[thechat] O Brother, drugs, movies, and hats

[Martin]

Erika Meyer wrote on 24/10/01 6:47 pm

>I think if a person is depressed to the point of being suicidal or 
>complete lack of functioning, an antidepressant is probably a very 
>good idea.

One of the more important bits to that is "and unable to get out
of it". I'm reading a book on Psychopharmacology (written
for non-brain-surgeons like me) which has a good chapter
on the different types of depression, and how each is treatable
by different types of of anti-depressants.

I didn't realise that Valium & Prozac treat different conditions
and they're not interchangeable (yes, I do know there are other issues 
with them)

Cheers
Martin

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