Posted by linkadge on September 29, 2002, at 11:50:35
In reply to Why ADs don’t work on Sad Puppy Dog and others..., posted by Arthur Gibson on September 29, 2002, at 6:33:15
From a religious standpoint, yes in order
to make a proper recovery one must confront
and release all hatred towards people
that you have had. From a biblical standpoint
love is the master emotion, hate will never
beat anybody but yourself.
In other words If you're a assasin and
are becoming depressed because of what you're
doing then you need to change your lifestyle.THe problem is that, if you need to take a psychiatric drug to confront the source of
the problem, then that means, after you discover
it you can quit the drug right? Wrong.Depression does not listen to logic of any kind.
For instance, an AIDs patient does not get better
after learning their immune system is under attack.The problem is that there are hundreds of brain chemicals, and just as one responds better to the Norepinephrine side of things, so will somebody else to some yet undescovered chemical.
I fell into the trap of the excorcist mentality too. After two weeks on my first trial of Celexa, I thought God had healed me (an in a way he had),
stopped the meds abruptly and relapsed back deeper than before.I believe the meds help you get a better sence of what normal is. If hate and bitterness can respond to a drug then certainly that hate cannot be demonic.
The reason antidepressants work is that they enable you to do the things that make you feel
good about yourself.
With me, I feel more like helping others, donating to charity, and excercising, all the
things that naturally make me feel better about myself. People ask, is it you? or is it the drug?
Well it's both.
- I knew I was getting better when I started
to want to fix all the things I had broken.
(relationships, health, attitude etc)So in responce, I do think that people need
to set things straight in there life, but by
no means are these things the source of their
depression. So if somebody is a assasin, then they're probably chemically imballenced in
the first place. You help there brain, then
you might just help them too.Some people think they can use these drugs to squelch out the need for god, religion etc.
But I beleive any mentally healthy person
knows a god exists. I beleive the mentally
unhealthy know he exists even more. Without
pain we have no compassion.Linkadge
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