Posted by yxibow on March 22, 2007, at 2:23:32
In reply to Re: No hope in more useless drugs/TheMean reds, posted by Declan on March 21, 2007, at 16:29:29
> If you already have a screwed up chemical balance in your brain (or whatever), it can't be good for you to try one med after another.
> Liable to screw up your brain chemistry more.
> And you'll be lucky to get it right without lots of trials.
> There's lots of people who believe they have been changed permanently from the trial of a particular med.
This board period has seen some of the most negativity I have seen on the board in some time towards medications and psychiatry on part of a board that I thought was supposed to discuss at least something good about them. What is the point of even talking about them? We look forward to the next big thing, due to come in 20xx, and then complain about side effects as soon as it comes out of the pharmacy. It leaves me with more disillusion than I already have. The negativity pervades. I used to come here to discuss medications and my illness and get something out of it. Now my depression is just increased by endless posts about how medications, psychiatry, and science are utterly useless or even worse. Its 2007. We live in 2007. This is the state of things at the moment and they're by no means perfect but they're certainly better than when the aunt I never knew blew her head off. The last time I checked nobody was being injected with insulin or stabbed in the head.
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