Posted on 09/18/2013 6:03:26 PM PDT by Captain7seas
Drugs plus, as the Wall Street Journal reported, “hardcore alcohol use.”
Chemicals pile up in the brain and they’re so common and ordinary and widely used that nobody bothers to add or subtract to estimate the overall effect.
Here’s one overall effect.
as compared to Ambien which I take about 3x a week, Trazadone is supposed to be non addicting and a better drug for sleep....
I have been on that drug for years due to fibromyalgia and costochondritis. A few years ago I quit taking it cold turkey. The only effect that had was that I wanted to cry all the time. When I told a friend who was a psychologist, he let me know very quickly that was a very bad idea. I am the odd one though. I never get the common side effects, it is the one that bothers less than 5%.
Nope we just need more gun control according the liberals. The fact that years ago when most people had firearms and seriously mentally ill people were locked up shootings like this did not occur but rarely. Now that we regulate firearms and allow seriously ill people to determine their own freedom/treatment we frequently have mass shootings. (I acknowledge conditions mental patients were kept in were deplorable and if done again things would have to be different)
Newer studies are showing these little ‘money makers’ aren’t very effective at treating depression either.
“We don’t know enough to be mucking with brain chemistry...” quoting an old professor of mine...
Yeah evil was definitely in the mix, it surrounded him, but Trazodone, not so much.
Tell me about the mass murderer - ONE person gunning down a bunch of innocents... A name?
I have been on the drug for years and I have had none of those. It could be the type of personality a person has. I am very easy going.
Tell me about the mass murderer - ONE person gunning down a bunch of innocents... A name?
Murder has been with us since Cain and Able... that’s not what I’m talking about...
I know the feeling and, in fact, am going through the exact same thing myself. I am down to the last class of drugs for a particular condition (the others having pooped out) and the drugs in this class have the worst and most common side effects (especially discontinuation-related). So on alternate days I either am or am not going to start the new drug. But I really need to -- the drug is treating a real condition that is screwing up my life.
Honestly, if you put ten normal health care peeps in a room, at least seven would call it a tri-cyclic. It all goes in the “makes you tired, not a controlled substance, at least its on the $4 list” category. That’s about as involved as anyone gets with trazodone.
All kinds of misinformation on this thread!
“I read it on the Internet, so it must be true!”
Big Pharma’s Fault.
Big Pharma contributed to Bush’s campaign?
Conclusion:
BUSH’S FAULT!
Trazadone is not an SSRI, it is a very old tetracyclic antidepressant. Frequently used for sleep. I have taken it and didn’t feel the need to do violence nor did evil thoughts creep into my brain.
It’s much better for me. I’ve always had sleep problems like night terrors and sleepwalking and the Trazodone does the trick. Now my husband can get some sleep too.
I don't know about that. None are efficacious say like opiates for pain, but...they often do help. This is a presentation I bookmarked last night:
Look at the duloxetine efficacy chart vs. placebo
February, 2013 article
Venlafaxine and Duloxetine: A Comparison of Efficacy and Tolerability for the. Treatment of Depression in Elderly Patients. Jonathan Potter, MS, PharmD ...
http://www.nova.edu/gec/igs14/forms/presentations/venlafaxine-and-duloxetine-comparison.pdf
so many of the other mass shooters have been those who HAD BEEN taking anti depressants.....
Starting with the columbine punks
I remember hearing the author going into detail about this an a radio program several years ago.
Lord have mercy.
Washington NAVEL yard?
Didn’t know that DC had a bellybutton.
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