Posted by bulldog2 on March 26, 2007, at 9:23:24
In reply to Re: Mind Is Awakening After ll Years, posted by jonathanupr on March 26, 2007, at 0:47:30
To set one thing straight anxiety can kill. It leads to high blood pressure and has many bad effects on the body. I also believe it depletes the brain and can lead to depression.
People have always suffered from mental maladies. As noted above people smoke and drink and some take illegal drugs for their moods. This has always been so. Narcotics used to be sold over the counter in America before all the drug laws. I read a book that estimated in the early 1900's over a million people medicated with over the counter opiates. Because they were cheap these people did not look like addicts and were just like any other middle class citizens. They were productive but needed their opiates.
Now we enter the modern era. These drugs are illegal and we're told smoking and drinking are bad. I'm not so sure moderate social drinking is so bad. Read about some guy who died at 116 and he had a drink of vodka every day. The medical establishment has determined that their medicines are far better for our mental conditions. SSRIS are given out like candy for depression, anxiety, ptsd etc. Usually they cause so much anxiety you need benzos or more if your already on them. Pharmaceutical companies push these drugs because there's big money in them.
So here we are in the year 2007. Are these new psychotropic meds really better than the opiates and the cocaine laced coca cola of the early 1900;s. Or a couple beers after work to kill the tension?
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