On May 25, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> This is a reasonable hypothesis held I believe by some but not all psychiatrists/neuroscientists. But there is no real or dependable knowledge on any form of mental illness. In the past, and perhaps still, some psychiatrists suggested that there is no such thing as depression, there are only bipolar patients who have never had a manic episode. In any case, the current typology of mental illness almost certainly will change. No current diagnosis is much more than an educated guess.
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> Until something bettger comes along, SSRIs, vicious as they are in some ways, are probably a useful placebo that helps many to trudge along with their lives.
It's really sad that you've spent much of your life dismissing something that might have made you less miserable.
"Their complaints are really 'plaints' in the old sense," as the man said.
Doug