Posted by Nickengland on June 6, 2005, at 11:53:19
In reply to MEDICINE IS WRONG!, posted by prozacpuppet on June 6, 2005, at 5:54:41
>USE YOUR MIND TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS!
Is the same as saying if something was wrong with you're heart "use your heart to solve your own problems"
It gets complicated because you think that perhaps maybe you think, you can "think" you're way out of a problem you may be suffering...in the same way you use your mind to think a way out of other problems eg a crossword puzzle.
Try telling that to someone who is manic when part of there illness is to think that nothing is wrong!
The fact is the brain is an organ and if it is not working as it should then the reaction is you feel different - which is turn you have symtoms - which in turn is your behaviour reacts differently to.
You need to "fix" the cause of these problems and therefore you need to treat you're brain.
What medication offers, if given correctly will ease the disruption.
It will not "cure" but if given correctly it will "relieve" you're problems in the long-run.
If the brain is not working properly, you are not working properly. the only way to get your brain working properly is through medication, its not perfect and you can't expect it to be, but for now its more or less the best thing you can use...and if you can get by without it, then that is the best outcome you can have..but for many others medication (at least for now) is the best outcome those people can expect to have...
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