Posted by yxibow on February 26, 2007, at 0:36:20
In reply to Do Meds Really Help You? Pharmacist says don't wor, posted by Phillipa on February 25, 2007, at 12:57:45
> My pharmacist upset me yesterday. Said that the psychotropic meds don't really work that people have unrealistic expectations of life. I think this is wrong. Any comments? Love Phillipa as an example people do get better and leave babble don't they?
That's a rather generalized statement about medications from your pharmacist. I'd be very suspicious about the background of such a pharmacist and not visit them for prescriptions but that's just my view.
A pharmacist is there to explain how medications work, to check drug interactions if they have knowledge of all your medications and warn you of problems and rarely to report abuse potential if they see red flag warnings like lots of C-II and C-III medications coming from the same doctor. And to be pleasant and ask how you are doing. And that's really it.
We've had so many discussions about whether psychotropic medications "work"; we've beaten dead horses, rhinoceroses, dragons, and other creatures defined under UN conventions about this subject.
You take out of life what you give it; life doesn't have expectations except that somehow most of all our organs work together to some degree and we manage as humans in a life cycle that has some defined parts and if you are lucky enough to live in a free society, defined parts and responsibilities as well.
A medication is a tool, psychotropic medications are only as good as what we can get out of them to better our lives. Bettering lives also requires hard work, and after five years I can tell you it definately is so.Do people leave babble ? Maybe quite so, who knows -- some people don't seem to have a defined disorder but post or lurk on here, some definately have a defined disorder, and some probably are in remission from one. A chemical inbalance is inherent yet will change over the course of life just as our body changes.
People come to babble for lots of reasons, a number of people come because as "consumers" (and that is the current NAMI term for a patient) don't have the best information or health care providers so they seek help from others who may have better situations. There are lots of walking wounded out there in the millions who suffer from depression; I forget if it was Time or Newsweek who recently published an article about men and depression -- there is a stigma about admitting to something that is somehow un-manly to have. These are the people who are not on babble -- they either are so well cured off that they don't feel the need to chat or kid themselves into thinking they can manage things themselves. And maybe some people can be their own psychiatrist. But that's a difficult proposal.
-- tidingsJay
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