Posted by linkadge on December 30, 2010, at 16:56:49
In reply to Re: Anhedonia is wearing me down. » linkadge, posted by rculater on December 30, 2010, at 16:43:19
>Ive given up on SSRIs for the same reason you >describe and can only see MAOIs as a next last >resort option.
Well, I also try not to think of it in the linear fashon that psychiatry presents it as. i.e. SSRI --> TCA --> MAOI --> ECT.
About 5 years ago, one doctor was really pushing for ECT. I said no, I'd like to do a medication washout and see what happens. So I did a month long med washout followed by melatonin monotherapy.
Sure enough, I felt much better than I did - spontanious remission? Who knows. Sometimes the meds make me feel much worse. Psychiatry likes to make all these predictions regarding depression, but the truth of the matter is that depression is very unpredictable and you don't always have to go down the garden path - depression treatment flowchart / algorigthm.
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