"The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease, and once from the medicine." This post will serve as a part 2 to my last post- which focused more on self-diagnosis and the scientific progress that has been made in the field of psychology in the past few decades. At the end of that post, I stated that I wanted to give my opinion on modern medicine- PARTICULARLY medicines prescribed and given to the mentally ill to treat the symptoms of their afflictions. Before I even get into my own opinion, I want to clarify that while I fully support therapy and getting help from professionals when needed... I do not support medicines at all. Many of the medicines given to the mentally ill are terrible (more on that later), addictive, and too risky to be prescribing when there is even the SLIGHTEST chance of mis-diagnosis. I've seen people my age be mis-diagnosed with severe caused of PTSD and anxiety disorders and put on heavy anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medications because of it... medications that can throw off the balance of chemicals in your brain ENTIRELY and make your situation worse if you were misdiagnosed. This leads me back to a previous argument- how people tell their psychologists/psychiatrists/therapists/whatever what THEY believe to be the problem instead of the entire story. This snowballs into mis-diagnosis, which can snowball into medications being wrongly prescribed.... which can lead to screwed up minds and horrible addictions. On the flip side of things, if medications are so quickly prescribed to the "mentally ill", technically anyone can fake their symptoms as a quick way to get legal access to otherwise illegal and prohibited drugs. The entire process of things just seems sketchy to me, and as "neurotypical" as it may sound- I believe strongly that there is a natural cure for everything. Including mental illness... perhaps even ESPECIALLY mental illness. Everything afflicted is in your mind and while you may have damaged neuro-pathways, you can at least learn ways to cope with them and handle your own mind without screwing with the natural chemicals in your mind. To prove my own point, I'll leave a comparison chart below. To tie this up? You shouldn't be prescribing people who are deemed mentally ill medicine with side effects that are equivalent to their symptoms. It makes NO SENSE.
Maddie
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