Posted by bleauberry on August 18, 2008, at 20:41:04
In reply to i tend to agree, posted by med_empowered on August 18, 2008, at 20:15:00
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> I thought for a long time pills were the answer. Then I turned my back on them, only to find myself locked up in a psych ward being force-fed noxious meds. These days my goal is to work my way out of the "system" and eventually free myself of my meds and my labels...from what I've read, a lot of people are finding themselves in similar situations.
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>I tend to agree with your I tend to agree post. I would add, though, that there are millions of people living vastly improved lives on their psych meds. My Mom was a nurse back when the first antipsychotic was invented. For depression and anxiety back then, the only solution was to be locked up in a hospital with hundreds of beds, kind of like a large auditorium, with the nurse's desk overlooking it all. Treatments included being locked up in solitary and shot with a water hose, or just left alone in your bed awaiting the next meal. At least these days there are other choices besides that, and other choices besides wandering the streets in some horror that never goes away. Hope is what people need the most. Meds can do that. Again though, we see the darkest side of it all right here at pbabble. Out in the real world, meds work better.
I, like you, would like to free myself of meds and stigma. Tried that. Been there, done that. I discovered we all have our own cross to bear. My current mindframe is to compromise in the middle, with a heavy emphasis on healthy living, which aint as easy as it sounds, and modest amounts of medical help but only from a cooperating doctor who allows the patient to guide the direction of service, and where the doctor has a whole-body approach rather than just a symptom-cluster or brain-med approach.
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