Posted by SLS on May 30, 2009, at 5:48:28
In reply to Re: Are the drugs that we're taking killing us?, posted by bulldog2 on May 29, 2009, at 18:24:30
> I find it amazing that people are shocked that pschotropic drugs have side effects. Do you know how many people die from tylenol overdoses that destroy the liver or thousands who die from advil and bleeding ulcers? Yet most of us continue to take these drugs. So what is unique about psych drugs that we attack them because they have se. Our physicians are trained in allopathic medicine and primary use meds to treat disease. Most of them are potentially dangerous and have certain sides.
Psychotropic drugs are as stigmatized as the illnesses they treat. Many people are passionate in their belief that biological mental illnesses do not exist, and that psychotropics are cop-outs or bandaids that don't really work, only cause side effects, and make drug companies money. To these people, depression is something only the weak cannot work past. It is a matter of psychological abnormality, therefore, drugs are not necessary and nothing but a hoax. To many of these people, the use of these drugs is a conspiracy.
- Scott
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