Posted by JohnL on August 15, 2000, at 5:23:15
In reply to This #@*$@ sucks!, posted by ToddfromPhoenix on August 14, 2000, at 21:59:03
With a society that is so advanced and billions in research, why can doctors not provide a real "chemical correction" to brain chemistry rather than sending these little pills of Drano into our system? I can go to a medical doctor, get a checkup, draw my blood and find a deficiency in its makeup and correct it. Why can't something like that be done for the mind?
Actually it can. But not the way MOST doctors are currently trained. There is however a way to pinpoint the chemical correction needed.
And it does involve pills. The pills--the RIGHT pills--provide exactly the "chemical correction" you mentioned. I understand and agree with you though, that pills alone aren't the complete answer. Healthy foods, healthy activities, counseling, religious convictions, morality...all of these things are important. Ignoranace of any one of them will cause either a physical or a mental deterioration, or both.
Chemical correction is something that exists today, right here and now. Unfortunately most medical professionals are not trained in a way as to quickly pinpoint it. Instead they try to match a supposed diagnosis with a supposed appropriate medication for that supposed diagnosis. In my opinion, that is all wrong. But of course, that's kind of like Columbus saying the earth isn't flat. Teachings and beliefs are so well entrenched that many things in psychiatry are taken as fact. But they aren't facts. There are other ways. Faster ways. More accurate ways. Chemical correction can be accomplished in days or weeks. Not months or years. FYI
John
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