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Mumsnet Discussions: Media / non-member requests : Antidepressants - did they work for you? (8 messages)
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Contact mumsnet about this post From MEDIA: the guardian placed on Tue 26-Feb-08 13:05:49
Antidepressants - did they work for you?

I wonder if anyone has positive or negative experiences about being prescribed SSRIs - seroxat, prozac, and the like - and would be willing to talk to the guardian today about it.
can be anonymous of course, would take 20 mins or so on the phone.
it's in response to the news reports today that studies show these drugs to be clinically useless, only working, if at all, thanks to a placebo effect. does this match your experience? or perhaps you disagree.
if you'd be willing to talk i'd be delighted, please email me directly at esther.addley(AT)guardian.co.uk
many thanks
esther



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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By sazb on Wed 27-Feb-08 17:08:59
yes my email is sarahbriggs@talktalk.net
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Dior on Wed 27-Feb-08 17:10:26
I would be willing to discuss this. I have taken most of the range of ADs and found them useless, but Prozac is really helping me. I will email you.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By saltire on Wed 27-Feb-08 17:18:28
I took seroxat, and prozac and one called something beginning with L, and they were all horrible. I was taking them for PND. Then I went onto the older type of ADs, dothiepin, and it was great, really helped me
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By MyEye on Wed 27-Feb-08 17:26:33
Was it Lustral, Saltire? (PND was bad enough, but a few days on Lustral made it even worse: non-stop anxiety/panic attacks. I sort of shut down for a few days, could hardly speak or function, until I was persuaded to stop the tabs. Terrifying. Was that your experience?)

I also got well with help from dothiepin. Top drug.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By NAB3wishesfor2008 on Wed 27-Feb-08 17:27:36
I have had 2 different ADs and when the GP took me off them I really knew I needed them.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By saltire on Thu 28-Feb-08 09:39:29
Myeye - that was it, Lustral. I was hallucinating, panic attacks, and shaking all the time when i was on them.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Threadworm on Thu 28-Feb-08 09:42:43
Don't really want to do interview or anything but want to say that the benefits of ADs have always been uncertain to me. I am never sure that they are genuinely helping me to a worthwhile degree, and I will be tapering off gradually now as this latest research is the death knell of my confidence in them.

The only exception to this is seroxat, which I do feel helped me a little more than all the others I've tried.


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