Posted by linkadge on December 3, 2006, at 19:21:00
In reply to There really aren't even opinions, just statistics » Squiggles, posted by madeline on December 3, 2006, at 18:17:45
Thats a very fair assessment.
I think it is necessary for anyone undergoing such treatmetents to constantly reevaluate the safety and usefullness of a particular treatment.
Perhaps there is a tendancy to think that drugs are evil when a person is sick. On the other hand, there is the tendancy to think that drugs are gifts from God when a person is well.
My mother still thinks that TCA's were a gift from God dispite the fact that they sent her into a psychotic manic episode that lasted months. Yeah...thats the way God works.
I guess my main point is that the truth about a drug is completely independant of both ones state of mind, and how the drug makes one feel.
The drug could be helping your mental condition, but still be doing very bad things to the body.
But when you're well, I suppose the tendancy is to dismiss those possabilities.
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