Posted by SLS on April 22, 2011, at 7:35:51
In reply to Re: the only way out, posted by huxley on April 21, 2011, at 18:41:56
Huxley.
You bring up important issues. However:
Your choosing to target me personally and with such vehemence is little more than an ad hominem attack. You do not bother presenting facts, either about the science behind your arguments or your knowledge of the history and content of my posts.
I try not to offer opinion as fact. I often offer citations of medical literature in order to allow people to become aware of the science and clinical therapeutics as they currently exists. I have not acquired my knowledge by attending medical school. However, this has not precluded me from reading the same medical literature that doctors have read since 1983; much of it being contradictory.
You want me to guess as to how a particular drug affects you? Yeah, right. I have no facts to apply here. For all I know, it has produced in you profound akathisia. Here's one for you: What mental illness is your doctor attempting to treat that he should have chosen Abilify for you? We might like to know how a real live doctor treats his patients. *If* you and/or your doctor elected to stop taking Abilify because of adverse events or lack of therapeutic efficacy, why did your doctor not know in advance how it would affect you? How could you possibly take Abilify knowing what are the side effects of other drugs in the category of antipsychotics? You require more of me than you do your doctor or yourself. Why is that?
You have argued that people on Psycho-Babble offer suggestions without being doctors. This is an administrative matter that should be directed to the website operator. Why has he allowed this posting behavior for over a decade? I would be interested to know why myself.
Oh, yeah. Why don't you try reading my posts with a bit more care. It doesn't help anyone for you to opine regarding my posts without reading them more thoroughly first.
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20110418/msgs/983408.html
Huxley: "Scott, seing as you are playing internet Psychiatrist and making recomendations on what drugs people should take I think it is only right for you to also tell them the risks and side effects."
Scott: "The burden of proof is on you, which is good because your arguments should be easy to make. Antipsychotics carry a burden of side effects, even irreversible and deadly ones. Statistics? You neglect this essential set of facts."
There you go.
I would appreciate that you stop using ad hominem attacks and sarcasm regarding my character, motivations, and behaviors.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20110418/msgs/983495.html