Posted by willyee on March 11, 2005, at 1:08:49 [reposted on March 11, 2005, at 21:51:46 | original URL]
In reply to Posters on this board, posted by alexandra_k on March 9, 2005, at 2:40:35
> I'm sure different people feel differently but I would be interested in hearing peoples opinions on this.
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> 2) posters on this board (in your opinion)
> Specifically wanting a MEDICATION or DRUG as an answer? I mean sometimes people post about a certain symptom or problem. I think I have been jumped on on a couple of occasions now for suggesting a psychological rather than medication way of dealing with that symptom.
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> I guess I was wondering whether people are open to a variety of suggestions or if people have already made their mind up that some DRUG must be the answer (this is after all the medications board I suppose).
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> Just thought I'd ask.
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> Perhaps I'll redirect my response to the psychology board and it is up to you guys whether you want to follow the link...
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> Fair enough?Well this is my view...we are presented with the notion by the industry,the docters and phar companys that emotional disorder,depression,anxiety,ocd, etc are bio-chemical imbalances,not a flaw in character.
OK,if this is what they are presenting,and if this is what we are to rely on,then would these disorders not be a pyhscial disorder,as a seizure is,or parkins,would a chemical problem not mean there are pyhsicals attributes in the brain,not working correctly,and that the medication helps adjust these chemicals to a somewhat normal state.
If this is the case,how would talk therapy be anything but harmful as an alternate option to a person clincialy distressed by one of these disorders.If its chemical then its not logical disease,it is a very real pyhsical disease,and having a person not take a pyshical medication but instead seek a logical treatment to treat a pyhscial disorder be malpractive,and endangering the patient?
I mean wouldent it be a very bad thing to try to treat a parkinson patient with talk therpay instead of meds.
I have heard rebuttals where talk therapy makes changes in brain pattterns,im sorry,i can not buy this at all,i can not see how talk therpay can alter a pyshical defect in a brain,if this was the case then talk therapy should be a option for any brain trauma.Of course its not.
Now i can see someone valueing therapy with a medication,simply because it helps them to have support,and thats great,any thing excersie a friend a therapy etc that can help a person deal with the disease better is great.
But once again if we are gonna present our main theory as these being clinical bio-chemical disorders,then i dont understand how we can offer talk therapy,a very non-pyhscial therapy approach as treatment,it just doesent provide logic.I for example can have a great therapy session,but when i leave that office i still have my illness.I just enjoyed talking to someone,but would not label it a treatment.
When i did not take meds,and instead used techniques from therapy,my life was a horrid mess.
Marriage problems,family problems,break down in communications,a troubled child misbehaving,a abused person,these are all things a good therapist can make great strides in as being a third party infulenace,and providing a altentate means of emotional relase.
However,for CLINICAL "BIO-CHEMICAL" disorders such as clinical anxiety,clincial depression,clinical insomnia,....well therapy as a effective TREATMENT makes about as much sense as using it to treat parkinson,seizure,diabetes,narcolepys,or any brain trauma.
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