Posted by linkadge on October 24, 2007, at 14:05:50
In reply to Re: That Way Lies Madness » linkadge, posted by Squiggles on October 24, 2007, at 7:27:17
I need to clarify my "siting on the couch comment" again. I appologise if it came across the wrong way.
Let me give an example to clarify what I mean.
My father has high blood pressure and high cholseterol. The doctor gave him meds to treat this, and hinted that there might be a genetic basis for his high cholesterol.
He makes absolutely no attempt to modify his diet, instead making statments like "it doesn't matter what I eat cause my cholsertol issue is genetic". Most people can see that this is not the best approach.
It is highly likely that some dietary modification would greatly augment the effects of the medications. However, he uses what the doctor suggested as a licence not to bother looking for other ways to help his disease.
This is what I was hinting at. That some people use the (currently highly unrefined)genetic/biological basis of their illenss as a licence to be closedminded to a varienty of other treatment possabilities. Sometimes this manifests as "I won't try therapy, cause my disease is biological", or "I won't bother to try exercising as my disease is biological". I realize this type of mindset is only a subset of those suffering from depression.
* I am not suggesting that everybody who takes medications is lazy or that they sit on the couch all day popping pills etc.What I was trying to say is that I don't understand people who adimently hold to the genetic biological basis of their illness as a means of avoiding looking to other possable causes. I pesonally believe that genetic or not, people who embrace a variety of possable treatment angles and tools generally achieve the most enduring and satisfactory results.
If you can take a pill, and never have another problem again, then all the power to you, but since most people do not fall into that category, I don't know why people would be so closedminded to a multifaceted approach.
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