Posted by SLS on November 6, 2013, at 10:08:38
In reply to Pro-meds verses anti-meds therapists, who's right?, posted by sleepygirl2 on November 5, 2013, at 22:36:06
> my group t is anti meds.
In what way? What exactly does your group T say about psychiatric medications?
> Since I am ambivalent regarding meds, this makes for a confusing time.
I'm sure it does.
Difficult cases of hypertension in congestive heart failure can take a great deal of experimentation with different drugs in order to establish a polypharmaceutical regime that will produce improvements. This tactic saved my grandmother's life and allowed her to live to age 99. She took 7 different drugs. It seems bizarre to me that it is so easy for someone to laud the miracles of modern medicine except for in psychiatry. I think some psychotherapists are emotionally committed to their craft and would like to believe that there is no psychiatric malady that they can't fix. I have encountered such people. They can be damaging.
Psychopharmacology and psychotherapy are not in conflict with each other. Both are can be uniquely effective for different psychiatric conditions. In addition, combining the two modalities of treatment can yield better results than either one alone, but not always.
If you have ever responded well to psychiatric pharmacotherapy, then it would be hard to take seriously the maligning of medications by anyone.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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