Why does ECT not treat generalized anxiety if it’s caused by shortage of the same brain chemical as depression?
. . . (serotonin in-between the cell receptors), and many depression treatments (Zoloft, for example) treat both depression and anxiety, just at different dose levels (2X – 3X higher for treating anxieties)?
In other words, why doesn’t this seemingly simple analogy hold?
A different type of receptors for anxiety vs. those for depression?
Saying a particular receptor causes depression or anxiety is quite a crude generalisation.
They only help in one way. Like if you are cold and you put on a hat, the hat HELPS, but it isn’t going to take the place of the coat, gloves a scarf now is it? Also, just because affecting certain receptors helps doesn’t mean that those receptors are even the cause of the disease itself.
In my opinion, ECT is a very crude and barbaric treatment that is only allowed because as a society we think less of mental patients.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Saying a particular receptor causes depression or anxiety is quite a crude generalisation.
They only help in one way. Like if you are cold and you put on a hat, the hat HELPS, but it isn’t going to take the place of the coat, gloves a scarf now is it? Also, just because affecting certain receptors helps doesn’t mean that those receptors are even the cause of the disease itself.
In my opinion, ECT is a very crude and barbaric treatment that is only allowed because as a society we think less of mental patients.
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February 5th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Anxiety co-exists with Bi-Polar depression, Uni-polar the depressions that are caused by the disease of depression. ECT is for depression that medications aren’t working for. It isn’t for anxiety as there are excellent anti-anxieties that work and therapies that work for anxiety. The disease of depression can be very hard to treat and for some anti-depressants don’t work>
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