Posted by Huxley on June 20, 2010, at 19:22:12
In reply to Re: Rejection of Meds Gives me Hope » Conundrum, posted by chujoe on June 20, 2010, at 12:44:29
> I have a question for the anti-med folks here & I ask it in all sincerity because I would like to know & I'm trying to understand where you're coming from. I asked this on the social board, but nobody responded, so maybe no one is interested, but I'll try again here, since it is a question about medication.
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> If you were diagnosed with lung or colon cancer & your oncologist told you that without treatment you had maybe a year to live, would you be willing to undergo chemotherapy, knowing, as your doctor would surely tell you, that the various drug "cocktails" used are toxic to your immune system and might not work or might leave you with permanent physical and mental deficits? And also knowing that the various combinations of drugs are often used in a trial and error manner to see which patient responds to which combination?
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> I ask this, obviously, because I see an analogy between cancer drugs and psych drugs -- some are destructive for some people, some don't work, when used in combinations there is little clear clinical evidence on which to design the cocktail, etc. Still, using chemo & using psych drugs leads to remission in some patients.Hi Chujoe you raise a good point.
Lets just keep using cancer as the analogy.
I have been experiencing symptoms of a disease.
A doctor has diagnosed me with Cancer and given me some serious medications to treat my illness.10 years later after suffering terrible side effects from the medications for my cancer, I discover that my doctor was pretty much guessing about my cancer and that there is no evidence that I even have cancer apart from my own symptoms.
What is more, is that the medication they have been giving me seems to be causing troubles and maybe even making the cancer worse. At this stage I attempt to stop the medications only to discover that after 10 years of there use, they have so altered my brain structure that quitting them is next to impossible. I was never warned about this.
Is it possible that for those who had this cancer would have followed a much better path to recovery if the drugs wern't introduced.
The answer is yes and no. Some people I truly believe have had their lives ruined by psychiatry. Others that perhaps may have commited suicide without some sort of medication and here I guess you can say it's use is justified.
But how many have commited suicide because of psychiatry?I know that I have gotten myself into very agiatated states from psych meds.
If the meds are truly improving your quality of life then I think it is justified.
I know people exist in a state of med induced bliss. But I think they are few and far between (just going of ancedotal evidence here)
Most people seem to be endlessly searching for the cure, and when they find it, it only lasts a short period of time and they are back to the drawing board.Meds have worked for me, temporarily and each time I have slid back to my equilibrium. My brain seems to be able to compensate for the changes that the meds make.
So I am left with the side effects.
I hope that this helps you understand where I am from coming from a little bit.
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