Posted by 10derheart on December 21, 2011, at 3:51:24
Listening to a late night talk show and the host takes a call from one woman who, for some reason I never quite grasped, is adamantly against any service members returning from deployments in Iraq/Afghanistan, etc., suffering from depression, PTSD, etc., taking *any* psych meds whatsoever, no matter what. She said **all** these meds do 100% harm and no good - ever. She wants them to re-balance their lives and use only natural medicine (nothing wrong with that at all...but why throw way the other tool in the toolbox) Host tried to question her a little but her cell died. So he challenged folks to call in who had been helped by psych meds. After a while, a couple did, but then there were more odd calls...
When the host was talking with one man who complained that his GP gave him some "stuff" a couple years back that made him feel worse, and off, but then later rx'd Klonopin, which he still takes and which helps. he said he now cuts his Klonopin doses in half as he doesn't need as much. The host then discussed how this was dangerous and he shouldn't ever do that, or drink coffee with his Klonopin, because, "Klonopin is Valium." Uh-huh...thank you pdoc-host [not].<<sigh>>
If I have a point, it's that I hear lay people just ramble on making all sorts of connections and assertions and pronouncements about MI and the drugs to treat it, speaking with an air of authority, or they make sweeping generalizations and hold them forth as proof and evidence. It's still on, and now a caller asserts too many people look only to pills to solve everything and he knows this as a doc rx'd him a powerful painkiller after major surgery and he almost got hooked on it. He "never needed this" but took it for 2 months, off and on. I did not get the connection with overuse of psych drugs...not really. Again, a legit problem and a worthy topic but the leaps in logic are...distressing.
It's just discouraging that people in general are so fast and loose with facts, research, and so forth. Mental health issues are so misunderstood anyway, then you add in some of this other stuff, I dunno....the whole show just dismayed me.
MDD (presently in complete remission); ADD-Inattentive type; mild anxiety (not fomally dx'd)
Meds: Strattera 80 mg q day
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