Re: BP-III

December 31, 2004

In a message dated 12/31/04 6:59:55 AM Mountain Standard Time,

> The

> DSM-IV(which is used in courts all the time) also talks about the risk of

> the

> antidepressant induced Hypomania/Mania. My Psychiatrist and Therapist both

> said Zoloft " activated " my bipolar disorder and if my father (who is 60)

> were to take Zoloft, he could then get bipolar disorder. And also, there

> are plenty of books discussing Hypomania/Mania activation - Dr.

> Breggin's " The Antidepressant Fact Book " , Dr. Ann 's " Prozac: Panacea

> or Pandora " , and Dr. Joe Glenmullen's " Prozac Backlash " . There is also a

> great report about Mania induction on Breggin's website,

>

But if you didn't have these symptoms BEFORE you took Zoloft, then it was the

Zoloft that caused your mania, but I cannot stress to you enough that if you

did NOT have symptoms BEFORE, you cannot say that it was lying dormant and

then triggered by a drug. I can't tell you how that sounds like drug company

propaganda. The very nature of a mental illness is that it must manifest

symptoms. When they tried to tell me I'd been bi-polar all my life and I just

didn't

know it, I couldn't believe how utterly stupid this doctor sounded. That's

like saying, " Oh, you were always schizophrenic but didn't know it. " How could

have these illnesses and NOT know it? The drugs causes these problems

whether there is any predisposition (which I don't believe exists) or any

genetic

component (which also hasn't been proven to exist!) That's like saying to " Oh,

look at Johhny, he snorted a bunch of cocaine and it activated his mania. "

Well, DUH!! Of course, it makes people manic, because THAT's what it does, so

ny doesn't need any other bio factors, and neither do the people who went

manic on an SSRI. The drugs CAUSE mania regardless.

" Blind Reason "

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