Is Health care for depression a bunch of nonsense?

Question

I mean they don't know anything about the brain works. They think antidepressants work but they can't prove that. ALL placebo studies that were done correctly have shown no effect of depression remission from antidepressants. They really don't know if a depressed person has too much of this chemical or too little of this. Talk therapy is like talking to a wall that you pay for. I'm sorry if I sound arrogant..but I can prove all these things. I have had depressive episodes for 15 years and while I will have times of normal mood..in general it is only getting worse. Why don't they tell us the truth about depression treatment.?.is it because the drug companies are the one's they have to answer to. fuzzy numbers and stats.. I wouldn't be suprised..i think the buisness of depression care has become a crooked buisness...anyone agree?

DME I've seen at least 12 different therapists and many shrinks as well

Answer 1

Tom Cruise, when did you get on-line?

In all seriousness, there are few actual cures for depression; however, most of the treatments try to mitigate it and make it manageable. It works for many people, but cures few.

Depression is a lifelong endeavor for most of its sufferers. Therefore management becomes essential. That's what the medical community does.

Don't look for a cure. Yet. But don't discount the health care providers that are helping with management.

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Answer 2

Western Medicine treats symptoms, not the root. How do you "heal" someone whether it's emotional or physical if all you are doing is masking the symptoms?
I have tried seven or eight different antidepressants over the last 25 years and never found the kind of relief I knew had to be out there. It was usually a feeling of indifference, no longer a feeling of depression, but total apathy. Therapy is not something I was ever able to connect with either. Some people has said that I just didn't find the "right one" and that I should keep looking. It felt a bit futile to be honest. I have an aunt who introduced me to the nutritional/herbal side of treatments and found a bit of help with that... St Johns Wort is good, but didn't really "do it" for my needs. DL-Phenylalanine (DLPA) works for me, but it wears off within the day, something of a roller coaster then. Totally revamping nutrition has been really helpful but the single one thing that I have found that I am totally impressed with in regards to mood is Lycium Barbarum, commonly known as goji. I drink about 4 ounces a day and I've not felt this good since I was in my early teens (I'm 42). It's worth checking out, for sure.

Good Luck

Answer 3

In many ways you are correct. Our knowledge of the specific workings of the brain are very incomplete at this point in time. So yes, there is some speculation and misrepresentation in certain treatments.

However, from a science standpoint, it is accepted that our knowledge of the brain will only improve with time, and eventually we will have much more solid solutions. In order for us to progress, there is going to be a lot of trial and error. So it is a good thing that scientists and psychologists keep trying different ideas, because eventually those will lead us to more answers.

And plus, for those of us stuck in the present, you might say that a drug that may or may not work is still better than no drug at all. This of course must be tempered with keeping an eye out for potentially damaging treatments or expensive frauds, but for someone in desperate pain you do your best.

Answer 4

First thing anyone with depression should look at is their diet. Is there a food causing a toxic reaction? There are so many chemicals in the food we eat that the body was not designed to digest. Would a doctor even look for food as the cause of an emotional issue?

We have to remember that doctors make nothing when we are healthy so it is just bad business on their part to help us get well. Pop another pill that may react with the other pills and they can keep upgrading their cars, boats and homes for years. I think the entire medical profession is crooked!

Answer 5

Yes, I have had depression for at least 15 years and I think it is all guess work. I believe the drug companies have a financial stake in keeping all sick people on drugs. I stopped taking them about 5 years ago and am doing better sometimes but no worse. Some cause the problem. If you stop DO IT SLOWLY or you could have serious problems. Have your doctor take you off. Go on the Internet and get Dr. Lorraine Day's video, about $13 to $15 titled "You Can't Improve on God." Dr. Day cured herself of cancer using the methods found in the Bible. She came to deaths door but refused Chemo (poison) and radiation (destruction). Unprocessed fruits, (they are more costly than processed, another conspiracy) vegetables, air, water, Sunshine, exercising, reading spiritually uplifting books (not necessarily the Bible). Read self improvement books on self esteem etc.. Join a support group or start one. Watch positive, uplifting TV, nothing with a victim in it, comedy (laughter is good for you). Good luck.

Answer 6

Yes I agree with you. Insuch health care in general is a business. every ailment is defined as a disease and given a name so there can be a drug that would be made to cure it. you can't get this said drug until you go to the doctor who would prescribe it, and the Dr. wouldn't prescribe until you've got insurance. so health care is such an organized business. it is mainly for profit, nothing else. the drug companies have their share in it, the doctors have their share in it, so are the insurance companies. the drugs for depression might be doing more harm than good but who would tell u that? the drug companies? the doctors? NO. So the patients are the ones left to suffer-financially and otherwise.

Answer 7

I don't agree. You can have good therapy if the therapist is compatible with you and you are a cooperative and curious individual with healing on the mind.

The pills though.... Well.... I'd steer clear, but that's just me. Not that they can't help some people, it's just better to try not to introduce new things to a system unless it's absolutely necessary for the person to live, otherwise there are eventual negative consequences.

But you and I disagree about therapy.

Answer 8

Over the last five years I had begun to have increasingly withdraw into a downward spiral of depression..

But now with the method I can fully focus my energy and thoughts into a decisive line on how to make my life better constantly. And it works like magic! I'm beginning to attract people to me once again and things have just been looking up since then.

Helping you eliminate depression?

Answer 9

I heard about this earlier today. I don't know too much about it, but I am intrigued. http://www.greatbrain.com/index.htm

I think it makes sense. Not every disorder is due to a chemical imbalance, but rather to ways the brain functions. I am not a big supporter of drugs, because I know it is just a business. My husband has some mental health issues and I just see no improvement in him, tons of docs and meds later. I am convinced we need to start seeing neurologists, not psychiatrists. Good luck.

Answer 10

Doctors never want to admit they don't know everything. And something is better than nothing.

So in your case maybe it is incurable. I am sorry no one has been able to cure you but talk therapy is nothing like talking to a wall. The fact that you describe it that way tells me you have never tried it.

Then you know very well that it is nothing like talking to a wall. So why did you say it?