David Healy speaks the most amount of common sense. Two people close to me had manic episodes after being on ssris for a short while and were then prescribed antipsychotics to manage the new symptoms from the previously undiagnosed mental illness they had. If I know two people I wonder how often this happens in the population and goes unrecognised? My own experience wasnt great eiither , a script for citalopram made me feel awful ,, when i reprted, this the doc doubled the dose . After some weeks I complained about feeling terrible so I was prescribed venlafaxine to add on top .....i tapered off the citalopram with difficulty instead. Now I have a lot of respect for my GP and have no problems with following their advice etc when ill in the past . But mental health ? How can good doctors be getting it so wrong ?
It seems hard to believe that he would not have learned about smoking and concentration in medical school or even come across the subject on his own in textbooks from claims by smokers. The majority who claim this and I was one of them when I used to smoke, they will say that it is very temporary, lasting only about 1 to 3minutes at the most immediately after smoking a cigarette. At best you could read a few pages in a book with exceptionally good concentration, but the ability fades fast. It certainly is not worth the tradeoff since as the psychiatrist said obviously the destruction of the body. Only if there were some extract combination from nicotine, tobacco or both that was relatively harmless could there be justification for manufacturing a drug that assists in concentration abilities. I attended a conference of mental health lawyers in Boston, and they were discussing the problem of the mentally ill who smoke. Their statistics said they smoke more and are more dependent on cigarettes than drug addicts and alcoholics, and the mentally ill are more inclined to smoke a cigarette all the way down to the filter which is more dangerous. I did this also. I think one reason for it is the Anti-Psychotic drugs, and these people suffer not being able to think much less concentrate because of Anti-Psychotics! That can and does cause an additional Psychological addiction to cigarettes seperate from the physical. In the 90s when some hospitals were starting to ban smoking entirely for the Psyche ward patients, I knew one and heard of others who committed suicide on the ward because they would not let them smoke. They were not treated seriously in the way of for example a heroin addict! And Psychiatrists know of course that nicotine gum will not do anything for them during that stage.
David Healy speaks the most amount of common sense.
Two people close to me had manic episodes after being on ssris for a short while and were then prescribed antipsychotics to manage the new symptoms from the previously undiagnosed mental illness they had.
If I know two people I wonder how often this happens in the population and goes unrecognised?
My own experience wasnt great eiither , a script for citalopram made me feel awful ,, when i reprted, this the doc doubled the dose . After some weeks I complained about feeling terrible so I was prescribed venlafaxine to add on top .....i tapered off the citalopram with difficulty instead.
Now I have a lot of respect for my GP and have no problems with following their advice etc when ill in the past .
But mental health ? How can good doctors be getting it so wrong ?
Cos it's pseudoscience.
It's the external environment that concerns me as much as the polluting of our internal environments. Good observation.
It seems hard to believe that he would not have learned about smoking and concentration in medical school or even come across the subject on his own in textbooks from claims by smokers. The majority who claim this and I was one of them when I used to smoke, they will say that it is very temporary, lasting only about 1 to 3minutes at the most immediately after smoking a cigarette. At best you could read a few pages in a book with exceptionally good concentration, but the ability fades fast. It certainly is not worth the tradeoff since as the psychiatrist said obviously the destruction of the body. Only if there were some extract combination from nicotine, tobacco or both that was relatively harmless could there be justification for manufacturing a drug that assists in concentration abilities. I attended a conference of mental health lawyers in Boston, and they were discussing the problem of the mentally ill who smoke. Their statistics said they smoke more and are more dependent on cigarettes than drug addicts and alcoholics, and the mentally ill are more inclined to smoke a cigarette all the way down to the filter which is more dangerous. I did this also. I think one reason for it is the Anti-Psychotic drugs, and these people suffer not being able to think much less concentrate because of Anti-Psychotics! That can and does cause an additional Psychological addiction to cigarettes seperate from the physical. In the 90s when some hospitals were starting to ban smoking entirely for the Psyche ward patients, I knew one and heard of others who committed suicide on the ward because they would not let them smoke. They were not treated seriously in the way of for example a heroin addict! And Psychiatrists know of course that nicotine gum will not do anything for them during that stage.