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Aswad -> RE: Falling off the edge of love. (7/30/2007 7:50:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Absolutely, Aswad, but let's consider the fact that the pharmaceutical companies have developed enormous capacities for addresssing the ills of modern life. Their medication response is based on ad-hoc basis whereby they seem to offer a cure to something I think is uncurable...
I've disputed the "uncurable" assertion in another current thread, so I'll spare you the reiteration. In fact, a lot of what I have to say, several pages of it, is in that thread, so why don't I just say that this link takes you to page 1 and that the interesting stuff is mostly on pages 1 and 2, IIRC? No need for me to copyspam here.
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It's patchwork. Their stuff's nothing better than sticking a tiny plaster on a gaping wound.
Err... not so. But a lot of docs have a habit of sticking tiny plasters on gaping wonds.
In fact, around here, they sometimes do that to physical injuries in the public medical ward.
Doesn't change the fact that proper bandages, operating rooms, etc. are available.
Again, I've critiqued the system (good and bad) enough elsewhere.
If you have a gaping wound, you'd usually start out with trauma care in the ER. Transferring this to the psychiatric domain, that may mean ECT, or heavy duty drugs. Usually, at least if the doc has experience with it, this means pulling out the older drugs, the ones they made back in the 60's and still make so the hospitals don't have to synthesize them on their own (which they would, if production stopped). Stuff like tranylcypromine, phenelzine, isocarbaxozid, nomifensine, methamphetamine, opioids, and so forth. The ones no healthy person should touch, in short.
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Yet it's not innocuous!
Neither is depression.
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Like you and I and many others know, it covers up the essential aspects of the human experience.
Depends on the drugs.
One particular cocktail, which I couldn't stay on for various reasons, showed me what it meant to be human again, what it meant to have a soul, and to be me, or even have the concept "me", and it gave me the hope that I could eventually become a human being again.
SSRIs, however, have been nothing but trouble for me, though I know some find them useful.
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I am starting to think these drugs take away a lot of our impetus for living our lives.
Again, depends on the type. SSRIs do. They're designed to, in a way. Three brain systems are involved in this, but I won't bore you with the details. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, however.
Amineptine, for instance, will tend to give you your motivation back.
MAOIs do much the same, and the old ones are robust mood elevators.
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I like being in love, and I like what it does to me.
No doubt. Quick chemistry lesson:
Alpha-Methyl-PHenEThylAMINE is our internal love drug, with a methyl tagged on.
Their actions are strongly related.
Amphetamine is what is known as a homologue of that love drug.
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The rush, adrenaline and earth-shattering orgasmic capacity are treasures in my mind.
That's what we call a "high".
But, yes, an enjoyable experience.
I've never had it internally induced, though.
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We spoke about it before, but it's hard finding a quack that'll be humble and ready to experiment with less orthodox medication.
Talk to a university hospital. They might be more inclined to try such things.
I'd certainly like to see whether Ganesha can have a sustainable therapeutic effect. [:D]
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