Posted by Sparkboy on March 4, 2002, at 23:16:57
In reply to Re: Atypical Depression - Sparkboy, posted by Automated Lady on March 4, 2002, at 7:31:30
> It's interesting what you said about Parnate because when I was in my mid-teens I discovered speed and it was my lifeline for about four years (until it all went horribly wrong..) but it was like it made me normal.
I never thought of anything like that in high school--way too social phobic, and just plain phobic. As far as speed, you must mean meth. I wonder how different that is from Dexedrine. I once had low dose Dexedrine prescribed as augmentation for Zoloft. I got very little of the expected lift, and after a couple of days got a real sour irritability. I've never had euphoriant feelings from any drug, and very little of the pleasantness from ordinary things like caffeine and alcohol, and so I've not been a substance abuser. When my Parnate was working, though, I drank a cup of coffee and finally realized why people like that stuff so much, other than taste. I think Parnate actually corrected the problem while it worked. I had high hopes for the dopamine re-uptake inhibitor amineptine, but it was banned in Europe, due to drug war idiocy. It helped people with retarded, anhedonic type depressions where nothing else would. Biopsychiatry.com talks about it under the section titled "the dopamine connection."
--John
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