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eh, i never took pills even though i have pretty serious ADD. made me work harder to overcome it and now i can live a normal life without medication. :)

hooray for iamozy! I have never taken medication either. I think I could be diagnosed with ADD, bipolar, PTSD, disassociative disorder and depression.

But, frankly, I call it LIFE! and believe we learn the skill to deal with it. I have and I keep learning.

Thanks for the post E.

ha ha, but i was such a miserable little first grader! it took me on average four hours to finish my homework every day. :)

but now i’m an straight A student, so if i can do it, i think that most of these people on medication are taking the easy road out. no one just fights for control anymore. this is my brain and i’m gonna make it do what i want it to. FOCUS! :]

actually, its really the doctors fault, they prescribe massive amounts of prescriptions to the patient then the patient gets addicted to them, when the patient needs to check the pills out and tell the doctor you don’t need that many

When you find the country that does not depend on medicine to solve problems for sick people, real or imagined, let me know I want to go there too!

I LOVE iamozy’s response … ESSENCE … It’s my brain and I’m gonna make it do what I want it to do! FOCUS …

I Love it. I want that control. Thanks for the example iamozy.

sure, thanks, no prob! :}

It’s MY life and these are MY feelings … I am GOING to be happy! I AM a good person and I DESERVE to be lightened up and ENJOY my world. “Dang it, Get with it Girlfriend!” Pull my self up by my boot straps and start marching down “happy road”!

It’s a choice! a deliberate choice.

littlenick wrote:
When you find the country that does not depend on medicine to solve problems for sick people, real or imagined, let me know I want to go there too!

heh, you can check out west Texas! no pills out there, but nothing much else either! :)

but i think that we need to stop looking for countries and start looking within our own homes. our siblings, our parents, our children. we can pass this on to them so they won’t have to make the same mistakes as the people in the present are making.

Ok, I took antidepressants for a couple of years. And it helped - it probably saved my life. I don’t say it’s good for everybody, however, in my particular case, medicine plus therapy worked. I agree that people are far too quick to prescribe pills etc, I just wanted to point out that in some cases it can be very useful.

Glad it helped you S.re. But, who’s to know whether you could have handled it without them. The bottom line is … you are doing better now. Hopefully you developed the human skills to deal with the issue that knocked you off balance in the first place, should it ever arise again.

I have to make note that I am in firm agreement with Essence: Psychotropic, antidepressant, attention deficit dissorder drugs are prescriped and bought and keep drug companies quite wealthy …

There was a time when N.O.R.M.A.L. was quite varied and accepted. Emotions were part of being human. Learning to deal with emotions was part of a concept known as ‘dignity’.

“Strength of Character” was learned by getting through tough situations. Compassion was learned from our individual struggles. Connections were made by accepting others struggles and allowing them to “lean on me” while they process their suffering.

There was a time when people worked hard for the possessions they gained and worked hard to have food in their bellies …

We live in a time of preceived ‘entitlement’ … belief that everyone is somehow entitled to a roof over their head, safety, food in their belly and happiness . . . as if working for the experience and priviledge is no longer necessary.

Life takes work, if we want anything thing … happiness, groundedness, safety, a house, food in our bellies etc … we must do the work to obtain it.

Okay … done ranting. Sorry, excuse me.. just having an outburst on a soapbox. Flip the switch to “OFF” now.

drugs do help people, ofcourse they do!
but have to agree the over-relience is shocking, on both sides of the atlantic.
is it true the US actually have TV adverts for their medical pills? that would scare the something outta me if i saw that in the UK.

Yes, listen real fast to the side effects and you say to yourself … holy heck, if you didn’t wished you were dead before you started the medications, the dry mouth & nausea, diarrhea, night sweats, insomnia, heart palpitations … etc. etc. could certainly push you over the edge.

exactly. deal with the depression and get over it.

well.. i must say.. im clinically depressed… due to my past life history through the present.. and if i didnt take my lil happy pill every day.. i would commit suicide.. its not a pill just to be on one.. it seriously helps me cope with all that i have to live with and have lived with.. its not a choice for me… as i just cant handle what i have been through in life.. and before you judge someone for taking medication to help them… you should know a bit about their history and know why they are on meds.

yeah, pescription pills alone aren’t the problem. some people really need those to re-balance their body’s chemistry so they can return to a normal life. it’s just the MENTALITY of so many people and families now that pills are like freaking fashionable accessories. at my school it’s common if not more probably to hear “oops i forgot to take my meds this morning!” than any other excuse.
“uh-oh, she’s off her meds” is hardly a joke anymore.

at my school almost everyone’s on medication for one thing or another. i actually go to a private school, so i don’t know whether or not this is as prevalent in public schools or in other places as well. it seems that parents just don’t want to deal with the child’s personality quirks and take them to a doctor to see if these things could be “smoothed out” so they’ll be easy to deal with. and most of these families have the money to spend on these pills, so i guess the temptation is just too great.

just think about all the greatest people in history, literature, or art. more than likely if they grew up in the same environment as today they would be prescribed on some medication or another to “fix” them. being different isn’t a disease. being different isn’t being broken. many people still need to learn that.

