Posted by San on February 14, 2001, at 19:25:33
In reply to Re: antidepressants are drugs, drugs are drugs, posted by dennis on February 13, 2001, at 22:17:31
> I am sorry if my post upset you. I wasnt really trying to say ADs are bad, I was just stateing my observations or my personal view on drugs and ADs, I take an AD myself and it helps me and I am glad that the drug is available for me to take. I was just trying to make a point, that these drugs are simply drugs, there not any better or worse than anything else, and there is two different ways to think about it, one, that these drugs are fixing a chemical imbalance, two that these drugs are simply drugs and make you feel happier if your lucky and are not fixing any chemical imbalance. I think the more logical choice is option #2. I just thought that most people believe option #1 to be correct, because they dont want to think that there normal depressed drug free state of being is how they were born to live, so there must be some chemical imbalance, I am just saying lets not kid ourselfs, however you feel when your drug free is your normal state of being how nature intended you to be, if you want to take drugs to change how you feel thats fine, there are some people out there that medicate themselves with heroin, and thats ok with me. Maybe you already understand this, maybe I am not saying anything you dont already know, I am just talking what I am thinking, you know it upsets me, the government regulates drugs that it feels are dangerous, marijuana helps me greatly in my life, it helps with my depression and anxiety, but since the government has made it schedule 1 illegal, I cannot grow it myself, I cannot smoke it, and it is extremely difficult for me to get, and I am upset, drugs are drugs, theres no difference between a legal and a illegal drug, there just all drugs, I can give you 100% guarantee that marijuana is far safer than say effexor, but nobody understands that. I am very disapointed in how our society views drugs. I am very young and I have much yet to learn.
>Dennis, honey, are you a little manic????? San
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