Posted by linkadge on February 11, 2006, at 9:05:54
In reply to Re: The dramatic rise of mental illness » detroitpistons, posted by yxibow on February 11, 2006, at 7:45:32
I don't think we're all that advanced either. Sure we have more tools these days to poke around, but are people actually getting any better?
Sure there are cases of people commiting suicide before meds, and there are also cases of those who do so even on meds. My mother tried to commit suicide and she claimed it was the tegretol that made her so depressed.
We are so far from individually tailoring meds. If you are depressed, you three options, tweek your serotonin, tweek your norepinephrine, or both.
If the drugs were half as efficatious as doctors claim, we would see significant declines in mental illness, and suicide rates but we havn't.
Suicide rates have wobbled up and down since Thorazine. The lowest suicide rate in the century was pre-meds.I've been on more meds than people thrice my age, but they never really did anything. If we were really "hitting the target" then people wouldn't have to keep upping their dose every two weeks.
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