[lbo-talk] Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

[John Thornton]

What you wrote is accurate enough with the exception of the statement 
below. It is true generally but not absolutely. Depending on the AD about 3 
to 5 percent of patients may begin feeling some effects in as little as 5 
days. My own experience was 6 days in both instances when I "felt" 
something was terribly wrong with this treatment in my case. I quit both 
after less than 10 days. To continue the therapy any longer posed a much 
greater risk than its cessation. The chance of symptom relief was not 
sufficiently high enough to allow the continuation of the therapy when it 
had provoked such severe side effects as immediately as it did.

John Thornton


>it takes a few weeks for ADs to begin helping a patient because they must 
>accumulate in the body -- the liver to be precise.  so, it takes time for 
>symptom relieve and side effects to emerge.
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