please read these links about Strattera, a failed & recycled antidepressant

[sam sarrha]

i took this crap with out any diagnosis... it is NOT a non amphetamine like drug, it is in the family of antidepressants that cause suicide, it has not actually been appropriately tested.

i had a real bad experience with it, i started 'hallucinating' for lack of a better term, i fell into a world of total death and decay, a compulsive scenario of a world of everyone i knew being dead, i could not move them do to a bad back so was making plans to leave and try to go somewhere else.. but there would be nothing but more death and decay and chaos anywhere else.. i had decided i would just have to go sit somewhere and wait for death to take me.. i had actually accepted that.. i had to forcefully literally pry my mind out of those thoughts..

it was really speedy.. maybe if i had had ADD the amphetamine effect could have worked like Ritalin.. but i apparently dont have ADD ..it sounds like i have Aspergers Syndrome.. i have an IQ of 164 and am essentially functionally illiterate.
i have good verbal skills, but i have poor spelling and syntax.. i could never do a job involving clerical or office work..

i am sort of a savant with technical information and things involving small parts..

the misdiagnoses of ADD comes form the lack of a Mirror region in the brain that facilitates beginning and ending a task.. there is information on that at http://www.wrongplanet.net

check these out

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2006/01/eli_lillys_and_christopher_gillbergs_failed_experiment_with_strattera.html

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2006/03/eli_lillys_strattera_130_reports_of_suicidality_in_one_month.html

http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/04/26.php

[shrike]

1. I am ADD. Was put it on it initially

because, unlike Concerta (which I currently take), it is not a controlled substance.

Didn't have a real strong reaction; just felt "weird." Had some hand tremors; part of my problem was that I also take fluoxetine, the generic alternative to Prozac, and for this particular refill, the druggist mistakenly filled it with the generic for Paxil, Paroxetene. Didn't notice it until I looked carefully at the label.

My niece and BIL saw no improvement from Strattera. I have heard of only one person who did, but no one I know personally.

[sam sarrha]

2. check out this.LINK>.read up on Aspergers Syndrome..might apply might not

ADD is an element, subset, in a 'syndrome' calles Aspergers Syndrome. not all who have it exibit the same symptoms

[Deja Q]

3. I hear you totally.

I am envious of your IQ 164. (I'm only 131. :( ) And I am just as functionally illiterate.

But my skill is in writing. Verbally, I make Bush come across as a well trained British theatre actor by comparison...

I have technical prowess, an eye for visual arts, and a sense of sharp humor. Two of these are not deemed "economically viable". The third requires hollywood, and I do not believe I'd be taken. I'm not mainstream enough. My technical prowess remains, as does my encyclopedia-like memory, but any jobs requiring these skills are going to other countries.

I am also highly emotional and take things too literally... and personally. (the Asperger's quotient again.)

I've been on almost every kind of drug.

Indeed, since taking strattera my brain has undergone a shift. Drugs that used to work are now hazardous to me. Zoloft nearly killed me when combined with the stattera I was on. Depakote made me stable as it had 8 years ago, but instead of being 'happy' I was intensely depressed.

Still, it's life. We could be hit by a bus tomorrow. I try to ignore my sad feelings... and my stupidity of the past. And if I die because of it, oh well. (it's not a disease; you bet I have no social life... money related.)