thought i had
how about this. is there already a word for this thing i'm going to describe. if not, i have one in mind.
When someone takes a prescription for something which has both physiological AND habit-related/personal lifestyle type components to it, and the drug fixes the physiological component to a point where they neglect the personal choices they typically make because they're usually in pain or what have you, they get secondary symptoms from the neglect of the personal care. so what would happen is, you'd get new symptoms, and get medication for those, and they would not realy be necessary, since they were not true side effects from the first drug, but they'd appear to be.
so i want to call this phenomenon secondary side-effects, because they're not side effects of the action of the drug, but of the behavior you begin/lapse when the drug solves your primary complaint. . .. any thoughts? anyone?
When someone takes a prescription for something which has both physiological AND habit-related/personal lifestyle type components to it, and the drug fixes the physiological component to a point where they neglect the personal choices they typically make because they're usually in pain or what have you, they get secondary symptoms from the neglect of the personal care. so what would happen is, you'd get new symptoms, and get medication for those, and they would not realy be necessary, since they were not true side effects from the first drug, but they'd appear to be.
so i want to call this phenomenon secondary side-effects, because they're not side effects of the action of the drug, but of the behavior you begin/lapse when the drug solves your primary complaint. . .. any thoughts? anyone?
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Interesting. You should give a concrete example.
ok here: lets say someone has acid reflux. they have arrived at a list of behaviours (foods they can't eat. sleeping enough at regular hours) that they have to do to keep it under control prior to seeking a drug. so added stress in their life makes that not enough. they ask for a drug and are given one. the drug works well on their reflux, so well that they feel like they'll be ok staying up late, and eating those foods. but then they start having other problems, due to the poorer behaviors. like increased anxiety from lack of sleep, other stomach or digestive problems from the worse quality of food. those things could show up and be considered something like a plop, i mean side-effect, but actually are not a result of the drug working on unintended sytems, but on the drug relieving the problem so as to allow the damaging behavior a chance to detract from other systems.
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