Posted by Abby Cunningham on October 20, 2008, at 19:14:40
In reply to Re: Long-Term Users of SSRI's--Need Your Help, posted by linkadge on October 15, 2008, at 14:38:03
Link,
Agree with you. I think most if not all psych drugs are not worth it for people with mild to moderate anxiety and even severe depression as I have. The benzos have ruined my life after 25+ years - anyone - who takes benzos - be warned you WILL reach tolerance/withdrawal eventually, early or later, and it is HELL.The "only way out is through" as Winston Churchill said--which is true for these brain drugs. Not saying they don't have a place for the very mentally ill, but on the whole, they all poop out or reach "TOLERANCE" people, where they stop working (?helping). I have seen people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who are doing so much better OFF drugs than on them.
Sorry for the rant; been burned and iatrogenically addicted to benzodiazepines and will not let another mind destroying drug pass my lips unless it is absolutely proven to not be detrimental to my health ( notice I don't say proven to be helpful, since there is no drug YET that is proven to workfor years. EVERY PSYCH DRUG IS ADDICTIVE/CAUSES PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE to some degree or another. Today's medicine just does not have working psychiatric drugs for the vast majority of people; maybe in the next century. Look at the 50's and 60's when valium, barbiturates, ritalin and amphetamines were the panacea for all neurotic ills, and antipsychotics were thorazine that wonderful drug that chemically lobotomized so many patients, and today we have such things as Zyprexa which causes diabetes and HEART BLOCK which my father died from ---- all because a stupid doctor put him on it for his dementia from strokes.
No more drugs for me. I pray that everyone uses discernment before taking these experiments.
Abby
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