(July 8, 2014 at 7:05 am)Rayaan Wrote: Well it's not just about being imperfect or not good enough. It's more than that. Psychiatric drugs have been proven to cause life-threatening side affects, time after time, and many times they left patients feeling worse than they were before. And if suicide is one of the common side effects of antidepressants, then that's a serious matter, without a doubt. I don't see any benefits that can counter such a dangerous risk.
I don't think you're truly grasping the nature and power of mental illness. When you become overwhlemed by it, you'll stick hot pokers into your skull if you think that will make you feel better. Any benefit from a medication would be worth great risk, because living a life consumed by depression is not living at all. It's just waiting to die.
The issue with anti-depressants is really that they're over-prescribed. There's too much incentive to prescribe them.
