers have done scans of the brain of depressed individuals and found reduced brain activity - a physical characteristic. Since serotonin is responsible for communication between neurons in the brain, the role of SSRI antidepressants is clear in that they have the effect of increasing the amount of serotonin in the right places, and this has the effect of increasing the communication between brain cells - this effect can be seen in brain scans. Nonsense. …
Nonsense. Scientific researchers have done scans of the brain of depressed individuals and found reduced brain activity – a physical characteristic. Since serotonin is responsible for communication between neurons in the brain, the role of SSRI antidepressants is clear in that they have the effect of increasing the amount of serotonin in the right places, and this has the effect of increasing the communication between brain cells – this effect can be seen in brain scans.

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2349 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:47 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2349 <b>And now, you have ...</b> <br> And now, you have the potential of compounded side effects, which then, might necessitate the introduction of other drugs. Such is the cascading effects of polypharmacalogical interventions. The big pharmas will love you. And now, you have …
And now, you have the potential of compounded side effects, which then, might necessitate the introduction of other drugs. Such is the cascading effects of polypharmacalogical interventions. The big pharmas will love you.

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2350 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:47 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2350 <b>Those findings are ...</b> <br> Those findings are inconclusive, flawed, and given the state of the science, do not prove anything. BTW, you are arguing two incompatible sides to your gospel: from a gross anatomical and cell level argument, simultaneously. Any study would call this a confounded study. Again, the science is still speculative, but what would I know, I only have post graduate work in neuroscience. Those findings are …
Those findings are inconclusive, flawed, and given the state of the science, do not prove anything. BTW, you are arguing two incompatible sides to your gospel: from a gross anatomical and cell level argument, simultaneously. Any study would call this a confounded study. Again, the science is still speculative, but what would I know, I only have post graduate work in neuroscience.

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2348 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:45 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2348 <b>Read my reply. ...</b> <br> Read my reply. Brain scan studies have also been done to "prove" that individuals with ADD have discernible and pronounced irregularities in glucose uptake in their prefrontal lobe areas(as per use of radioactively tagged glucose). If you do some digging, as I have-both at university and through peer research-you will find that these studies were also flawed. Google this, and you will see that CT scans, and the like, are not conclusive, and only point to metabolic shifts, not behaviour. Read my reply. …
Read my reply. Brain scan studies have also been done to “prove” that individuals with ADD have discernible and pronounced irregularities in glucose uptake in their prefrontal lobe areas(as per use of radioactively tagged glucose). If you do some digging, as I have-both at university and through peer research-you will find that these studies were also flawed. Google this, and you will see that CT scans, and the like, are not conclusive, and only point to metabolic shifts, not behaviour.

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2347 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:44 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2347 <b>Sorry, but the ...</b> <br> Sorry, but the scans are at a macroanatomical level and say nothing about how behaviours are manifested. I can have trouble with dealing with the way my life has turned out, be poor, and loveless, and show "colour" changes through CT scanning. This does not mean I have a diseased brain, as psychiatrists and pharmaceuticals would like me to believe. Depression is not a disease, and treated as such, shows little responsiveness to many individuals. Placebo effect and caring for one can ammeiliorate Sorry, but the …
Sorry, but the scans are at a macroanatomical level and say nothing about how behaviours are manifested. I can have trouble with dealing with the way my life has turned out, be poor, and loveless, and show “colour” changes through CT scanning. This does not mean I have a diseased brain, as psychiatrists and pharmaceuticals would like me to believe. Depression is not a disease, and treated as such, shows little responsiveness to many individuals. Placebo effect and caring for one can ammeiliorate

]]> By: neil9327 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2346 neil9327 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:43 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2346 <b>Well I am no expert ...</b> <br> Well I am no expert, and if you have studied it at university and after then you clearly know quite a lot. All I can say is that in my experience antidepressants work and work well, and other treatments such as CBT or "shaking yourself out of it" or "thinking about something else" do not. Antidepressants have given me my life back. Can you suggest an alternative treatment for the condition that I could try out? I'm open to ideas of course. How about Magneto cranial stimulation? Well I am no expert …
Well I am no expert, and if you have studied it at university and after then you clearly know quite a lot.
All I can say is that in my experience antidepressants work and work well, and other treatments such as CBT or “shaking yourself out of it” or “thinking about something else” do not.
Antidepressants have given me my life back.

Can you suggest an alternative treatment for the condition that I could try out? I’m open to ideas of course.
How about Magneto cranial stimulation?

]]> By: whiff1962 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2345 whiff1962 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:42 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2345 <b>That would be ...</b> <br> That would be Transcranial stimulation. There have also been procedures with Vagus nerve stimulation(VNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS), both done to real no effect, but neurosurgeons(vascular surgeons for VNS, as it involves the carotid sheath, a potentially risky procedure) don't balk at such procedures, as they are very lucrative. Usually the patient is left with having to remain on drugs, as these devises don't do anything clinically significant, but in limited cases of Parkinsons. That would be …
That would be Transcranial stimulation. There have also been procedures with Vagus nerve stimulation(VNS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS), both done to real no effect, but neurosurgeons(vascular surgeons for VNS, as it involves the carotid sheath, a potentially risky procedure) don’t balk at such procedures, as they are very lucrative. Usually the patient is left with having to remain on drugs, as these devises don’t do anything clinically significant, but in limited cases of Parkinsons.

]]> By: neil9327 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression/comment-page-1#comment-2343 neil9327 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:41 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/medical-publication/prozac-and-depression#comment-2343 <b>Yes Transcranial ...</b> <br> Yes Transcranial stimulation is the treatment. You don't have to be a doctor to post a treatment option here on youtube :-) but I do think that the best option for me is to continue the antidepressants I am taking. They work well with no problems. Yes Transcranial …
Yes Transcranial stimulation is the treatment.

You don’t have to be a doctor to post a treatment option here on youtube :-) but I do think that the best option for me is to continue the antidepressants I am taking. They work well with no problems.

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