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Switching SSRIs
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD) , bipolar disorder , dementia , electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) , learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) , panic , personality disorders, phobias , post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , schizophrenia , stress , transitions, and work problems.
Switching SSRIs
by Torreja, Sep 20, 2005 12:00AM
I have been switching SSRIs from Paxil CR, to regular paxil, to Zoloft and now i am on Lexapro. There has been about a month in between each. The reason for the switch is that i cannot take the headache these cause. I was once doing pretty good on Paxil but not anymore. My question is, when will i feel better? I have been on Lexapro for almost two weeks and although i do not experience withdrawal per se i wonder if whatever therapeutic good i obtained from zoloft will carry on to Lexapro or will i need to again start counting from the first day i took Lexapro? I read that most SSRIS take about 2-4 weeks to be effective, but what when you have been on one or another over the past 4 months?
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Sep 21, 2005 12:00AM
, Sep 21, 2005 12:00AM
The month lapse in between is what causes you to start allover again from the beginning each time.. There may be a residual effect from the last round, but you can't count on it because all the medication has been out of your system for weeks.
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by Al Galves, PhD
With the hunger strike, MindFreedom threw down the gauntlet to biopsychiatry. The hunger strikers said, “Please provide us with scientific evidence that mental disorders are biologically based brain diseases. Prove that psychotropic drugs correct chemical imbalances in the brain. We are not going to eat solid food until we get evidence that meets the conventional standards of scientific truth.”
After a back and forth exchange of letters between the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the MindFreedom Scientific Panel, the APA issued a news release to defend themselves from the hunger strikers. The APA was forced to admit,
“[B]rain science has not advanced to the point where scientists or clinicians can point to readily discernible pathologic lesions or genetic abnormalities that in and of themselves serve as reliable or predictive biomarkers of a given mental disorder or mental disorders as a group.”
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