Posted by Sad Sara on November 5, 2004, at 11:55:33
In reply to Re: Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology, posted by Squiggles on November 5, 2004, at 11:20:16
>
> ..........
> > I think people would take horrid drugs anyway, otherwise: why are so many people still taking the horrid drugs when they have no or little effect on their mental disease or give side effects that is just as bad as the original mental disease?
>
> Sad Sara,
>
> I hope that you are successful in trying something
> like psychotherapy. I don't know what your
> diagnosis or depression is like.
>
>
> You ask above why are people still taking the
> horrid drugs when they have
>
> - little
>
> - no
>
> - or worse effects than the disease;
>
> And I think it's because, once you are on the
> drugs,
>
> - you will be worse getting off
>
> - your doctor cannot or will not get you off
>
> - your biochemical state has become so used to
> being on the drugs that it's risky to get off
>
> - or you may get off only to find that you were
> sick after all, and become very ill;
>
> Good reasons to stay on if your dr.
> had reason to put you on them, right;
>
> Squiggles
Good reason to try something else than medicines first, I think.
poster:Sad Sara
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