Posted by Nezirov on July 1, 2005, at 17:47:18 [reposted on July 2, 2005, at 0:55:29 | original URL]
In reply to Re: personally i hope people listen to him..., posted by Nickengland on July 1, 2005, at 16:33:12
Some people may need medications, I'm not denying that. But only a small percentage of people. If you believed the DSM manuals, then everybody has mental illness. Nonsense.
A lot of the problems people have are a result of the way society is today. I could talk at length about that, but another time.
Anyway, the drugs are vastly overprescibed and many people end up getting mental illness from them who never had it originally.
The human brain is the most complicated thing in the known universe, and artificially raising a major neurotransmitters for years at a time will almost always cause further damage.
Then you end up getting hooked on the drugs for life. It's a vicious circle..Nezirov
> The illness(s) do much more harm than good in the long-term...its easy to put down psychiatry, but not so easy to offer alternatives as you end up looking like a fool like Tom Cruise saying "Vitamins and Exercise"
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> Psychiatry is in its infancy Nezirov and there is so much more to be learned for the future. We have come along way from what the treatment was 200 hundreds ago and many thousands upon hundreds of thousands of people are helped.
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> Yes some people can be made worse by medication that is supposed to make them better. But in the past people were left for dead quite literally.
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> I can understand that you have bitterness for being let down by a medication and psychiatry...but that does not mean that "everyone" has been let down and are under-going more harm than good in the long-term...when in reality many people who are in and out of hospital are finally put on the "right" medications they can regain their lives, build familys and hold down full-time jobs.
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> At present medications only treat the symtoms..they are not an over-night quick fix - There is no alternative than what psychiatry has to offer today and if you think you you can treat any severe mental illness otherwise please lets us know...
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> Kind regards
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> Nick
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> Ps Sexual dysfunction is a common problem in people who have never taken SSRI medication aswell as never even had a psychiatric problem.
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