Im so sick of people saying, Its not a cure! Its just a treatment! when talking about anti-depressants... Just. Wow... Thank you, random internet person, with no medical degree or basic knowledge of medical sciences... Thank you, for point out something that no one, including the pharmaceutical companies, have ever tried to claim. How does that make it bad? See, heres the problem... You have a huge portion of people who refuse to admit any positive benefit to medicines that have and continue to save peoples lives, based on the ridiculous notion that rocks can cure cancer and cashews cure depression. Do I care if you sleep with a crystal next to your bed for good luck or to fix an unwanted headache? Hell no... But I do care if that headache is found to be the result of a brain tumor and then someone tries to cure it by telling you to eat bananas instead of seek medical treatment. Look, you dont take aspirin to cure headaches forever... You dont take Tums to create a steel barrier of health safety around your stomach lining, and no one has EVER said that... No one has EVER made that claim... Just like no one has ever made the claim that taking anti-depressants is a cure-all for a chemical imbalance in your brain. Eating healthy does help, but it is not a magical cure either. Nor does smoking pot somehow magically make depressed people consistently happy, and in some cases it can actually make it worse... My point is, if you dont know what youre talking about and youre getting your information from someone who doesnt know jack about science or medicine, youre perpetuating a serious issue, spreading misinformation and putting peoples well-being at risk by trying to convince them that the cure to all their ailments is as simple as not taking medicine and relying on nuts and berries to cure this problem or that. If you want to promote healthy living, thats great! Go for it! But if youre trying to convince a bunch of clinically depressed people to not take their prozac, or trying to convince a schizophrenic to smoke pot instead of take their thorazine... Youre an idiot and a bigger danger to society than the medications youre trying to abolish.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:03:09 +0000
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