I'm a student - I need some help...

bcarvings
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:37:19 +0000

Therapy alone is not going to make me feel better. Drugs are dangerous. Anti-depressents the second generation ones are relativley new. Many people report long-term side effects like memory, vision and stomach problems. Many people experience “brain zaps” when getting off SSRI’s. How do we know the effects of this? We don’t. What we do know is the drug companies don’t care to investigate these “brain zaps”, and I’ve read frequently doctors will deny that SSRI’s can cause memory problems even though it would statistically appear that they do.

I don’t want my intelligence decreased. I know therapy alone won’t work. The therapist is just a person, like myself, flawed and human. I don’t beleive I have any misconceptions about how drugs and therapy work, I beleive I know how doctors expect and think it works, and how it actually works. The money spent on drugs and therapy has increased as a percentage of total income on the average person, yet depression and mental illness problems continue to soar. I wonder why that is?