Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

I still don't believe in the power of drugs. You realize that over the long term they literally reshape your brain. It's like crude brain surgery from a half blind surgeon, or trying to cut down trees by throwing tomahawks. It's to inexact to risk permanent change(which could lead to brain damage).

IE. If you don't like what the pills do to you a few years down the line. Tough ****, they've already done it.

I mean, just because you start taking the latest psyche drug, and it makes you feel good, doesn't mean it's always smart. I mean, to me, Abilify is just the much weaker form of Lithium, which is not known to have the most positive effects on the human brain in the long run.

Sansa Stark

Tore is right, Skaligojurah. Mental illness is just that, an illness. When you are ill you can't be better unless you take something to make you so. Your brain is not going to organically fix itself. Taking psychiatric medicine is not like crude brain surgery and should never feel as such, if it does you have obviously not been put on the right medications. I suggest doing some research into medications and have a chance to make your life better or suffer, it's your choice.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Eh, honestly, when I get sick I usually just eat fresh fruit, juice, and lay down for a bit. I notice that with this philosophy I get the flu far less often, and far less severely than those who are cramming anti-biotics down their throats.

I don't believe 100% in nature, but I'd rather the natural course of things control my body, than some drug. Now, if I had a very very serious disease, and there was no alternative, yes I'd take antibotics. One time when I was a child I had this miserable flu(last really major one I would have in my life), and had a temprature that registered at 104. Then, it made sense. Since, though, I don't go running to the drug store unless I'm 100% sure.

As for severe mental illness. It's too easy to get diagnosed, and it's too easy to convince a doctor to increase your dosage. It's very rarely that you'll be fully in competent hands with a doctor who has the means to properly diagnose, and as said, to be careful with drugs.

There is a lot of historical fact of the negative side effects of riddlin, lithium, etc. drugs considered to be miracle drugs, and frankly... Years later they end up having these severe side effects, but they're already in circulation, and improperly diagnosed at such a rate that they're systematic.

Again, it's like trying to cut down trees with tomahawks. Unless you're of the really wealthy, you will not get a psychiatrist who can properly analyze, and diagnose. Most cases, you'll get somebody who practices many fields, and has too many patients to focus on an individualistic case. There are better means to sort out your psychological issues. Most of them are external.

As somebody who has been plagued with a real very serious illness, I'm speaking 100% from personal experience here. Medical science is a wonderful thing but it's not without flaw. There is no reason why one must risk his, or her brain on something that may just permanently reshape it.

What about ten years from now? I mean, after all, heroine junkies feel pretty happy when they first start, right (In fact, it's probably a million times more potent than anything you'll get over the counter)? Psyche drugs are no different. If the drug hasn't been out for 10 years, there's no way you can prove that there isn't some adverse negative effect on the long term, and due to the fact we're a quick fix society, we already start diagnosing these drugs in excess without even thinking twice of any viable alternate solution.

s_k

So does dying .
Don't get me wrong, I'm completely against drugs up to a certain point where nothing else helps.
I know some people who would have killed themselves a long time ago hadn't it been for the right medication.
I don't do any meds myself by the way. Probably shoud, I don't know.

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