Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?

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I would trust drug companies a little more if they actually took chemical scans of your body and tested them with the drugs that they're using on you.

For the most part, there are no "scans/tests" that can be run for mental health issues. The diagnosis and treatment is based on history and symptoms.

I'm sorry that both of you (MG and DF) have such distrust and disdain for the mainstream (allopathic) medical community. If these feelings are true, there are other options that are available.

They are true feelings. I know that there's no scans or tests that can be done. I was stating what an alternative to the current method would look like, in my mind. We don't currently have the technology for that though, which is something I acknowledge and I never assumed otherwise. I know that this is very cynical, but we are not very advanced in terms of medicine. I see that there's a lot of people who are untreatable, we still haven't discovered ways of altering the degeneration of DNA molecules that results in aging. We don't even seem to be interested in working towards ways to prevent illness. All that modern medicine does is treat the illnesses we inevitably get from the degeneration of our cells. There is no dying of natural causes, something fails and we get sick one way or another. I refuse to call what we have today advanced or a treatment when that's not really what it is.