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To: XeniaSt
Perhaps.

Personally, I wouldn’t take ANY of them.

If I get “depressed” I talk to God, my spouse or someone that I know cares about me. I have yet to meet anyone that really needed this crap. The ugly truth is, drum roll, something is troubling their soul. A pill is just a bandage. It’s artificial “relief” that causes chemical changes in your brain that are NOT good.

21 posted on 05/19/2007 6:25:31 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh
Perhaps.

Personally, I wouldn’t take ANY of them.

If I get “depressed” I talk to God, my spouse or someone that I know cares about me. I have yet to meet anyone that really needed this crap. The ugly truth is, drum roll, something is troubling their soul. A pill is just a bandage. It’s artificial “relief” that causes chemical changes in your brain that are NOT good.

Is the brain not a human organ just as capable to be inflicted with a disorder that can not be prayed away? My dad has diabetes, is an infliction, should he simply pray it away? Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that the brain is a complex organ just as capable to possess a disorder as any other organ.

If you have asthma, would you not use an inhaler? If you have a migraine, do you not take a pain reliever?

43 posted on 05/19/2007 6:54:15 PM PDT by smith288 (Ohio State, close to being 2007 NCAA Champs)
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To: nmh

Well then let me introduce myself I have been on an SSRI for about 15 years. Life before that had very little joy. I also prayed and read my Bible and went to church, I had a loving spouse, great friends and supportive parents. But I couldn’t shake the worry and obsessive thoughts that kept me miserable.These drugs do help many people. Many people in the church community have told me that I just need to trust G-d more.When my mother told me about some of my early problems with depression, in grade school, I realized that faith wasn’t the issue, chemistry was the problem. BTW after all the years, I am still on the lowest dose of my medication, Luvox.


65 posted on 05/19/2007 8:31:44 PM PDT by BruceysMom (I don't believe in soul mates, I don't think most men have souls.)
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To: nmh

I have yet to meet anyone that really needed this crap.
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I will happily extend an invitation for you to come and meet my mother.


93 posted on 05/21/2007 12:32:57 PM PDT by dmz
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