Posted by linkadge on June 5, 2007, at 15:16:06
In reply to Re: Depression is unfortunate brain chemistry, posted by Squiggles on June 5, 2007, at 0:30:50
I think it is human tendancy to want to blame ones problems on something other than what is within ones controll.
To play the devils advocate, fat people like to believe that their genes control their weight more than their will power.
While there are truths to both sides of the argument, I don't see that anybody's depressive mood is completely out of ones own controll.
Whenever you pop a pill, you fail to learn possable coping strategies that may end up helping you more effectively and more thoroughly in the long run.
I am case and point.
I got depressed, I popped pills, I felt better. But, History not learned from is bound to be repeated. Did popping zoloft help me learn to do math better. Did popping zoloft get me a job? Did popping the latest SSRI make me new friends, improve my looks, make me more popular, make me younger, fix health problems, make me straight, remove unsightly body hair, fix relationships with my parents??
Just because you take a chemical filter, and develop a temporary selective amnesia to lifes difficulties doesn't mean the future is guarenteed to be rosey.
Thats why most of these drugs don't work is because they just desensitize you to everything.
They work by making you a zombie, and desensizing you to everything.Sure the latest drug may give you a little more energy, may take the edge off, but then the next time a problem comes around you have one less coping stratety, and you become like me.
Drugs start a paradigm shift from hell. Why am I now on this board? Because every problem I have I think of solving in terms of a pill. Instead of waking up and tacking my problems head on, I run to the doctor and ask for the next power pill that will do everything for me.
I don't believe that anyones problems are purely biological. Petting a dog can will cause a detectable rise in serotonin livels. Experience affects chemistry just as much as chemistry affects experience.
Even people with diseases such as epilepsy (whos origins are almost never attribted to character flaw) can do things to influence the frequency of seizures.
Linkadge
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