Posted by metric on April 25, 2009, at 12:18:27
In reply to Re: Remeron's now put my friend off meds for life., posted by Enigma on April 22, 2009, at 18:03:59
> Ahh, that's a shame. My mother is kinda hit or miss like that. She'll take meds for certain physical ailments, but if I tell her she's depressed (she lost her husband 2 years ago, my dad) and still cries over it a good deal of the time, she refuses outright to take a mild AD. But, she's got issues with accepting the fact that she might have any form of mental illness, even a temporary situation-based one. ...and, she's actually got her share of them. :)
Perhaps she doesn't appreciate having her emotions invalidated by your suggestion that she's "mentally ill". There is absolutely nothing medically pathological about emotional distress per se -- even severe distress.
> Wow, horrible. I have seen my share of docs that I knew about 10x more than about my disorder. I couldn't believe it. I would think to myself, wow, can I get paid $180 per visit each time I come here instead? As for a few docs, I was TELLING THEM what drugs and what dosages to give me, and they were writing the scripts, no lie. Luckily insurance was paying for the visits as there's no way I would pay these jokers that kind of money for signing a piece of paper.
>So that's okay as long as someone *else* foots the bill? Why should anyone have to pay for a service they don't want? If people weren't so doped up on mind-numbing "antidepressants", maybe they wouldn't be so complacent. Maybe we'd see some much needed change.
Listening to the bromidic "mental health" propaganda spewed daily is enough to drive any modestly intelligent individual capable of critical thought to contemplate taking an antidepressant so that he might instead smile at the platitudes.
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