Against popular opinion … I will maintain my stance, medication is a cop out. How can one know if they have the capacity to develop coping mechanisms if they are not put in a position to HAVE to develop them.

Pharmaceutical companies make ALOT of money convincing people they can’t handle their life experiences without ‘balancing their chemistry’.

But, what ever, it is a fact of life, people ARE convinced that they need medication conversely, I am convinced that we have the capacity to handle our lives without artificial means. It takes alot of work and alot of struggle …

I, too, have been through alot in my life … and who is to judge one person’s suffering as greater than another. What I know, is that I was at a place ready to take my life and the lives of my children. I did not follow through, but I was there and I know I was there. No, cries for help, already did that… fell on deaf ears … I chose to live and to struggle through each day … knowing that I had no other choice. Stuck … here … to deal with the pain and the struggle. If I couldn’t take our lives … I sure as hell was not going to go on medication to escape the experience. I made a choice to stay and I would deal with it.

I have learned to deal with it. I have learned that it is a journey. Struggle comes and struggle goes. I learn that it is my responsibility to make my life what I want and that I have the power. I don’t have all the answers, but, I allow creativity to happen and the answers to come to me … in the mean time, I struggle, I feel pain and I wait … I ride out the wave of discomfort … eventually it passes.

Please be aware: I am not passing judgement, I am expressing my opinion and my experience.

essence hello again, Ive been bipolar for 15 years and have used medication in the past, to get me through the bad times, it has helped, but I feel that I can cope ok with out them when Im not Ill, but I have now an understanding of the way my brain funtions, This was through help from my doctors. I am now helping the university of Cardiff in a 5 year program to help other peolpe that suffer from depression. I think that its all a lerning curve and that doctor and people do not fully understand the way in which the brain works. But if we help each other to deal with these problems, it will get better results, hopefuly to keep people well. : ) x

:) that’s why i’m off to college to become a neuroscientist, essence! :]
i’m going into research, but i want to make sure that the brain’s chemistry becomes more common knowledge because people need to be aware of this ESPECIALLY because of the increase of psychological drugs. the brain isn’t some voodoo magic floating about in your head. someday we’ll be able to understand it more fully, and even if then a person truly NEEDS medication, we’ll be able to provide some that can actually help and never put the patient at risk. sometimes it feels like to me that we’re like those scientists who drilled holes in people’s head to perform brain surgery back in ancient times. alot of it is just hit or miss, and i don’t think that’s how we should deal with the problems of the body’s most vital organ.

I just dont want ppl to suffer the way I have, prevention is just as good if not better than a qure, Cardiff uni reserch is to why people end up having breakdowns, what can be done to prevent them. So they are studing the stress levels in familys over 5 year which I think is fab….: )

i had pills, I never took them, got all better, and doctor said i was all better because of the pills and how fantastic they are. Sometimes, people just need a crutch, we all do, its nothing to be scared off, none of us. We all have our little issues, get over the issues, don’t bury them behind chemical altering drugs that mess with your memory circuits.
Besides they take around six weeks to balance your chemicals anyway, how do they fix you over a 15 second commercial?! made outta opium?!?!?!
might try those myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i do feel sorry about the advertising though, its not exactly correct to advertise to people who are vunerable, thats why we have a ‘watershed’ for age (vunerability)type stuff. maybe one is need for psychological vunerability overthere?!?! (like don’t ever advertise, leave it up to the medical professionals) who knows. goodluck doods!

many people have chemical imbalances in their brains- its not just about a quick fix, its about rehabilitation. Most serious meds take patience and time to get the dosage right, etc…besides the meds you are refering to are not meant to be taken forever. they are meant to help someone learn how to correct the broblem with their behavior and dicipline. If anyone has been able to fix these problems without the medication, then those individuals never needed them in the first place.

i would like to point out, and i think i did say previously (on a different similar post, but touched on again here) that some people do need them, and it does help. But the way they are brandished about for minor common life issues these days is remarkable and slightly perverse.
Has anyone ever proved that chemical inbalances are actually the culprit or actually just a measurable bodily response to psychological problems?
I’m going to have to trawl the net to find that answer, i need to know that now lol! wish me luck!

im on pills. and it sucks. seeing i turned 18 in january its new to me to have the ability to choose if i take them or not. I was a minor so it didnt matter what i said. But i do know if i didnt go on one pill, if be dead. Im not disagreeing wiht you, i hate pills as much as the next person. id love to be off of them. but some i need. im on them for cronic migranes, birth control to control oviarion cyst ruptures…which happened and destroyed my ovory, bi polar, and OCD. I dont go off of them now, because who knows what will happen. ive been on them since 7th grade. 13 pills a day? hates it….