Posted by bob on April 5, 2000, at 16:22:03
In reply to Re: So Many Posts about Medication(s) - How Come?, posted by Noa on April 5, 2000, at 15:38:30
Hey, I don't tell ANYONE what goes on between my therapist and me.
If you stick around, you'll see threads pop up about all sorts of therapies -- whether its someone's views on Freudian or Jungian analysis, EMDR, CBT, ECT, and all sorts of other acronyms.
I think meds get the focus because they have the biggest bang-for-the-buck potential. They also have the most observable problems. Medication issues are always in your face, while other therapies can work more slowly, more behind the scenes.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Another thing comes to mind -- that while meds do different things to different people, their effects are far more predictable than discussing what ten years of 4 sessions/week of psychoanalysis is going to do for or to you.
My therapist talks about meds as giving you a window on feeling different. Now, I may have been experiencing changes through all the work I was doing with her, but I felt a new me within 30 minutes of the first pill I ever took. After years and years of gradual shifts, I found a new view of the world -- one I never had been capable of even imagining -- in 30 minutes.
And no, it doesn't trouble me, because I don't sit back and take whatever's given to me. THAT, I think, is the character of 90% of the medications discussions here -- not being a mindless zombie patient, but being an informed consumer and an active participant in your own health care.
my $1.35
bob
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