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Posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 10:03:56
Perhaps you'll find this article worth reading:
http://www.alternet.org/health/155001/how_psychiatric_drugs_made_america_mad_/?page=entire
Posted by Phillipa on April 23, 2012, at 12:18:06
In reply to If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Effects, posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 10:03:56
MRI's have shown my brain to be "normal" for age despite low doses of ad's and benzos for over 36 years as insulin adjusts to pancreas to create more on it's own I feel the same is true of psych meds. My new doc doesn't believe in taking high doses of meds so stay at subtheraputic doses and remain with same symtoms. Experimenting find that raising doses just after a few days you feel as you felt before raising so why raise dose? Phillipa
Posted by Bob12 on April 23, 2012, at 15:44:51
In reply to If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Effects, posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 10:03:56
great article- I still have not recovered from taking prozac in 1994
Posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 16:01:56
In reply to Re: If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Eff, posted by Bob12 on April 23, 2012, at 15:44:51
> great article- I still have not recovered from taking prozac in 1994
I can't really be positive that some current complaints are the result of the many prescription drugs I took for many years, but I have my suspicions. The main reson I don't take them any more is that they don't work, and I strongly suspect that when I thought they were working, it was really because my life circumstances had changed (better job, etc.).I post such articles mainly to encourage folks to not blindly trust their physicians, and to consider all possibilities.
Posted by Chris O on April 23, 2012, at 17:14:03
In reply to If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Effects, posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 10:03:56
I'm sure that Bruce Levin and Gary Kohls are motivated only by the best intentions when they write their anti-psycho-pharma articles on AlterNet. Heck, I'm as anti-drug as they come, yet in my desperation to function I am reduced to seeking out some, any type of treatment that will reduce my anxiety/panic/depression. Yes, I realize that psychiatric drugs may harm me. For that, I am forever angry at my "family," their biology, their inability to support/raise functional children, their codependence, their addictions, and a million other things I go over in my head everyday. But short of a rage-induced venge fest in which I still will be left with my clearly biologically damaged brain, where am I to turn? I've done all the "natural" treatments (vigorous exercise helps a bit), but nothing, even in the highest doses, works. I've meditated, yoga-ed, tai-chi-ed, karate-ed, relaxation-taped myself to death. I've written many letters to our "leaders" pleading for a more compassionate social support system. (But, in truth, I'm not sure that last thing would get to the crux of my issue, either.) In the end, I'm left turning to psychiatry, which, despite its issues, at least tries to help people like me function in the world. And there is one statement in that Kohl article with which I strongly disagree: That the types of mental illness treated by psychiatric medications are mostly a "first world" issue. No, no, no. That is simply not true. I taught English as a Second Language for most of the 1990s; worked with many students from "non-first world" countries. So many untreated mentally ill people in that bunch. So many. Yet, no treatment for them. Just a lifetime of living with mommy or daddy (if not literally, then financially and emotionally), or funneling mental illness into religious or cultural practices, or suicide, due to "pressure." Mental illness? No, that's too shameful for that bunch. The rest of the world (the non-westernized world, in old school terminology) is not as "progressive" and open as people like Kohl and Levin frame it in their articles; quite the contrary, really, even that mythological bastion of liberalism, Europe. Perhaps what we're seeing in America is a generation of people really trying to liberate themselves, and define their selves, their beings, in ways that past generations could not do. Perhaps that is the reason for the rise in antidepressant use, not some sinister marketing campaign.
Posted by sigismund on April 24, 2012, at 0:44:39
In reply to Re: If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Effects » ron1953, posted by Chris O on April 23, 2012, at 17:14:03
I would readily f*ck myself up if the drugs would just make me feel good for a bit.
Posted by TiredofChemicals on April 29, 2012, at 11:57:29
In reply to If You're Worried About Adverse Medication Effects, posted by ron1953 on April 23, 2012, at 10:03:56
> Perhaps you'll find this article worth reading:
>
> http://www.alternet.org/health/155001/how_psychiatric_drugs_made_america_mad_/?page=entire
^^^^
ahhh hell yeah! At least somebody is saying something. Psychiatry (in my opinion) is the modern day version of the snake oil salesman of the old west, except now, they are making huge amounts of money through their chemical peddling.Just watch! They will come up with some new, polished version of their snake oil. You see? Many people are realizing that they have been misled or hoodwinked to obtain their money.
Regards
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