Posted by SLS on August 20, 2005, at 8:32:05
In reply to Hey folks, it's not just the MEDS, posted by DoYouKnowHim? on August 20, 2005, at 3:28:39
Hi.
In my opinion:
> However, I am worried that many people in here think that their solution is a pill. It is, but it isn't.For some people, the entire solution is a pill. Believe it or not, there are people floating around out there who are without significant psychological or emotional issues who are just waiting patiently for someone to fix the last thing getting in their way - abnormal brain physiology.
> What I mean is the meds are a great first step. But you must also be active in therapy.
Perhaps *you* must, but you are in no position to speak for anyone else. I hate to be so curt, but it is offensive to me that someone should place in front of me an imaginary psychological obstacle. This might not apply to you, but I become especially contemptuous when people do this to be better able to rationalize the existence of their own psychological obstacles.
> You must change your thinking.I must do no such thing.
You'd be surprised just how much a remission from an endogenous depression can change one's thinking overnight with only a single medication.
> Ideally, the meds calm you and your mind down enough where you can finally focus on re-training your mind.
Sort of.
Yes, very often, the abnormal brain physiology of major depression or bipolar depression, or anxiety disorders prevents one from focusing optimally on and process psychotherapy (should they need it) due to the negative influences these disorders have on thought and mood.
Ideally, the meds do what they do and help people where they need to be helped. Some people don't need to be "calmed". They do not experience anxiety at all, and are, in fact, slow-thinking and vegetative because of their endogenous depression. There is no dysphoria or melancholia - only anergia and psychomotor retardation. Learning is slowed and progress is hampered regardless of what mental task is laid before them. It is not specific to psychotherapy.
> Meds without therapy is just not realistic.
Declaring that meds without therapy is just not realistic is just not realistic. Nor is it accurate. In fact, I find it personally offensive and sabotaging that everyone suffering from a mental illness is deemed somehow psychologically incompetent that they can't work out on their own the same issues that exist for those without mental illness.
What is mental illness?
- Scott
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