Posted by Lou Pilder on February 5, 2012, at 7:20:20
In reply to Re: Mistrust Of Psychotropic Meds Unfounded, posted by bleauberry on February 5, 2012, at 7:06:03
> So basically this is what I got out of the article:
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> Most meds for various health conditions are unreliable....they work somewhere in the 50% range. Plus or minus, some better than others. But the overall theme is....might help, might not, flip a coin, try it and see.
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> Ok, so in other words the bar has been set kind of low.
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> Now, we conclude psych meds are about the same in effectiveness as other meds.
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> So that makes them trustable? Sorry, I don't get that. We just lowered the bar and somehow used twisted logic to say it's ok now?
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> I do not trust psych meds and this article said nothing to change that. Don't misunderstand me....while I say I distrust them, it does not mean I do not endorse them. They do have their place and sometimes work miracles. I just think people should have less of a glorified image of their doctor and their meds, in most cases, because the end results do not usually justify that kind of glory or trust.
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> Someone might ask, why not trust the psych meds? Well, because whatever is causing the problem in the first place is not being addressed by them. They can in fact over the long term make whatever the underlying problem is worse than it would have been on its own. I see psych meds as "symptom managers", not cures not disease fighters and not health improvers.
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> How is it possible to trust something when you don't even know what it does, how it impacts other biochemistries, and one cannot explain why it worked 0% in one person, 30% in another, 60% in another, or 100% in another, and actually created out of thin air suicide in another. I dunno, I find that kind of scenario a bit difficult to trust.
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> I say approach with respect and caution and be as well educated as you can be. Trust but verify.bleau,
You wrote,[...Someone might ask, why not trust the psych meds? Well, because whatever is causing tthe problem in the first place is not being addressed by them. They can in fat over the long term make whatever the underlying problem worse than it would have been on its own...].
Thanks, I think that's good.
Lou
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