Posted by Mariposa on September 9, 2003, at 16:27:25
In reply to Anyone read the new book Mad in America? » adeel, posted by KimberlyDi on September 9, 2003, at 9:59:59
> Who are you? I laugh at your fear. I'm more afraid of myself when I'm OFF these drugs.
> ha
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> KDi in Texas
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> > ... by award-winning medical journalist Robert Whitaker?
> > It's very well-documented, well-researched look at what a corrupt sham the psychiatric industry is.
> > I would be very afraid if I was taking these drugs.
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>I just had to jump in here....in my younger days I would have to be included in the *bootstraps* group, I thought if you were depressed you should just *snap yourself out of it*. Ah, the ignorance of youth!!!
Now that I have actually suffered this myself, I cannot disagree with you STRONGLY enough!! Like KDi, you would NOT want to see me in your rear view mirror 6 months ago, a road rage accident just waiting to happen, or come visit me at my job so I could get another customer complaint on my *rudeness*, or ask my husband if he felt comfortable going to sleep. I was a bomb with a hair trigger and bad news if you got me upset!!
O Brave New World......we will all be taking Soma and be forever happy!!! Do I believe we are over-medicated as a Nation?? Possibly, and yet there are SO MANY of us that *need* to be medicated, and are helped to make it through another day, I can't believe it is ALL BAD!
If you are trying to scare us it won't work, if you are trying to berate us for our problems, shame on you. If you are sincerely trying to *help* us, your tone is very insensitive.
I hope you never *need* to be medicated.
~~~8|8
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