Posted by Jazzed on July 19, 2005, at 22:54:13
In reply to About my post..and Suicide..., posted by med_empowered on July 19, 2005, at 17:45:30
>>For thousands of years, people have searched for answers about life and happiness/unhappiness. As a result, humanity has art, religion, philosophy, music...things that make life meaningful, full, rich...and worth living.Yeah, but if you're depressed it's very difficult to find the energy or desire to enjoy those pursuits. I would rather know that there is medication which might be beneficial to me, that I can take if I'm depressed. If I have to take medication to overcome depression, in order to be able to enjoy life, then so be it. I'd rather do that than try in vain to overcome a depression that is possibly biochemical in nature, that no art, religion, philosophy, or music will help. That said, I know that there are people out there who are having a very difficult time overcoming their depression even with medication, BUT at least there is some hope that they will find the right medication, at the right dose in order to feel better. At the time I was seriously depressed, the answers to those questions had little meaning to me, I just wanted to feel better, to get my life back. Those questions were for people with more energy.
>>How can psychiatry, which emerged from the madhouse with claims of "curing the insane" even TRY to compare itself to these endeavors?
I don't recall ever hearing that psychiatry has ever tried to compare itself with those endeavors.
>>How can psychiatrists dare to assert that their expensive little pills are some how of equal value as, say, the teachings of Jesus, Buddha, or Gandhi in explaining and healing life's pain?
IMHO I don't think very many psychiatrists would exert that medications were of equal value. Hopefully the good psychiatrists just want to make people who are suffering feel better and function more effectively.
Jazzy
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