Why won't doctors stop bandaging emotional outcomes with pills and help resolve the actual problems we face?

Question

I struggle with learning, but instead of having some guidance, I'm prescribed meds because I'm upset that the problem is just completely ignored.

Answer 1

Instead of saying, okay, let's do this. You're happy and it's resolved. Instead, they'd rather say, "Oh, don't worry about it. Take a pill and forget about it." Hello!!! Problem still there!

By your way of thinking, Heyjay, I vote YOU become a doctor and change the concept of actually helping people. Patients will be happy, grateful and issues will minimize.

Answer 2

I'd say a few reasons are there (I'm sure I didn't think of some):

1) Drugs work quickly and are easy. Most patients won't change their lifestyle significantly, or can't for some reason.

2) Some people's problems WILL NOT respond adequately to therapy, because there is a brain abnormality.

3) It takes less time to prescribe a pill than to go thru a list of lifestyle changes (I think docs should give out handouts, personally).

4) Drs see people suffering and want to help. The pills do help quickly (as I said in #1)

5) Aggressive marketing by drug companies makes it easy for a doc outside his/her expertise to misprescribe pills for more minor conditions that WOULD do better with counseling/other interventions. A specialist is far less likely to do this.

6) Health care plans limit counseling/educational interventions so much that they may be useless.

You can research your condition on the internet and see what lifestyle changes you can make or what advice/counseling/training you can get to deal with it better. There are a lot of other people online who are giving helpful information. You can get books at the library. You have to sort the bogus information from the good information, tho, so start with a site like WebMD or Mayo Clinic, and click on links on those pages.

Answer 3

First of all, seeing a doctor for a learning disability is your first mistake. Seeking out the right academic help is necessary, such as tutoring or finding out exactly what the disability is and working with it.

Second, doctors are drug whores. They make lots of money prescribing drugs to patients. Don't think so? You should have seen the doctors "conference" in Hawaii I witnessed a few years back. It was completely financed by a drug company, all expenses paid at the best resort on the island.

In my opinion, doctors, unless they have adequate psychological training and experience, should never prescribe any psychotropic drugs. But, because the AMA is a very powerful entity in this country and is really out of control, doctors of any speciality can prescribe just about anything, which is insane. That is like saying that just because a mechanic knows the ins and outs of a car that he can manufacture one. Nope, doesn't work.

Seek out help through the school system for evaluation for the learning disability and then get proper help on how to deal with it. Be an advocate for yourself too, read about it, search out information, talk to people with experience and deal with it in a positive way. Good luck!

Answer 4

Dr's can do two things for an illness. They can operate or they can give a pill. Maybe a therapist is the answer for you. I wish I had a better answer for you. I think everyone with the anguish of mental confusion wonders what is wrong with the system.

Answer 5

It amazes me how one can even become a doctor with no heart in the matter. It's m.o.n.e... that's y.
I guess it takes too long to say, "Here, see if this works" or explain it in simple terms when it only takes them a few seconds to write a prescription, so your problem with be emotionally minimzed.

Answer 6

It's all about the money.