Do you think Americans depend too much on Antidepressants? (depression, diet, psychiatric)
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At times I feel as though they do. Yet, I would call myself a hypocrite as I just got my first prescription for anxiety a couple of days ago. A doctor had prescribed me this medicine at the beginning of the year and I was just too ashamed and in denial to actually have this prescription filled up until Monday.
I'm still in guilt about taking my medication, partly because I know that people have it worse off than me and they live without psychiatric medical assistance; I should be able to as well.
If people made it through slavery, the Great Depression and the 60's revolution without the help of medication, then I should be able to as well.
Although, part of me says that I truly do need to take anxiety medication as I have suffered from anxiety since I can remember. I had to almost repeat a grade in elementary school as I would always skip school because of anxiety.
I'm now in my early 20's and am trying to change. It's just unfortunate how I have to depend on some synthetic substance to make me feel better.
I think doctors rely too much on prescribing things to alleviate symptoms, instead of looking for cures. Because they can keep on prescribing medications, which requires an office visit, which means a sum deposited in their account. If they cure the person, and they don't have to come back, then they don't get any more money from the person.
Yes. When we were kids, the doctor gave out dums-dums when we left the office instead of a handful of prescriptions but then, we ate right, exercised and had a relatively clean conscious. Maybe they just need the dum-dum tree and some kind words? Seriously, has anyone seen the reports of all the drugs in the drinking water that aren't flushed out. Medication Nation! Too much of everything!
I think we are much too quick to medicate instead of useing therapy to teach people how to cope with their issues. Anxiety however is often caused by a chemical imballance so medication is often apropriate & effective.
Often times though medication is prescribed to help a person ignore things they should be working to change. IMO anyway.
At times I feel as though they do. Yet, I would call myself a hypocrite as I just got my first prescription for anxiety a couple of days ago. A doctor had prescribed me this medicine at the beginning of the year and I was just too ashamed and in denial to actually have this prescription filled up until Monday.
I'm still in guilt about taking my medication, partly because I know that people have it worse off than me and they live without psychiatric medical assistance; I should be able to as well.
If people made it through slavery, the Great Depression and the 60's revolution without the help of medication, then I should be able to as well.
Although, part of me says that I truly do need to take anxiety medication as I have suffered from anxiety since I can remember. I had to almost repeat a grade in elementary school as I would always skip school because of anxiety.
I'm now in my early 20's and am trying to change. It's just unfortunate how I have to depend on some synthetic substance to make me feel better.
No.
Do you also think diabetics should be ashamed to take a "synthetic substance", insulin, to "feel better"? Depression, like diabetes, is an illness. Willpower can't change brain chemistry nor the hormone production of the islets of Langerhans. Antidepressants, like synthetic insulin, save lives.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 02-24-2011 at 07:35 AM..
As Ive stated before: Prayin, church and therapy or warm chicken soup aint gonna help. Look at the people at WalMart all of them are on somekind of antidepressant, neuroleptic, benzo, barb, opiate or diet pill. No big deal!
I think doctors rely too much on prescribing things to alleviate symptoms, instead of looking for cures. Because they can keep on prescribing medications, which requires an office visit, which means a sum deposited in their account. If they cure the person, and they don't have to come back, then they don't get any more money from the person.
Erm..no.
The doctor who sees you in his office and prescribes medicine, is not the doctor who is in a lab researching a cure. It's a different person. It is ALSO not the doctor who is developing a treatment medication. That is yet another person.
If the doctor who sees you in the office, was busy looking for a cure, then he'd have no time to see you in his office. Different people perform different functions. The people looking for cures need funding, and they're not getting it. The people looking for treatments need funding, and they are getting it. The people who see you in their office need funding, and get it from you and your insurance company. Neither you nor your insurance company are giving a red cent to the people who are looking for a cure. However, you DO pay the pharmaceutical company that makes your treatment through your own pocket and your insurance.
If you want a cure for the ailment, then give money to the research organizations that are looking for the cure.
At times I feel as though they do. Yet, I would call myself a hypocrite as I just got my first prescription for anxiety a couple of days ago. A doctor had prescribed me this medicine at the beginning of the year and I was just too ashamed and in denial to actually have this prescription filled up until Monday.
I'm still in guilt about taking my medication, partly because I know that people have it worse off than me and they live without psychiatric medical assistance; I should be able to as well.
If people made it through slavery, the Great Depression and the 60's revolution without the help of medication, then I should be able to as well.
Although, part of me says that I truly do need to take anxiety medication as I have suffered from anxiety since I can remember. I had to almost repeat a grade in elementary school as I would always skip school because of anxiety.
I'm now in my early 20's and am trying to change. It's just unfortunate how I have to depend on some synthetic substance to make me feel better.
Americans DO depend on Anti-depressants, but our hectic lifestyles dictate it.
And there is also a direct correlation between this and the fact that we now have an obese population.
The only hectic thing in Montana is an angry moose.
As a "fatty", I totally agree. I wasn't fat or take antidepressants when I was a SAHM. Now... sheesh.
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