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Re: Suggestions re: Someone Who Refuses Medications

Posted by bleauberry on September 3, 2009, at 19:14:05

In reply to Suggestions re: Someone Who Refuses Medications, posted by mrm12333601 on September 1, 2009, at 14:22:53

There could be many reasons she refuses meds.

If they make her emotions numb, she may lose sense of her spirit. We are spiritual beings. Strip that away through numbness and we are nothing. For some people, being ill with a live spirit is better than being numbed with a dead spirit.

I know a woman who went on and off her prozac same as your wife. She admitted that her depressed life off prozac was better than her numbed life on it, simply because once in a while she could actually get a few random moments of enjoying her daily morning walks, when on prozac it never happened ever. She looked forward to those few random times and was willing to deal with depression all the other times just to feel it when it happened.

When someone threatens suicide, it is an outward sign that all hope is gone. Psychiatric wards and medicines do not give that needed hope. If anything, they can potentially trap the patient in a more confined world where hope is yet limited even more. If the meds work great, that's a different story. I am assuming in this case they haven't worked great.

Sometimes when people get better on meds, they think they are better and don't need them anymore. When they stop, the slippery slope from well to sick happens in such a deceptive way that they don't see it happening. Somewhere along the way they even lose sight of the obvious clue that the med stoppage is what caused it. Very deceptive blinded slide.

I personally feel, opinion, it is cruel for any human to force any other to take a foreign molecule not of their choosing. Who are we to have such domain and power of someone else's life? Criminal prisoners yes, but a spouse, no.

The suicide threats are a statement of lack of hope. What is missing in her life and the household she lives is something that gives her hope.

If she chooses to refuse meds, then I say, opinion, ask with respect what other protocols can we do? With a heart to heart talk, put it on the table that WE have an enemy here that WE are going to battle together, you and me. For now, let's try it different. Let's not do medicines. If a medicine has helped you, maybe let's do just a small amount of it, not the large doses you had before. Let's not do hospitals. You have enough bad memories already. Let's not add more. We can do this together. We can move forward in a new direction for both of us. We can beat this monster.

Maybe it means going to church. Maybe it is taking up a new hobby such as landscape painting. Maybe it is taking walks together. Doing something new and unique together on a regular daily basis. Both spouses stepping into the world doing something new for both, together. Maybe it means both researching herbs, reading natural healing books. Maybe it means seeing a Naturopath instead of an MD. Maybe it means seeing an Integrative MD and asking what are the biological causes of schizophrenia that we may test for them and treat them instead of the symptoms?

More than likely, it should be all of the above in a unified strategy.

All of these things have one thing in common...they give hope to the person who needs it. They open up a door to a new road where true healing can actually have a chance to happen. A hospital stay cannot do any of those things.


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