Why do the people in the mental health field think that anti depressants are the only thing that will help you. They won't help you with issues, they just want you medicated so they don't have to deal with you. What is it with that?
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This is like painting over a wall that has mold on it. A coverup. These medications are really a coverup for the real problems and i agree, its to more or less, keep a person calm and out of the way.
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They don't. They understand the role that chemical imbalance plays in clinical depression - it is not something that is brought on by "issues", it is an illness that is treatable. Someone who suffers from depression should get the help they need and then they'll be better able to deal with whatever issues happen to be in their life.
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I cannot speak for people. Some {no, I don't know how many} may find it the easy fix. No talking, no expertize involved - just load them up will pills. I would guess that also some patients would opt for this route also.
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Sometimes it can be used to elevate your mood so that you can better concentrate on solving the problem. For example, an individual who is suffering from depression will have trouble sleeping. The insomnia will further decrease their happiness and it becomes a vicious downward cycle. However, I abhor those who practically fistfeed their patients medication and do nothing else.
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Psychiatrists are sometimes like that. Psychologists or family therapists can't prescribe meds. See one of them. (I was a psychologist for 30 years.)
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Some are that way. I went for over 20 years and all theycould do was pump me full of pills and tell me how bad my childhood was and how I need to leave my husband. They did not address the issues that during my military service I was attacked 4 times and hurt badly while on duty guard duty. I finally got out of la la land when I stop the medication and came back to reality and realized that going to the head doctor was what caused most of my problems. You help your self anyway. they just listen and tell you what they think you should do, but their own asses would not do it if they were you. They are so educated that they left reality of life. They no nothing about how the every day person lives.
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Anti-depressants are a tool. Like any tool, they are appropriate in some situations and not in others. More commonly with depression, they are a tool that is PART of the complete 'tool kit' needed to fix the condition. Unfortunately, compared to the other needed tools, medications are cheap and quick. Given the incentives in our health care system, doctors will tend to opt for cheap and quick because insurance companies won't pay them for long and involved therapy. It's often up to the patient to do the hard work of finding or creating the other 'tools' needed to cope with the problem. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20090305-000002.xml . . .
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It's called "Gimme your money, I don't REALLY care about your mental health, just the bottom line." Therapists are like lawyers, too many, too much money and generally useless.
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It's basically the same concept as when people use recreational drugs. It doesn't help with the issues, and only tricks the mind to believe you're better off being controlled by relatively unknown substance.
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Depression is very often a symptom of a physical illness or hormonal imbalance which the meds can help alleviate. The job of the clinical psychiatrist is to oversee a patient's medication and connect them with a proper counselor to help teach coping mechanisms and to talk through some of the issues that become primary focal points of the depression.
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To deal with the immediate threat of suicide or uncontrollable anger. Stress can and eventually will lead to anger and anti-depressants prevent that.
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They probably just want more money, so they push drugs on you. Sure, there are times in life when antidepressants are appropriate. When my depression gets unbearable and I am in a haze of suicidal-ness, I generally have to have SOMETHING to pull me out of it and keep me ok, just until I can regain my own footing. However, anti-depressants aren't going to "solve" your depression. Many times, they end up just being a cover up or a quick fix for your feelings, and some can make you feel like a zombie.
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I have a chemical imbalance. Nothing can fix that BUT meds.
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