Posted by linkadge on September 24, 2005, at 19:54:20
In reply to Re: linkadge what would you suggest for depression? » linkadge, posted by crazy teresa on September 24, 2005, at 17:53:01
Tom Cruise came across as sounding like he thought depression was not a real illness, that it was made up.
I fully believe that depression can be a serious illness. I don't undermine it's potential to ruin life. But in some ways I do agree with Tom in that the science behind the treatments is simply not too sound.
I know the drugs have an ability to destroy life.
I have seen quite a few lives destroyed by psychiatric drugs. Primarily my mother's life has been destroyed by tricyclic antidepressants, and antipscyhotics.
You need to find your own path, but I would be lying If I sat here and told you that I thought they were safe and effective.
When you're happy on the drugs, it is hard to imagine what kinds of things they could be doing to the underlying brain.
I heard a recording of myself playing a mozart piano sonata, when I was 16 yrs old. I was studying for a piano exam.
I have not stopped playing the piano since then, but I suspected that I was getting worse. When I heard the recording I wept bitterly for days, because I knew that there was no way on earth that I could make my hands move like they did back then. I knew in the back of my mind that I could not play like I did, but when I heard the recording it hit home hard.
My brain is dammaged. I know that doctors don't give a crap when I tell them this, but at this stage of the game I am not looking for somebody to tell me that they didn't dammage my brain. I know dammage has been done, I just wish somebody would believe me. I know Jaroen would believe me.
I am not trying to minimalize the depressive illness, but I cannot sit here and defend the drugs used to treat it.
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