Posted by allisonm on February 11, 2001, at 12:22:33
In reply to Willow » willow, posted by Rzip on February 11, 2001, at 9:56:25
> > > I do not believe in psychiatric medicines. Maybe in another 50 years or so (if I am still alive), I'll feel more confident about the medications. Right now, too little is known about the neurotransmitters. Just think antidepressive meds were only discovered 50 years ago.
>Yea, but penicillin was introduced only 60 years ago, and other versions still were being developed in the 1950s and 1960s...
I think radiation and chemotherapy still are crude therapies for cancer, but they are all there is right now, besides surgery. Heck, I think surgery is crude and invasive. Imagine what they'll all be like in 50 years.
I guess if one doesn't feel terribly bad he/she can avoid meds. But if one cannot function well, why suffer through it? No doubt you have heard this ad nauseam, but it's a quality of life issue for me. I don't want to feel horrible for 80 years if I can feel pretty good for 60 or 70. And I wonder if I feel that horrible whether I'd even make it to 80; the stress of living with a mental illness might take more years off my life than would any possible side effect from the drugs to get rid of it.
Best regards,
Allison
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