(November 21, 2015 at 11:15 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I see the discussion has veered into alternative medicine. I, for one, just for the record, don't support that and I didn't mean to say that "normal" medicine doesn't help people. I was only referring to my own situation - I was answering the OP, therefore. I think that in some cases people don't need medication to deal with stress, they just need will and a different perspective. We are more resilient and resourceful than we think. Of course, there are cases when nothing else but medicine will do - I'm not denying that. I was only referring to far simpler and easier to deal with instances of slight depression, anxiety and so on.
I'm not really talking about alternative medicine. I think that the old saying "what is alternative medicine that's been proven to work? medicine". I was arguing that gene therapy is a more viable solution to a lot of the medical problems we see today. I think that even a doctor will admit that psychiatric medicine isn't a fix to the problem. People have to keep taking the medicine for as long as they're having the problem, it doesn't fix anything. I think that what I want to see happening is therapy on the actual cells themselves. We're not advanced enough in medicine for that as far as I can tell, but a friend messaged me today saying that they cured someone's leukemia with gene therapy. There could also be unforeseen consequences of taking these medications. Look at any one of these medicines, the list of possible side effects is enormous and pretty severe. It's just like throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.
