Posted by joe schmoe on February 27, 2013, at 19:01:09
In reply to Re: Psychiatry destroyed my life! » herpills, posted by SLS on February 27, 2013, at 18:07:57
Well psychiatry saved mine. No way I could have been working for the last several decades without it.
Meds are not an exact science, but nothing in medicine is.
Since a lot of mental illnesses appear, or get worse, as people are in their late teens and twenties, I have to wonder about people who got treatment early, got worse, and blame it on the meds. I remember recreational drugs getting a similar bad rap in the 60's and 70's because people were usually taking them in high school or college, and some of them developed mental illnesses like schizophrenia soon after. Of course the problem is, that is the exact age when people are developing these illnesses, which they were going to get anyway, whether they did drugs or not. But since drugs were something that changed consciousness, it was a natural association to make between taking them and getting mental illness not long after.
Not saying that no one has a bad reaction to meds. Just that when someone gets mental illness in their early 20's, it may be that it was going to happen anyway, it's hard to disentangle correlation and causation in these cases.
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