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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn