Posted on 05/02/2019 6:55:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The medications in use today have all passed testing which required them to show better results in controlled experiments than placebos. That's how they got FDA approval. So the professor's theory that the drugs are really just the same as placebos is wrong.
Her suggestion that lithium is ignored because it isn't profitable is factually incorrect. Lithium is still a top choice drug for some types of bipolar disorder. Other drug options however are often preferred due to the risks of treatment with lithium.
The professor's suggestion that mental health treatment is an either/or choice - therapy or drugs - has not been paying attention to what real doctors and therapists do. Every serious mental health organization uses both therapy and when appropriate, medications, to treat their patients.
The mistaken reliance on drugs often occurs when serious mental health problems are treated by non-specialists, or when attempts are made to treat very serious cases on an outpatient basis, without sufficient oversight.
Prescribing meds has become the FIRST step, not the last.
This has had destructive effects upon many people I’ve known.
Take acid for that grateful sense of
relief ... for when its effects are over.
LOL! :)
The professor is among the large section of Americans who
believe to suffer is noble. As long as someone else has to to it.
It’s called “stinkin’ thinkin’”, and there sure is a lot of it going around.
Demonic possession by the ghost of Karl Marx
***Prescribing meds has become the FIRST step, not the last.
This has had destructive effects upon many people I’ve known.***
I couldn’t agree more.
Is that exact or rounded?
Yes it was used to operate on animals and in the 70s it was used in surgery where I worked. It was weird as people had their eyes open and looking around but in a stupor. We didn’t use it long.
People snort it. They put the liquid on a plate, use a hair dryer, then chip off the flakes. I thought it was only used illicitly...
This ignores the impact of forcing insurance policies to include mental health. Prior to that you pretty much had to be nutty enough to be institutionalized to be covered. Once it was added to policies, trips to the shrink increased radically.
I have read some books that contend something so amazing to me, not being an American, I have to ask if anyone here can concur. Apparently doctors in America will prescribe anti-depressants like candy to people who are simply going through a situational period of depression. For example the death of a loved one or deep stress, but for people not suffering from a mental illness. Is this true?
I ask as fully disclosing here, someone who suffers from moderate depression. My experience is it took years to find a suitable drug but that I require a mix of drugs and therapy. Much of what I tried I had to get off because the side effects are insane. Effexor for example. First night I took it did not sleep for ONE second. I am not a person who has ever dealt with insomnia and it was pure torture. You are not suppose to quit cold Turkey without consulting your doctor but I did in this case because I couldn’t handle the insanity the drug caused me by keeping me from sleeping.
Other anti-depressants cause insane weight gain. In most cases the drug either doesn’t work or the side effects are worse than the condition.
So I am surprised they are prescribed so readily, if that really is true, that they are over prescribed in the United States.
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