[lbo-talk] The epidemic of mental illness

[shag carpet bomb]

I was curious because the review mentioned a study that help spur
along some of the changes in thinking about these drugs. They've been
showing that, although the studies use double-blind studies, since the
doctors tell patients about possible side-effects, what happened was
that patients, who ostensibly didn't know whether they got the drug or
the placebo, would figure that they got the placebo if they
experienced a side effect(s). The researchers, IIRC, are suggesting
that people believed that they had the drug so believed that they got
better.

Now that they are using what they call, IIRC, active placebos -
placebos that create a benign side effect - they are getting more
accurate results.

This isn't to say the drug didn't help you, just curious. Frankly, my
feeling is: if the drug helped you merely because you thought it would
help you, then great. Where I get distrubed is with the information
that was also in that review: that these drugs are changing the
structure of people's brains - and not in a good way. I'm waiting for
the second part of the review because the reviewer intimates that at
least one book under discussion is a little overwrought.
> Hi,
>
> Ummmm...well very, very subtle strangeness in the first few weeks. If
> I
> moved my head quickly, it was like my sense of body placement followed
> an
> almost imperceptibly short time later (that is only a bastardized
> explanation of the feeling) a bit of that and if I forget to take it
> for a
> day, I notice it because of this and also a not-really-headache but a
> strange feeling in my head...or a subtle twitch in my calves...then I
> go
> "oh..did I take my pill?" and remember...but all quite subtle...
>
> Other than that, thankfully no. Those small oddities are a hell of a
> lot
> better than before I was taking it when I didn't eat anything but
> toast for
> weeks at a time, lost 15 kilo, had shakes and tense muscles, constant
> panic
> feelings and terrible visceral repetitions of imagining my family
> burning to
> death in the car accident (which I still have now and again, but
> thankfully
> are usually less immediate and intense...and can be cut by taking a
> Xanax)...ah...the joys of life :-(
>
> Bryan
>
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> out of curiosity, did you have side effects?
>
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