My stance on antidepressants is that they help some while harm others. The right antidepressant can ease your mind while a wrong one will wreck it. You just have to try them out to determine for yourself.
The Mental Health Watchdog, a service of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), describes ANTIDEPRESSANTS are mind-altering and potentially lethal psychiatric drugs designed to treat illnesses not yet proved by any medical means.
When they don't work, you are setting yourself up for worsening of your current symptoms: suicidal ideation, insomnia, headache, anxiety and add other symptoms to your problems.
For those who become fearful and take off, Drug Withdrawal Syndrome may catches up to them. For mothers to be and new moms who must care for a baby, the effects of these drugs on the baby is unimaginable. If adverse drugs side effects are hard to manage by the mother, how will she care for her baby? The job of motherhood has bestowed on a woman. What risks are women willing to take?
Still, any advocate to advise on saying NO to antidepressants, is irresponsible. Nobody can decide for others about their risks. Similarly, pharmaceutical companies purposefully convince consumers to choose the drugs they advertise. They persuade customers to say YES. In either case, these are blanket claims for a worldwide of individual problems. It doesn't take much to see the invalidity of either of these projections. Healthcare is an individual choice. Decisions must be made case by case.
I hate when people are too extreme. Aren't they tired?
ReplyDeleteExtremists are everywhere arguing about every issue.
ReplyDeleteDon't talk if you have no experience about anythign.
ReplyDeleteStop listening to experts and bystanders nonsense.
ReplyDeleteYou know it when you hear it.
ReplyDeleteWill there be a time when mental illnesses will be prevented and cured?
ReplyDeleteIt is everyone's mission. For that to happen we must transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, not through debates and criticism.
To pave the way for prevention, recovery and cure, a clear mission must be laid out.
It will be difficult to fulfill this vital mission. It takes innovative thinking and novel scientific perspectives. How fast will discovery in neuroscience come? The evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience must be fostered every step of the way. Breakthroughs in science can become breakthroughs for all people with mental illnesses.
Trung, that is unlikely to happen until the time people from different perspective will sit down and listen to one another with open ears. At this time, everyone is talking, no one listens.
ReplyDeleteDoctors and researchers think they know best, patients think they are hopeless. I hope that genetics testings will give us the answers.