Posted by Dinah on May 10, 2012, at 9:04:48
In reply to This is the Truth, posted by huxley on May 10, 2012, at 4:40:15
I think I have an ingrained reaction to capitalized truth.
Can a distinction at least be made? I've seen unmedicated psychosis. I've seen unmedicated bipolar. My family has a long history of severe depression self treated. I wouldn't want to go back to those days. My aunt unmedicated? Unable to be a mother to her children. Miserable and afraid. My aunt medicated? A productive member of society and beloved mother with some troublesome side effects.
I think the most pro-medication people would agree that psych meds are overprescribed by ignorant doctors who find reaching for a prescription pad the easiest solution.
I think most people who believe in mental illness as a serious problem where kindling can make the problem more and more severe could be induced to believe that medications can have long lasting effects on some people.
I hope that most anti med people are not blanketly anti med, and can agree that some mental illness is better treated than not.
The thing is that I am seeing balanced posts by pro-med people a whole lot more than I am seeing balanced posts by anti-med people. This overall makes me more pro-med than I might otherwise be. But that's me. And admittedly, I might be guilty of remembering some posts more than others. But I honestly don't recall many people speaking lyrically of the magic of medicine for everyone who suffers the slightest problem, and do recall many posts damning all psych meds.
I'd also like to see some evidence that psych meds are more harmful than any other meds. Seems to me that I can only recall one psych meds among the many legal cattle calls for class action suits.
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