Kitty,
I forgot to say thank you for sharing that article you found. It is very interesting. I thought most of the AD's work on Serotonin, adding it or making it re-uptake in the brain.

I, too, also thought sadness, depression, lack of emotional wellness was a chemical imbalance in the brain. At least that's what all the ads and information out there stated.

This is good news for many people, if the researchers prove this to be true.

I never used a AD. Well not true. I was given samples of Cymbalta for the burning pain in my legs and feet, but my eyes stayed dilated after about one week on it. They looked pretty to me. Big black pupils, with little green iris around them.

On the phone my Neuro said stop the drug immediately, and that was a tiny dosage. I had a bad reaction to that type of drug they said. So I never tried one again.

It would be great if Prozac protected the brain cells from being destroyed and stop the brain from shrinking, like in Alzheimer's disease also.

That's one of the main reason's I'm going back on it. Both my mother and sister died from Alzheimer's.

am so sorry to hear that Kitty. My Mom had Alzheimer's Disease since she was 59 years old. It was called back then, Pre-Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer's type. I said to her Neuro "What the heck is that?"

It was because she was so young to acquire it. What a shame. She was healthy as a horse (pardon my expression) but her mind was disappearing. Her first MRI showed a shrunken brain.

Her Neuro showed me the films. I still have them. My Dad had just passed away of a heart attack and within six months she got that disease. She was so stressed out. She even forgot their 40 years of marriage.

I took care of her for 10 years at home with some adult day care and help from my DH and children, because I worked. Then I had to put her in a Convalescent Center because she knew no one at all, and needed 24/7 care.

My Neuro said I should have done it years before. She lived to 84 years old. They took excellent care of her. I visited often. It was so sad so I know how it was Kitty. Tragic.

Ah, if only I could take this - LOL! Unfortunately, I need an inhibitor like zoloft for my depression issues. Prozac makes me crazy and ditzy.

You may want to consider giving it another try....I had the same problem with Prozac, the first time I tried it. It does have a bit of an upper effect. That's actually why my Neuro gave it to me, but with my anxiety, it didn't work.

So my Neuro put me on Paxil (the love of my life). Six years later when Paxil stopped working for me, my PCP said, let's try Prozac again. This time it worked for me....I love it.