Posted by Dr. Bob on November 14, 2002, at 19:19:33
[Posted by Jumpy on November 14, 2002, at 1:09:18]
> Hello Everyone,
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> This battle against depression has been very long and tiring. Anyone else feel this way? Anyone not achieving total or even partial relief with current psychiatric treatment?
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> I think most people know this here, but "mood disorders" are the leading cause of disability, leading cause of suicide, affect up to 5 to 10 percent of the population ..... so why does psychiatric research get the lowest amount of funding here in the United State. It is not right!
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> Take for example HIV/AIDS. The government and private sources provided tremendous amounts of funding to research HIV. In only EIGHT years, the research discovered the virus and how it caused disease in the human body. Now, researchers are able to make educated decisions to design new drugs and other therapies to treat HIV disease.
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> But look at mental illness. We still have no idea what causes them. The medication is still basically guess work. We don't know how the medications work or how effective in the long term they will be. Image if mental illness receive adequate funding ... soon the cause of some of these disease would be uncovered. Then researcher could make strong effective medications to treat ... dare I say CURE some mental illness. And even develope methods to diagnose mental illness correctly ... how many of us have had multiple diagnosis over the years, only to finally get the correct diagnosis after many years of your life has past.
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> What if we all banded together and demanded more funding for mental illness? Anyone here interested?
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> I think we all deserve better. I think we all deserve a normal life. I think if we united this could happen.
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> Sincerely,
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> Jumpy/Paul
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