anti-depressants and racing/training

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I am looking for any information (or personal experience) about the effects of anti-depressants on
racing/training. Thanks.

Training IS an anti-depressant.

-WG

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I am looking for any information (or personal experience) about the effects of anti-depressants on
racing/training. Thanks.

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Think about what the anti-depressants are trying to do...reduce anxiety, aggressive tendencies,
compulsive behaviors. They are designed to temper the personality.

Bike Racers tend to be compulsive, aggressive people, if not outwardly, than definitely in their
training and racing. I've seen it happen where a rider looses a lot of the drive to train harder and
push the body to its' limits when he starts taking anti-depressants.

Understand that there are trade-offs in life.

-Scott

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I am looking for any information (or personal experience) about the effects of anti-depressants
on racing/training. Thanks.

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Think about what the anti-depressants are trying to do...reduce anxiety, aggressive tendencies,
compulsive behaviors. They are designed to temper the personality.

Anti-depressants are not used for anxiety, some have been approved for Obessive/complusive
behaviour, they are not designed to temper the personality.

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) bind to the
serotonin transporter and inhibit reuptake, enhancing serotonin activity within the synapse. (1, 5)
At clinical doses, the SSRIs have little effect on the norepinephrine or dopamine transporters and a
low affinity for the histaminic, muscarinic/cholinergic, and alpha receptors.

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Any information on temazepam/ambien/sonata and their effect on athletic performance?

Brett Clare

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paxil (a somewhat similar drug to prozac, except better for social

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to vent heat as well as surge.

only subjective, though.

some of the older anti-depressants(trazadone, maois) definitely interfere with heat regulation
circuits in brain, you can end up dead if not careful with extreme exercise in heat

Alan Caggiano PsyD doctor of clinical psychology

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Two which will prolly not impair training/racing: Wellbutrin SR and

Prozac...

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Wellbutrin SR may help it, actually...

Paxil is anticholinergic, causes weight gain and tends to zombify one.

Avoid

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it.

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