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Paleolithic Medicine & Natural Remedies / Re: Antidepressants and Psychiatric Treatment?
« on: March 20, 2012, 02:23:50 PM »Because you cannot prove the existence of any kind of pathogen, lesion or tumor as the basis of an unwanted mental condition, you cannot claim it is a "medical illness."
Many illnesses, both physical and psychological, result from reasons other than pathogens, lesions, or tumors. Biochemical/ hormonal imbalances lie at the root of myriad "dis-eases," including forms of mental illness....to then make the leap and say that these are "diseases" that can be treated with a "medicine" is untenable.
Many forms of mental illness can be effectively treated using antipsychotic/ antidepressant medications, and/ or complementary, herbal remedies, especially when used in conjunction with proper counseling or psychotherapy....it comes with very severe long-term side effects for everyone.
This statement is just inaccurate and unsubstantiated. Many people have taken medication for mental illness as prescribed for, essentially, their entire lives, and have suffered no physical ill effects. Most medications are metabolized by the liver and excreted by the kidneys, and have a relatively short half-life. An otherwise healthy body is usually able to handle a prescribed dose without any trouble....don't lose sight of the fact that you are taking a mind-altering drug. Anyone would feel better after drinking a cocktail or snorting cocaine, but I wouldn't call it "medication"!
Most people drinking cocktails and snorting cocaine don't call it "medication," either. Then again, they aren't typically using these substances for medical purposes, under the supervision of a physician or psychiatrist. On the other hand, I also believe that the moderate use of some mind-altering substances can be healthy under the right circumstances. Our world's primitive peoples did--and still do--tend to feel the same way....on this antidepressant issue everyone should check their emotions at the door and take a long hard look at the logic from a purely scientific point of view, rather than believe the age-old propaganda that we all have heard for years and years throughout the media that comes, in fact, from those parties benefiting from selling psychotopic drugs.
I agree. However, I don't believe that every statement supporting the proper use of antipsychotic/ antidepressant medication necessarily constitutes "propaganda." Of course the pharmaceutical companies are going to try to sell as much of their product as possible. Does this mean that all of their products are without merit? I think not.I have been around too many people not to know that these drugs are very dangerous.
I have been around too many people to know that these drugs can improve the quality of--or outright save--people's lives.
Well put Tony!
