Posted on 07/19/2015 6:00:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
About time for the Scientologists to join the fray, if they aren’t here all ready. My mother has Alzheimer’s , late stage. Thank God for her wonderful Psychiatrist.
Certainly many meds are over prescribed. It seems like 1 out of every 5 parents I know has been told their child has ADHD.
No apologies required
Medicine, like any of the Sciences
is a moving target, seeing through darkened glasses dimly
I believe Jung said that most mental problems are spiritual in nature.
Really. I think the barbers knife, used on person after person, might be cleaner than leeches. Just call me old fashioned.
>>>This second option is controversial because it may involve medicating people against their will. We have no trouble allowing treatment of unconscious, injured people when doctors deem it necessary. But civil libertarians oppose involuntary treatment of people incapacitated by serious mental disorders — many of whom, Lieberman points out, will end up in emergency rooms or jails if left to their own devices.<<<
So you’re against same-sex marriage? Oppositional defiance, take your meds.
Go to church regularly? Religious mania, take your meds.
Don’t like Obama’s policies? Racism is a reflection of paranoia or depression, take your meds.
Pro-life? Obviously you don’t like women, take your meds.
Full disclosure here. I’ve been battling with anxiety problems my whole life. That anxiety is usually expressed by shortness of breath, which has plagued me since I was 17 years old. I’ve been to a fair number of therapists, doctors, and psychs about it, and in April of this year, I had a debilitating panic attack that was so extreme the troopers were involved (no violence, I was just breaking down in the middle of the street) and I had to take several days off of work.
The clinic immediately gave me Lorazepam, which was as close as I’ve gotten in the past 30 years to psychedelic drugs. Then it was off to Fairbanks, where someone I didn’t know sat down with me for 45 minutes and concluded that I needed Zoloft to deal with a chronic mental issue which I had not been able to handle. I didn’t like the idea but I took the Zoloft.
The next month was literally a fog. Sometimes it would be as if my waking life was a dream. Yes, my shortness of breath vanished, as did dreaming, libido, focus, and imagination. Sadly, there were moments when I would snap at people in an angry manner, something that I had never done. And as the Zoloft took hold, the anxiety was replaced by depression and thoughts of suicide.
So I quit the Zoloft, carefully, since I had read online about bad withdrawal. Then it was over, and my mind returned. The anxiety was still there.
My neighbors, who attend a nondenominational evangelical church, talked with me one day on the street, and I explained my time with anxiety, something that I suspect they knew after being around me for 15 years. So my neighbor and her daughter stood next to me and said a prayer for the peace of God to lift the burden from my heart.
The shortness of breath disappeared. It has not returned.
To describe this as a miracle is not hyperbole. I’ve had this problem for 43 years, and it is gone.
Of course, there’s this scientific guy in part of mind dissecting this miracle. I can still feel the anxiety building up in my chest sometimes. I bite my lip now, something that I have never done before - classic displacement behavior. But the labored breaths are gone.
The two methods face each other - a lifetime of medical practice, and a moment of prayer. The prayer was what was needed all along.
I’m still recovering, but facing God as I do so, and that has made all the difference. Better than Zoloft, too.
>>>I believe Jung said that most mental problems are spiritual in nature.<<<
See my post.
Beautiful!
I too have problem with anxiety, though not as severe as yours. When I stay prayerful, Grateful, and loving it does not occur.
Mrs. D, thank you. You nailed it. G-F
Red,
thank you for your testimony.
G-F
Um.
A bit Pollyanna-ish.
The practice has moved from recognizing mental illness to accepting it as real and courageous with the cure being mutilation of the the afflicted’s sexual organs.
That’s one example of how it’s got so much better over the past few decades.
Next time you see a kid fall out a tree and break his leg, we can stand over him and pray. No need to set it, or for pain meds. We will simply let the Lord fix it.
Sorry the Zoloft didn’t work for you. I’ve been taking it for 4 years to deal with anxiety and it’s like night and day for me.
Thanks for the ping. I appreciated your comments and redpoll’s testimony.
Next time I see a kid fall out of a tree and break his leg, I will remind him that he was told not to climb that tree, because he will fall and break his leg.
Then I will tell the kid to drink about 6 shots of Wild Turkey, and when he's feeling no pain, I'll set the break, splint it, and tell his mom she owes me a fifth of whiskey.
No digital record keeping, no medical coding and billing some insurance company so they can, in turn, go and bilk taxpayers of hundreds of billions, and in the end the kid learns to listen to an adult, maybe... or at the least that there are consequences and real suffering when you don't.
Whiskey... is a gift from God.
Can I get an Amen?
I eventually graduated to Effexor after the SSRIs pooped out. Keep it in mind for the future in case needed.
Amen!
Amen!
Or you just leave him splinted and drunk.....as a warning to other kids who might want to climb a tree.
Phycology is not a true science.
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