Posted by bleauberry on October 11, 2007, at 21:33:40
In reply to You people are suckers, posted by LostBoyinNCBecksDark on October 11, 2007, at 2:22:01
I disagree with the choice of words, but I do understand your frustration. In psychiatry, efforts are made only at treating symptoms, and not doing it very well statistically, and the whole effort is basically a roll-the-dice guessing game based on someone's theory, hunch, or experience.
I'm glad you found the real cause of your body chemistry's problem. I suspect most if not all psychiatric patients also have an identifiable cause. Sadly, doctors don't investigate much, other than a basic blood test and maybe an incomplete thyroid test.
Unknown allergies. Unknown intolerances. Faulty genes in the B-vitamin/methylation mechanisms. Heavy metal toxicity (copper, lead, mercury). Amalgam fillings. Candida overgrowth. Parasites. And many others. These all cause serious psychiatric problems that no psych drug is going to fix. They are all identifiable in a lab test. No more guessing at WHY the symptoms are happening. There is a cause and it can be seen in a blood draw, if one knows what to look for.
That being said, psych drugs are life-savers for a minority of people. There are impressive success stories with them. Not that many though.
Find the cause and fix it rather than guessing at how to manage the symptoms is what I believe. For the $10,000 dollars the patient will eventurally spend on medications, and the dozen or so years of their lives wasted in suffering trials, far less money could have been spent on finding the real problem, fixing it, and be well in a few months, in a way that lasts a lifetime.
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