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Topic: Antidepressants

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite body part(s):

Heart, Lungs

Favorite activity(s):

Taking drugs, Sleepwalking sleepwalker, Sleeping

People talk about their ..:

Childhood trauma

Bad point(s):

Pessimistic

Personality:

Depressive, Sad, Suicidal

Ultimate fantasy(s):

Having severe anorexia

Medical note(s):

Taking Prozac, Taking Valium, Approaching psychosis

Worst habit(s):

Taking Ecstasy, Smoking, Taking Drugs

Favorite quote(s):

"Reality is a crutch for people who can not deal with drugs." - Lily Tomlin
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729)
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Expert Talk

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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

Tricyclic antidepressants are not addicting.
Antidepressants are generally helpful for all eating disorders but the client would need to decide if they chose to include medication as a part of their treatment.
Antidepressant medications are available from your physician for those who do not respond to other treatments or just want to take one pill a day.

Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Antidepressants are so overprescribed.
Antidepressant medications are helpful in combating the depressive symptoms frequently seen in methamphetamine users who recently have become abstinent.
Antidepressants are implicated not only in causing mania but in causing rapid cycling and a long-term worsening of the course of bipolar illness.

Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Tricyclic antidepressants were first added to fluoxetine and because of the reported increased efficacy, clinical trials ensued.
Antidepressant medications are grouped either by their chemical structure or by the sites in the brain to which they bind.
Antidepressants increase concentrations of these two chemicals at nerve endings and so seem to boost the function of those parts of the brain that use Serotonin and Noradrenaline.

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