Posted by rvanson on March 25, 2007, at 19:54:31
In reply to Re: No hope in more useless drugs/TheMean reds, posted by yxibow on March 22, 2007, at 2:23:32
> This board period has seen some of the most negativity I have seen on the board in some time towards medications and psychiatry on part of a board that I thought was supposed to discuss at least something good about them. What is the point of even talking about them? We look forward to the next big thing, due to come in 20xx, and then complain about side effects as soon as it comes out of the pharmacy. It leaves me with more disillusion than I already have. The negativity pervades. I used to come here to discuss medications and my illness and get something out of it. Now my depression is just increased by endless posts about how medications, psychiatry, and science are utterly useless or even worse. Its 2007. We live in 2007. This is the state of things at the moment and they're by no means perfect but they're certainly better than when the aunt I never knew blew her head off. The last time I checked nobody was being injected with insulin or stabbed in the head.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Some of us are older and wiser now. We wonder why certain medications are no longer used much (MAOI's) when it is clear that they work for many people much better then the current crop of big pharma money-maker SSRI's and SNRI'sthat are prescribed by every kind of doctor under the sun, and often not a Pdoc.
IMO, no one with severe mental illness should ever be treated by a GP or an internist with these inferior medications, and some Pdocs need to spend less time with the pretty little 30 year old pharmacutical representatives in thier cute little convertables, and more time treating patients who are sick, with whatever medications work for them, old or new.
I left my last Pdoc because 50 percent of the time I saw a big Pharma sales rep waiting in the lobby to foist another new medication on him and down his patients throats, regardless of its effectiveness or lack therof.
Its all about making $$$ and not our health in many cases these days.
No more.
Sorry to hear that you dont like what you are reading here about the medications, as sometimes it hurts to know the truth, but thats life for you.
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