ya ive heard of everything you are saying they are common arguments brought against a great scope of medicine. What is unscientific about reverse engineering again? it was the catalyst for discovering what the different monoamines do. Hey this drug helps anxiety, how does it do that, well according to this in vitro study they bind (benzos) to the bzd receptors on the Gaba complex increasing cl- influx hyperpolarizing the cells making the threshold for action potentials difficult to elicit. Bam reverse engineering gives us insight into what may be going on, more objective measures have taken its place but pretty much all medicine was done like this. Something works, why does it work, how does it work and so forth, thats science at its core, observation/testing repeat, thats it.
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If you can't perceive how reverse engineering is unscientific then you really need to crack the books and start reading about how the scientific method works dude...
A theory is supposed to be formulated and its results are supposed to be reproduced by ANYONE, ANYWHERE in the world, under the exact same conditions.
Not the same as Prozac might work in some patients, but not in others, well then let's add Zoloft to the second group, see what happens.
well i was referring to chronic illness and i mentioned the difference between extrinsic versus organic issues so im justified logically in my example.
Panic attacks are physiological, how couldnt they be ALL THAT EXISTS IS PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. the mind is a process not a thing, it is like migration in geese, geese are said to migrate yet migration isn't tangible, has no value and is a product of physical things (ie birds flying in a direction) the mind is the same thing. It is simply the processes of neuronal firing in particular areas nothing more.
polypharmacy is a product of poor drug usage and effect size, it exists in all branches of medicine. Lets stay with asthma or atopy. These people take corticosteriods (inhaled usually) and use beta agonists (long or short) to prevent attacks or to halt an attack. Thats two drugs already, however this sometimes does not control the inflammation and a leukotriene inhibitor like monteleukast is added. Then these people often suffer from allergies and dermatological things like allergic dermatitis, this can lead to h1 antagonists, topical steriods etc..
You're going in circles bro...
Of course the mind arises from natural processes, my point was (have you been reading what I wrote, at all?) that the current models for those processes are flawed and thusly they produce flawed treatments.
this happens because our drugs aren't good enough yet, doctors are incompetant and patients wont do anything to help themselves. Its a perfect analogy to mental health, you say drugs dont cure anything in psychiatry without the person going to therapy, exercising etc the same is true for asthma and allergy sufferers. Medications dont cure anything then are palliative by nature.
That was closer to my points, however you're ignoring the role pharmaceutical industries play in all this, and especially their relationship with academic psychiatry... in any case, you're starting to generalise again... very worrying.
by the way the study was of unpublished studies mixed with published, look at the methodology and the fact that some trials were fucked up its no wonder they show little effect. Im not a fan of them either but they are usually safe (serotonin syndrome is the only really serious side, well suicide too lol) and have ample evidence to show they work.
The conclusions from the FDA study are valid. The trial studies which showed that Seroxat works were also flawed and those which showed that the drug SIGNIFICANTLY raised suicide risks in teenagers were NOT released.
However, the drug was approved for use in treatment.
When kids started killing themselves and people started having severe problems from quitting the drug, evidence started coming to light.
The drug was still not withdrawn... Painkillers that were shown to cause heart attacks were withdrawn... but why those SSRI's weren't? (some homework for you, mate)
SSRIS work... lolol another generalisation... there also exists ample evidence that shows they fuck people up
