by mateo222 » Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:35 am
Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:I suggest you stay away from anti-depressant pills. Have seen them "at work" on an old friend making his mood change with the winds.
It doesn't solve the underlying issue, and can make you worse in the long run.
By all means, talk with a person who understands. The environment you live in is often a dampener. Consider a change. If possible, live closer to nature.
With all due respect to those with the above opinion, I could not disagree more strongly. I was raised in rural farm country in the middle west and told both subtly and directly that mental illness is more or less a "character problem" (for sissies), and that people claiming such were essentially lazy, weak etc. Once my anxiety disorder came, i was given the same advice the author above is giving about medication, "it will make your problem worse." Out of FEAR for "making my problem worse" or "becoming addicted" i foreclosed the one thing that, in the end, saved my life, medication. I lost over a decade of my life, isolated, friendless, miserable and suicidal. And it's not that i did not try many of the popular ideas out there, including seeing a string of psychologists, diet, natural remedies, exercise, yoga. I almost did not make it.
I agree that meds may not be appropriate for everyone, and I agree they don't work for everyone, but they saved my life. It fixed the PHYSICAL ILLNESS in my brain, or i should say it fixes the problem in my brain, for the past 6 years. Blanket advice like this is dangerous and respectfully, it is anti-intellectual. We believe in science, not as a cure all, but we believe in what we can prove more than superstition, religion etc. INdeed this anti medication movement or school of thought reminds of the religious nuts who think the world was created 7000 years ago. Science teaches us that mental illness is often just the same as a physical illness or a wound, just as much as Pnuemonia or a broken arm. Scaring people from medication is not only anti-science but it is dangerous, people die without the help medication gives. Please stop trying to scare people with these "all or nothing" opinions, medication is not everything, but it needs to be one of the tools to help save peoples lives.....
Best
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[quote="Don-Pierre de Plume"]I suggest you stay away from anti-depressant pills. Have seen them "at work" on an old friend making his mood change with the winds.
It doesn't solve the underlying issue, and can make you worse in the long run.
By all means, talk with a person who understands. The environment you live in is often a dampener. Consider a change. If possible, live closer to nature.[/quote]
With all due respect to those with the above opinion, I could not disagree more strongly. I was raised in rural farm country in the middle west and told both subtly and directly that mental illness is more or less a "character problem" (for sissies), and that people claiming such were essentially lazy, weak etc. Once my anxiety disorder came, i was given the same advice the author above is giving about medication, "it will make your problem worse." Out of FEAR for "making my problem worse" or "becoming addicted" i foreclosed the one thing that, in the end, saved my life, medication. I lost over a decade of my life, isolated, friendless, miserable and suicidal. And it's not that i did not try many of the popular ideas out there, including seeing a string of psychologists, diet, natural remedies, exercise, yoga. I almost did not make it.
I agree that meds may not be appropriate for everyone, and I agree they don't work for everyone, but they saved my life. It fixed the PHYSICAL ILLNESS in my brain, or i should say it fixes the problem in my brain, for the past 6 years. Blanket advice like this is dangerous and respectfully, it is anti-intellectual. We believe in science, not as a cure all, but we believe in what we can prove more than superstition, religion etc. INdeed this anti medication movement or school of thought reminds of the religious nuts who think the world was created 7000 years ago. Science teaches us that mental illness is often just the same as a physical illness or a wound, just as much as Pnuemonia or a broken arm. Scaring people from medication is not only anti-science but it is dangerous, people die without the help medication gives. Please stop trying to scare people with these "all or nothing" opinions, medication is not everything, but it needs to be one of the tools to help save peoples lives.....
Best
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