I appreciate that SSRI's are better than drinking for you. Maybe if I could bring myself to take them I wouldn't need to be a drug addict myself.
I already pointed out that insulin doesn't count as 'all drugs are bad'.
Antibiotics have a dark side too, antibiotic resistant TB for one example. Giving a child with a flu an antibiotic...
It's not that SSRI's are addictive in the classical sense, but that the withdrawl symptoms can be so difficult as to make it habit forming. Coming off SSRI's can be very difficult, to the point where people go back on them when they would rather quit. Not quite the same kind of addictive as other drugs, but certainly they cannot be described as they are by the royals and the corporate sponsors as 'non-habit forming'.
And then we have the diagnosis of depression, a very grey area. I am legitimately depressed. I have a disorder, a problem that causes me to have more negative and self demeaning subconscious thoughts than others. But where is the line between disability and life? A child is sad because their dog died. Is that depression or just life? Is there an amount of temporary suffering that we should be expected to deal with as humans? More often then not the parents and quack doctors try to prescribe SSRI's to said hypothetical child because they have a disorder.
When we allow the drug companies to label what may be part of human existence (on a sliding scale) as a disorder, and prescribe a seriously strong drug that may be habit forming in the sense that it can be almost impossible to quit taking it even if you want too... We have a conflict of interest.
Certainly I don't mean that I am not happy you are alive and well, or that you are not entitled to your own point of view... My own Ma has taken SSRI's for many years, and she has yet to shoot up a school.
Thanks,
-Pip
I already pointed out that insulin doesn't count as 'all drugs are bad'.
Antibiotics have a dark side too, antibiotic resistant TB for one example. Giving a child with a flu an antibiotic...
It's not that SSRI's are addictive in the classical sense, but that the withdrawl symptoms can be so difficult as to make it habit forming. Coming off SSRI's can be very difficult, to the point where people go back on them when they would rather quit. Not quite the same kind of addictive as other drugs, but certainly they cannot be described as they are by the royals and the corporate sponsors as 'non-habit forming'.
And then we have the diagnosis of depression, a very grey area. I am legitimately depressed. I have a disorder, a problem that causes me to have more negative and self demeaning subconscious thoughts than others. But where is the line between disability and life? A child is sad because their dog died. Is that depression or just life? Is there an amount of temporary suffering that we should be expected to deal with as humans? More often then not the parents and quack doctors try to prescribe SSRI's to said hypothetical child because they have a disorder.
When we allow the drug companies to label what may be part of human existence (on a sliding scale) as a disorder, and prescribe a seriously strong drug that may be habit forming in the sense that it can be almost impossible to quit taking it even if you want too... We have a conflict of interest.
Certainly I don't mean that I am not happy you are alive and well, or that you are not entitled to your own point of view... My own Ma has taken SSRI's for many years, and she has yet to shoot up a school.
Thanks,
-Pip
