Re: PAXIL & GINGO

["Donald F. McKinley" <flash@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jann Bell" <jbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: PAXIL & GINGO
U MUST UNDERSTOOD ME I TAKE PAXIL  A JUDGE IN CA PUT A STOP TO IT. 

> So, should diabetics stop taking insulin because they have a habit of using
> it in order to live? Should asthma sufferers figure out a way to stop their
> medication because it is lets them continue one of the most ingrained habits
> of all, breathing?
> 
> Excuse, I am mentally ill, an obsessive compulsive with a bad case of
> circular thinking. Some form or another of it runs throughout the
> strangely-wired brains of all my blood relatives.  Everybody (hopefully)
> finds a way to cope.
> Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, of which Paxil is one, helps people
> optimize their thoughts and energy instead of using an inordinate amount
> working around their malfunctioning synapses. And, since Serotonin and
> Dopamine seem very related to each other, who can presently say that taking
> a drug that helps get all the goodie out of what Serotonin we are able to
> utilize efficiently that it doesn't have some good benefit for the Dopamine
> connection (they have no long term studies on any of the SSRIs that I am
> aware of).
> 
> Yes, most drugs are habit forming, if not physiologically then for the
> benefits they enable. I will always take a SSRI (unless something more
> targeted comes along). I work with a division of Medicaid and our beef with
> the companies that advertise their designer drugs is the affect it has on
> advertising targets. The ads always mention to ask you doctor about their
> specific drug at the expense (literally) of a generic one that might be just
> as effective (granted some aren't) It's a money thing for state run Medicaid
> HMOs whose administrators have little hair left on their heads after so much
> pulling for creative solutions to a shrinking budget.
> 
> Now, if Don was asking about SSRIs as specifically related to Parkinson's, I
> cannot answer that. My Dad is very depressed altho' his generation would
> never put a name to his despair.
> 
> If I have missed Don's point, nevermind.
> 
> 
> 
> CG Jann
> 
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