11th April 2004
[QUOTE=isolated one]Why don't you at least be fair and also refer to the evidence confirming the high risk of stroke from combining antidepressants. That's just one of many other confirmed dangers presented on this site. No speculation there. Using only a couple of articles in an attempt to represent an entire site with SEVERAL HUNDRED gives the impression that there could be some prescription drug promotion here.
IsolatedOne, Please let's agree to disagree here. I did a whole lot of reading on that website, and I don't have the energy to take each article and address it individually. Plus, I really didn't see anything there that I hadn't heard before.
I grew up in a home where there were never any prescription drugs and the only med on hand was a bottle of Bayer asprin...and no, this is not a promotion.:) After my siblings and I had completed our baby shots, we never went to a doctor. My parents didn't go to docs either. My father simply believed that people who ran to docs and medicine cabinet were wimps. He ruled. When I grew up & left home, that asprin bottle was half full. I'm only telling this to make the point that I'm not a person that pops pills willy-nilly.
When I first became depressed, I delayed going to my GP for help. And then I delayed starting on Prozac. I have a clear understanding that anything that has the power to help you, also, has the power to hurt you. (and that goes for herbs and asprin, too)
So, as adults we have options. The need to get on w/my life and be functional finally outweighted any reservations I had against meds. I was depressed and it was not going to simply go away on its own or be "wished & hoped" away. I chose the lesser of the 2 evils. I have never regreted that decision.
By the way, I live in the states & I've had 2 GPs that have prescribed ADs to me over the years. Before writing the prescription, each questioned me abt whether or not I have suicidal thoughts, etc. I don't. Each explained why they had to ask those questions. Each explained that people prone to committing suicide can be so depressed that they don't have the initiative to make plans to go thru w/it. The most dangerous time for those individuals is when they first start to feel better via therapy...regardless of whether the therapy is via drugs, Pdoc sofa chats, etc.
BTW, the warning sheet for Prozac that came along w/the samples the doc started me out on was as long as my arm. However, have you ever read the printouts for asprin? I mean Really!:)
IsolatedOne, Please let's agree to disagree here. I did a whole lot of reading on that website, and I don't have the energy to take each article and address it individually. Plus, I really didn't see anything there that I hadn't heard before.
I grew up in a home where there were never any prescription drugs and the only med on hand was a bottle of Bayer asprin...and no, this is not a promotion.:) After my siblings and I had completed our baby shots, we never went to a doctor. My parents didn't go to docs either. My father simply believed that people who ran to docs and medicine cabinet were wimps. He ruled. When I grew up & left home, that asprin bottle was half full. I'm only telling this to make the point that I'm not a person that pops pills willy-nilly.
When I first became depressed, I delayed going to my GP for help. And then I delayed starting on Prozac. I have a clear understanding that anything that has the power to help you, also, has the power to hurt you. (and that goes for herbs and asprin, too)
So, as adults we have options. The need to get on w/my life and be functional finally outweighted any reservations I had against meds. I was depressed and it was not going to simply go away on its own or be "wished & hoped" away. I chose the lesser of the 2 evils. I have never regreted that decision.
By the way, I live in the states & I've had 2 GPs that have prescribed ADs to me over the years. Before writing the prescription, each questioned me abt whether or not I have suicidal thoughts, etc. I don't. Each explained why they had to ask those questions. Each explained that people prone to committing suicide can be so depressed that they don't have the initiative to make plans to go thru w/it. The most dangerous time for those individuals is when they first start to feel better via therapy...regardless of whether the therapy is via drugs, Pdoc sofa chats, etc.
BTW, the warning sheet for Prozac that came along w/the samples the doc started me out on was as long as my arm. However, have you ever read the printouts for asprin? I mean Really!:)