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Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
#71
RE: Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
I do not agree that homeopathy is actual medical practice...
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#72
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Or acupuncture either
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#73
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Another name for non-western medical practice:

"Alternative medicine".

Alternative medicine is a:

Richard Dawkins Wrote:...set of practices which cannot be tested, refuse to be tested, or consistently fail tests. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply...becomes medicine.

Richard Dawkins Wrote:[...]There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work.
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#74
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Homeopathy? Oh please.

Reality has left the building.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#75
RE: Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
(November 19, 2015 at 8:30 pm)DespondentFishdeathMasochismo Wrote: I have anxiety, it's been ruining my life for years. I think it's time I asked my doctor about getting some.

I hope it all works out well for you and I'm sorry to hear about your anxiety.

I have also suffered lots of anxiety in the past.

I used to take an anti-depressent med called Citalopram which my Psych said would also help to treat my anxiety and OCD. That specific anti-depressent he said works well for anxiety too:

http://www.drugs.com/citalopram.html
I also used to take an anti-anxiety med called lorazapam when I really needed calming down, I couldn't take it too often because it is addictive:

http://www.drugs.com/lorazepam.html

But I've been on more than just those meds... I've also been on two mood stablizers, the Priadel brand of Lithium:

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/dep...l-tablets/

And Semi-sodium valporate, Depakote:

http://patient.info/medicine/semisodium-...r-depakote

I've also taken two anti-psychotics Risperidone:

http://www.drugs.com/risperidone.html

and Olanzapine (which also helps stabilize the mood too):

http://www.drugs.com/mtm/olanzapine.html

Finally I used to take this sleep-enabler (which is slightly different to a sleeping pill, it is supposed to help the brain sleep naturally rather than just drug you to sleep):

http://www.drugs.com/cons/zopiclone.html

Those are all the meds I have ever taken to treat my mental health. I am now completely medication free and no longer need any of them, but at the time I did and I have no regrets about accepting those medications... some definitely worked better for me than others and I may have indeed been put on Lithium prematurely (my experience with Lithium was rather negative overall, I was on it for 4 years from the age of 18)... but I still have no regrets because I needed to take medication and refusing medication would have just kept me unwell.
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#76
RE: Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
You do realize you aren't going to convince those of us who have benefited from alternative medicine when western medicine failed that westernized medicine is the only 'real' form of treatment right? Part of the 'problem' with many natural remedies not being recognized by mainstream medicine is no one will do the 'accepted' studies on them because there is no money to be made off them. You really can't patent an herb or extract of something that occurs naturally, which severely limits potential profits if you are a large drug companys. You can, however, put a patent on some chemical that doesn't occur anywhere in nature you've concocted in a lab somewhere. Which do you think a drug company is going to invest the $$$ for a full scale drug trial for- the herbal remedy they can't patent and *might* make a couple million off of at most (over a very long timescale) OR some pharmaceutical drug they can patent then jack up the price on until the patent expires while they rake in tens of billions from on a very short timescale?
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#77
RE: Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
(November 20, 2015 at 11:28 pm)MentalGiant Wrote: You do realize you aren't going to convince those of us who have benefited from alternative medicine when western medicine failed that westernized medicine is the only 'real' form of treatment right?
You do realize that whether you're convinced or not is irrelevant and you do realize that the Placebo Effect is a very real and very well documented phenomenon... right?
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#78
RE: Would you ever take anti anxiety medication?
@MG I'm not trying to convince you
(November 15, 2015 at 9:56 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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#79
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*inserts Sam Harris quote for the 3rd time*

Just visualize it at this point Big Grin

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#80
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And I do not have to wear an ostomy bag for the rest of my life because pharmaceutical drugs and the fucktards who called themselves 'doctors' failed to bring my condition under control while creating unbearable side effects in the process. Naturopathic medicine put my condition into long term remission without surgery. I do not really give a flying fuck whether it was the tinctures of some herbs and roots with 0 side effects or the placebo effect. At the end of the day, I did not have to have life altering surgery in the name of refusing something that wasn't backed by "double blind studies" and governmental bureaucracy.

I sincerely hope you are never faced with a situation where pharmaceutical drugs fail to help you since you are unwilling to open your mind to other options that have never undergone "properly controlled double blind studies"".
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