On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Kristyne McDaniel wrote:
> Back when I was originally treated for mental stress and depression
> (91/92),
> a psychiatrist that used a combination of talk and medical therapy
> treated
> me successfully with a medication that I later found out was used
> for people
> with a panic disorder and not so much for depression.
FWIW, panic disorder, anxiety and depression seem to be part of a
spectrum of manifestations of the same underlying problem. Why
individuals express their symptoms differently is still not
understood at all.
> I do hear what you are saying about how the drugs are carefully
> created. My
> point is that I don't think they are necessarily carefully prescribed.
OK, I'd agree with that. But I think that that's true of all
medicine: not all doctors are good at what they do. When I began
having severe stomach problems in the early '90s, I went to several
gastroenterologists, all of whom were experienced, and three of them
mis-diagnosed me before I found one who recognized the rare condition
that I had. The others had me go through all these tests and give up
all sorts of foods (caffeine? garlic? why not just kill me now?), but
of course none of it helped, and I got worse. I'm glad I didn't treat
any of those first docs as all-knowing, because I'd probably have
gotten a lot worse if I had kept doing what they said.
-- Ed Leafe
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