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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Subject: Re: post-Prozac reactions
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:26:15 GMT
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- cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
- >Well, depression is often said to have anger as a component (though the
- >anger is usually turned inward). It seems reasonable to me to suppose that
- >as the drug lifts your depression and you become more extroverted, your
- >anger is directed outside of yourself. (Perhaps at someone who genuinely
- >makes you angry, perhaps at an inappropriate target.) This is only a guess,
- >of course.
-
- Wasn't it. I nearly blew up. It *felt* like a chemical flood, much in
- the same way that a panic attack does. I had the latter awhile later in
- response to the prozac, and it *definitely* wasn't something internalized
- coming out -- I even felt uncomfortably stoned... the anger (more like
- rage) had a similar feel to it. It was detatched from "me" and felt
- chemical... its kinda hard to explain without experiencing it...
-
- And Prozac didn't lift my "depression", so that couldn't have been it no
- matter what...
-
- All I'd do is caution people about Prozac, and suggest that if they're
- feeling psychiatrically weird on it, to switch to a different SSRI like
- Zoloft... (which pretty much is advice that goes for any of these drugs...).
-
- >>Nortryptyline didn't do anything like this, Wellbutrin didn't do anything
- >>like this...
- >
- >Did they work as well? If so, why not switch back if Prozac causes
- >problems?
-
- None of the above works. Only phenelzine works, and only 50%...
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
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