tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post7359294315589689724..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: What Psychiatry is Coming ToNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-67765854020800736362008-11-09T18:35:00.000-08:002008-11-09T18:35:00.000-08:00What continues to amaze me -- a veteran of a spect...What continues to amaze me -- a veteran of a spectacularly bad Effexor withdrawal, despite having done it with incredible care, in teensy tiny little steps, over the course of six months -- is that people who prescribe drugs of <I> any kind </I> fail to understand the differences between "habit-forming" (as in, whoa, this cocaine high is great and I love it and I never ever want it to stop) and the simple facts of physical withdrawal from <I> anything</I> the body has become accustomed to.<BR/><BR/>I also think there are far too many GPs and other suchlike folks prescribing these drugs, who really don't have a clue as to how they're supposed to work and what impact they can have on people. Is it fair to blame psychiatrists for a GP's error? No, but after having been badly burned "all those prescribing people" get mentally lumped together.David Rochesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084315223515340046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-68844669690913230252008-10-20T01:05:00.000-07:002008-10-20T01:05:00.000-07:00Actually, a psychiatrist's expertise isn't needed ...<I>Actually, a psychiatrist's expertise isn't needed when the SSRI works (a 20-year-old pre-med major could manage SSRI's from a strictly medical point of view). Rather, the hard work of psychiatry begins when the SSRI (or the tenth antidepressant tried) doesn't work, and often this is as much a function of supportive, almost spiritual witness as it is a medical role.</I><BR/><BR/>I think I kind of needed to hear that statement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com