Posted by bleauberry on April 12, 2010, at 17:09:56
In reply to What are your thoughts on sites like..., posted by conundrum on April 11, 2010, at 21:02:00
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> Often these sites and forums promote drugs outside of the norm of psych practice such as stimulants like provigil, selegine, nootropics like racetams and stuff like GHB.Maybe it's common pscyhiatry that is actually outside the norm? I mean, with as little as we know about how the brain and all the intricate workings of the body function, who is to say who is an expert and who isn't? Fact is, nobody is.
It is predominantly the political and economic environment that determines which drugs get the attention and which don't. I don't think that in any way makes one better than another.
Brain tinkerers. I would say those are definitely the pdocs. They have not a clue what they are doing to someone's longterm brain when they write out a prescription for an ssri.
Can you base your decisions on what a pdoc tells you? I personally cannot.
If we all spent as much time, effort, study, and trial-and-error on multiple lifestyle changes and health improvements, and in differential diagnosis of things that were likely missed, I think that makes more sense than putting all that effort into just trying mind-tinkering drugs one after another, no matter who it is that is promoting them.
I personally believe all the drugs of common psychiatry as well as the others overseas serve a purpose, with neither having more potential or less potential than the other. But I also believe we get too caught up in the trap of narrow vision drug focus and lose sight of the bigger picture.
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> Are these people kinda nuts and brain tinkerers? Are the drugs they recommend reliable solutions to long standing problems?
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> Can you base your decisions on those of psychonauts?
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> I guess i'm posting because sometimes when I see how many other drugs are out there that might help with some of my symptoms I get frustrated at the complexity. Part of me wants to demonize those drugs just so I don't have to worry about trying them. If i discredit I don't have to try. Thats pretty dumb, but sometimes the number of options and combos we have is overwhelming.
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> Its like this show "Sliders" where the characters are constantly going from one alternate universe to the next to get home. However there are infinite alternate universes. They would never get home if this actually occured. When I think about the number of options there are outside of conventional psych drugs prescribed in the US. I find it overwhelming. Its one of the few things that can actually make me feel anxious.
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