Posted by ihatedrugs on May 31, 2009, at 11:08:38
In reply to Re: I 've given up hope)frustratedmama)blueberry, posted by ricker on May 31, 2009, at 1:14:46
> > I believe that the consensus amongst us is that depression is a symptom and not a disease per se. The problem however lies in the lack of training, desire, ingnorance and arrogance in the medical community who continue to overlook possible causes despite the literature supporting it.
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> I have to disagree respectfully.
> There's many a person that's had all tests known to man, all with non-remarkable results. The medical community can look only so far and so often, then reason sets in.
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> And for all those that bash the p/docs, well, don't shoot the messenger. It's not like they have a desk full of magic pills hidden in their drawers, under lock and key, just in case they become depressed. They work with the drugs made available by the pharmaceutical companies. So, in a way, their hands are tied in as far as possible treatment options.
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> They stand between us and the drug makers, nothing more. How can we expect them to "make us right" if were all screaming bloody murder in regards to the terrible, side effect producing drugs???
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> Take a look at the topics scattered throughout this site, or any mental health site for that matter........ Drugs kill us, my pdoc is incompitent..... don't shoot the messenger, please.So you mean to tell me that these doctors don't have a say in the matter. They just go by what the pharmaceutical companies tell them. They don't reflect on what their patients repeateadly complain about (which are the same complaints in this forum). Funny how if I survey every poster in this forum and ask them how many times they have switch obgyns, family doctors, or others vs. pyschiatrists the latter would win by a landslide.
All they do is push the next novelty drug hoping this one will do the trick. They are as clueless as we are. Yet how many of these psychiatrists have send a patient to get a complete and exhaustive lab work before they prescribe any medication. Mine surely (3 out 3) have never done it and they are supposed to be among the best.
I as a teacher always have to make an assessement of my students deficiencies before I continue with a lesson. And if one strategy doesn't work, I lay awake at night trying to come up with a new way for them to get it. I just don't rely on crappy research-based strategies from education journals which all they seem to do is dumb education down. So as far a psychiatry go, they are just not doing enough, seating behing their desks, waiting for the next pharm rep to bring them the next new cloned med from past years and hoping their patients like it. We need to demand better and more compassionate care. We need to let the pharmaceutical companies that they are not doing enough. We have to come out from the woodworks as incapacitated as we may feel and speak up loud and clear. Otherwise nothing is going to change.
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