meds meds meds... MEDS ARE THE ANSWER TO EVERYHING. folks... meds arent the answer.?

Question

i could ask a question on here like ...my 5 year old is scared of the dark and guaranteed 3 people would tell me to put her on meds (along with a list of recomendations).

meds arent the answer because their negatives outweigh their positives.

Answer 1

I understand your concern. I think some people get overmedicated or inappropriately treated with meds. I think with most mild or moderate emotional problems it's best to try other methods (yoga, exercise, dietary change, therapist, spiritual practices, etc.) before plugging into chemicals.

HOWEVER ...

There are certain mental health conditions that do require acute medical interventions. I've seen plenty of patients with acute psychosis, mania or depression literally have their lives saved by medicine, where no other intervention known to mankind is otherwise known to help them. It is because these extreme cases are MEDICAL events, not just psychological problems. The body chemistry is causing the problem and needs to be adjusted. Someone who has been tortured for years often has a complete remission of symptoms in a matter of weeks on the right med.

Scotty, who posted below, is dangerously incorrect when he claims: "There's no scientific basis for the chemical imbalance theory." There's no such thing as this theory. Chemical imbalances are a proven scientific FACT. He should go to medical school or take some pre-med courses to educate himself.

As far as the cost-benefit ratio you mention:

I would much rather see someone taking antipsychotic agents and suffering "cotton mouth" and some lethargy, than to watch them diving out of a 5 story window because no one could reason them out of a strong conviction they could fly.

Or worse: Homicidal impulses born of hallucinations often will not abate without chemical intervention. Murders and murder-suicides are likely prevented by med intervention. So I think your argument has some merit, but cannot be reasonably applied to all situations.

One more mention: Typically anti-depressants are the saving grace in people with severe clinical depression. Ideally, the person gets medicine as well as therapy though. And then ideally just therapy. After that, the best case scenario is they can leave therapy and live a relatively normal life.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I completely agree with you. There's no scientific basis for the chemical imbalance theory, and psychiatric drugs are very dangerous and have caused countless deaths.

Psychiatrists claim that a person “needs” a drug to combat their “chemical imbalance” in the brain which is causing a person’s “mental disorder.” However, the concept that a brain-based, chemical imbalance underlies mental illness is false. While popularized by heavy public marketing, it is simply psychiatric wishful thinking. As with all of psychiatry’s disease models, it has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.

Diabetes is a biochemical imbalance. However, as Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen states, “the definitive test and biochemical imbalance is a high blood sugar balance level. Treatment in severe cases is insulin injections, which restore sugar balance. The symptoms clear and retest shows the blood sugar is normal. Nothing like a sodium imbalance or blood sugar imbalance exists for depression or any other psychiatric syndrome.”

In 1996, psychiatrist David Kaiser said, “...modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness...Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”

According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, "antipsychotic" drugs alone have killed 100,000 Americans, and anti-depressants increase the risk of violent or suicidal behavior. Here is what investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, author of the groundbreaking book Mad In America had to say about how dangerous psychiatric drugs are:

We have a form of care where we're using these drugs in an ever more expansive manner, and supposedly we have better drugs and they're the cornerstone of our care, so we should see decreasing disability rates. That's what your expectation would be.

Instead, from 1987 until the present, we saw an increase in the number of mentally disabled people from 3.3 million people to 5.7 million people in the United States. In that time, our spending on psychiatric drugs increased to an amazing degree. Combined spending on antipsychotic drugs and antidepressants jumped from around $500 million in 1986 to nearly $20 billion in 2004. So we raise the question: Is the use of these drugs somehow actually fueling this increase in the number of the disabled mentally ill?

When you look at the research literature, you find a clear pattern of outcomes with all these drugs -- you see it with the antipsychotics, the antidepressants, the anti-anxiety drugs and the stimulants like Ritalin used to treat ADHD. All these drugs may curb a target symptom slightly more effectively than a placebo does for a short period of time, say six weeks. An antidepressant may ameliorate the symptoms of depression better than a placebo over the short term.

What you find with every class of these psychiatric drugs is a worsening of the target symptom of depression or psychosis or anxiety over the long term, compared to placebo-treated patients. So even on the target symptoms, there's greater chronicity and greater severity of symptoms. And you see a fairly significant percentage of patients where new and more severe psychiatric symptoms are triggered by the drug itself.

The most obvious case is with the antidepressants. A certain percentage of people placed on the SSRIs because they have some form of depression will suffer either a manic or psychotic attack -- drug-induced. This is well recognized. So now, instead of just dealing with depression, they're dealing with mania or psychotic symptoms. And once they have a drug-induced manic episode, what happens? They go to an emergency room, and at that point they're newly diagnosed. They're now said to be bipolar and they're given an antipsychotic to go along with the antidepressant; and, at that point, they're moving down the path to chronic disability.

Answer 4

Amen...see, doctors make too much money now a days, and they got a name for everything...when your child is going stir crazy in your one room apt, when he SHOULD be outside working in the corn fields and burning off some natural energy, he is called ADD or hyperactive...you never heard of kids having problems like this in the 'good old days"...because they had chores to do, and crops to help with, and animals to feed,etc..now, with the way things are...they are confined to small areas and if they are normal active kids, they are medicated to make some shrink richer...Pray on things and let the Lord lead and guide you...

Answer 5

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Answer 6

So what's your question? And this isn't some talking forum, this is a place to ask questions. So unless you plan on actually asking a question, then get off the computer and get a life. It's sad that you have to try to get people to believe what you think is "right". You and Tom Cruise would have made a GREAT couple.

Answer 7

I agree. I believe that almost all head problems, except for the severe ones, can be solved withou the use of any kind of doctor or medication...It all comes down to this, if you change the way you think, that will change the way you feel.

Answer 8

Of course! they are not the answer for everything.

Who said they are? The doctors put on them only if they are needed. In fact even in cases where they are needed, they start only after much deliberation.

Answer 9

You're right but what's the question? Just if we agree? I wish more people did!

Answer 10

I agree...I went on "meds", and they enabled me to destroy my life at the time...cause I didn't care about anything...seriously...