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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
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- Subject: Re: post-Prozac reactions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.151622.2479@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:16:22 GMT
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- mdkline@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mark D. Kline) writes:
- >People struggle to find explanations for behaviors and feelings which
- >seem out of character -- e.g., bursts of irritability, lapses in
- >judgment, increased need for reassurance, as well as physical
- >symptoms -- which arise during periods of stress or in the context of a
- >depressive illness. It is always something - if it's not Prozac, it's
- >PMS, it's not running enough, eating too much, or too little, or too
- >much or too little of this or that. Sometimes these explanatory models
- >are right, or may be right, and sometimes they are very flakey.
- >Sometimes people overlook the writing on the wall and round up the
- >usual suspects, so to speak. "The Prozac made me do it." Well, problem
- >is, many people feel suicidal or homocidal who aren't taking Prozac.
- >Large numbers of people taking Prozac don't seem to be any more violent
- >or suicidal than large numbers of people taking other antidepressant
- >medications.
-
- Drugs typically have distinctive characterstics vs. genuine psychological
- feelings. Try using enough psychoactives so that you get an really good
- feel for the boundary between your psychological mind and your genuine
- feelings, and your biochemical brain and drug experiences. You get to the
- point where you are very sensitive to the difference.
-
- Also, you seem to have about as much of a concept of what I mean by
- "out of character" as most people who have never had it before think of
- "clinical depression". If you haven't experienced it, you just don't
- really understand...
-
- And Prozac didn't make me do a damn thing. The feeling hit, and my mind
- automatically went into its "we're on a drug, just sit tight and let this
- feeling go away" mode -- same thing I do if LSD starts going weird. If it
- wasn't the Prozac, then its the only time I've ever gone into this state
- while down at a complete baseline.
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
-