Re:Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt...
by joe_the_user on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:52PM
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Well,
What you are ultimately saying that drug X made the person's existence possible under the current circumstances and given the current options.
My anecdotal evidence is a friend who went for years working a night shift and playing RPGs during the day, wracking a massive sleep deficit and engaging in other irresponsible behavior. Antidepressants made his existence possible. Until they finally stopped working and he reached full psychological disability.
It is extremely difficult to say this means. My reflex is to give the "folk psychology" explanation that he'd pushed away the "real problem" for so long that when it "caught up to him", he couldn't deal with it. But it could just as well be the chemicals gave him a few more years.
Now if I suspect, chemicals or not, if he'd had job/leisure activity combo that satisfied him more and didn't produce sleep deficits, he would have at least lasted longer.
What you are ultimately saying that drug X made the person's existence possible under the current circumstances and given the current options.
My anecdotal evidence is a friend who went for years working a night shift and playing RPGs during the day, wracking a massive sleep deficit and engaging in other irresponsible behavior. Antidepressants made his existence possible. Until they finally stopped working and he reached full psychological disability.
It is extremely difficult to say this means. My reflex is to give the "folk psychology" explanation that he'd pushed away the "real problem" for so long that when it "caught up to him", he couldn't deal with it. But it could just as well be the chemicals gave him a few more years.
Now if I suspect, chemicals or not, if he'd had job/leisure activity combo that satisfied him more and didn't produce sleep deficits, he would have at least lasted longer.