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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>wrote:
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>> At 11:56 AM -0500 27/8/09, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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>> Also, now looking back at Shag's original post, it looks like what's
>>> really
>>> at stake is not so much that people are mis-diagnosed as that serotonin
>>> is
>>> seen as the problem for everything? So then the question is whether these
>>> medications work. Right? Isn't that really what it comes down to? And
>>> then
>>> isn't then answer pretty obviously, yes, at least for some things for
>>> some
>>> people -- enough that it's worth it,
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>> Lobotomies worked. You want one?
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> nice snark.
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> the question obviously is whether or not it's worth it. lobotomies clearly
> aren't. as i understand it, shag's question is whether or not SSRIs are.
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> but take another pot-shot at that one, too. I'm curious what form it will
> take.
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the definition of "worked" is the issue there, no?