Posted by yxibow on March 26, 2007, at 3:02:13
In reply to Re: No hope in more useless drugs/TheMean reds, posted by rvanson on March 25, 2007, at 19:54:31
> > 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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> Some of us are older and wiser now. We wonder why certain medications are no longer used much (MAOI's) when it is clear that they work for many people much better then the current crop of big pharma money-maker SSRI's and SNRI'sthat are prescribed by every kind of doctor under the sun, and often not a Pdoc.
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> IMO, no one with severe mental illness should ever be treated by a GP or an internist with these inferior medications, and some Pdocs need to spend less time with the pretty little 30 year old pharmacutical representatives in thier cute little convertables, and more time treating patients who are sick, with whatever medications work for them, old or new.
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> I left my last Pdoc because 50 percent of the time I saw a big Pharma sales rep waiting in the lobby to foist another new medication on him and down his patients throats, regardless of its effectiveness or lack therof.
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> Its all about making $$$ and not our health in many cases these days.
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> No more.
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> Sorry to hear that you dont like what you are reading here about the medications, as sometimes it hurts to know the truth, but thats life for you.
Yes its "life for me", whatever that means at this point.It's fine for your own sake to throw away psychiatry but don't make gross generalizations for others who are trying to repair their lives.
I feel that you, in your insinuation, don't even know or care or give a four-letter word what my life is like. For the past 5 and a half years I have been afflicted by a rare disorder that has required medication and therapy to keep me at a state that I can even control half the life around me. I can't yet work, I can't go forward in life even for the medications I do take and the therapy I receive.
I find your tone incredibly offensive, insensitive, and if you had read any of my previous posts you would have half the human decency not to post this way. I don't enjoy taking the medications that I take every day. I can't doubt you wouldn't enjoy polypharmacy. I don't but its somewhere between an inconvenient reality and a necessary evil.
My life has been turned upside down -- yes, I genetically have a lifetime of biochemical (mental) disorders like a number of people here do, if they haven't gained them by other means, but I have never been beset like this before.
So take a walk in my shoes sometime -- feel what it is like to have burning eyes and pain on bad days from a rare visual Somatiform disorder -- imagine that your mind is perfectly sane and intelligent but you can't control the fact that traffic lights appear bright at night or that you have static in your vision trying to read and maybe you'll have some compassion.
Jay
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