Psychiatry Exposed

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My non-advice is this - talk to a therapist before you talk to a psychiatrist. You may not need medication, but if you see the psychiatrist first - well, he's a hammer, you're a nail, and you're going on meds, and you may be able to work through what is troubling you without them. Or maybe not - but any decent therapist will know when it's appropriate to get a psychiatrist involved.

It's a pretty hard to get hold of a therapist in the UK. I do agree though, it's a much better bet to try to work it out with a good therapist and only go the drug route if necessary. I really wish people were better educated about how things like depression and anxiety can easily be symptoms of other things too. Unmanaged asthma or allergies, lack of sleep, poor diet and lack of exercise, even not getting enough sun or fresh air. Mostly not severe cases but a lot of people could be a lot happier with a handful of changes to their daily lives.

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Suicidal thoughts is a side effect of some flu medications, so it's hardly a point of contention between any two drugs. Don't even get me started on all the ways a pill bottle leverages to describe "sudden, inexplicable death"

Sure, but when it falls under the category of common side effects I think it's something to be taken seriously.