Like Depression pills?
2007-01-24 08:01:14 · 9 answers · asked by Doug 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure. What do you know about depression?
It has to do with chemicals in the brain. If you balance the serotonin levels to normal amounts, the person no longer suffers from the symptoms of depression.
This article from the National Institute of Mental Health will explain in more depth. (Go down the page a bit to get to the chemical stuff)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm#ptdep5
It's all quite scientific and provable.
In many cases anti-depressants alone are enough to lift the person from depression, but often counselling also goes works very well with this.
2007-01-24 08:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SSRI's or Serotonin Selective Reuptake Inhibitors change people's lives. When serotonin is low in a person's brain, they are depressed. It's a fact. These pills increase the available serotonin and consequently allow people to live better lives.
They work; I've seen them do so. They do so in much the same way that anti-psychotics, such as Seroquel or Risperodol help schizophrenic people.
Psychotropic medications work. It may take a while to find the correct med, but they do work.
2007-01-24 16:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have lived with depression you would know the answer is yes. It is just as dibilitating of a disease as anything else. The pills balance chemicals in the brain that cause this disease so yes they do work. I think part of it is just taking the pill also, like many things our minds have the ability to heal, if you think your getting better you usually do much in the same if you think your feeling worse you usually start to. The mind is a powerful thing.
2007-01-24 16:09:15 · answer #3 · answered by CelticFairy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think pills drugs or whatever can change an outlook on life. It can mess you up. ALL drugs have some side effect.
Even Asprin.
2007-01-24 16:07:20 · answer #4 · answered by Todd V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, you ever try LSD?
It will permanently change your perception....for the better.
It's a REAL eye opener.
....not exactly a pill, more like a tab, but the same idea.
2007-01-24 16:04:07 · answer #5 · answered by janesweetjane 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
isn't it amazing that these pills, with contents that are measured in the micrograms, can have such profound effects on our personality and perception of reality?
What does this tell you about what we are?
Such delicate machinery.
2007-01-24 16:07:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely they can. By altering your brain chemistry.
2007-01-24 16:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure
why else would they be so popular?
2007-01-24 16:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by Josephus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2007-01-24 16:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