Do you believe in medication or know that they work?
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Yes. I believe in western and eastern medicine. Wholeheartedly. I use them both.
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Yes. I know that medication works. I take it for migraines and sz.
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Partly. I have experienced a lot of medication helps in the short time for 1 thing, but messes up other things, disturbs the balance of our system, so it hurts in the long run.
Examples: in me antibiotics >> gut problems & psychiatric problems. Psych meds >> all sorts of problems. Aunt: hormones for ivf >> breast cancer (?).
That doesnt mean imo meds should never be used…just that we and doctors should be humble, realise we dont understand what we are messing with and that out body is complicated, and thus be real careful and prescribe as little meds as possible.
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The trouble with medication is that it may help but it hinders in the form of annoying side effects
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Poor doctors have to make godlike decisions?
Whats wrong with homemade medication without being paranoid that the police knocks on the door.
Medications can be helpful. I believe they have their place. It’s proven that they help in certain circumstances.
I do believe there has to be a better way than trial and error to find the most helpful treatments though.
And I do believe in general that the meds we currently have definitely need to be improved.
Basically we need better research and better results.
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I have a family, a career, and high quality of life thanks to my medications.
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Idk if medication is helping me but it may be so I go along with it
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I owe my life to Zyprexa, so yes, I believe in medication. I spent four years being severely paranoid to the point where I couldn’t leave the house. I was lost in the delusions of being watched and recorded, and I was having breakthrough voices even though I was on a high dose AP.
I started Zyprexa in mid-March, and now I am completely controlled. My paranoia is gone and so are my delusions and breakthrough voices. I have my own car now, I am going out on my own and running errands with no problem, I am doing a lot more around the house, I am volunteering twice a week, and I am searching for full-time employment to get off disability. Without Zyprexa, none of that would be possible.
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Yes. Is it perfect? Hm. No. But it works.
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I believe it is the best option we have at this point. Without it I would be permanently institutionalized.
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It’s not a religious principle. If it helps take it. If it doesn’t help or causes side effects, then don’t take it.
I believe we need to put more emphasis on the context in which people become and continue to endure so-called mental illness. As with “physical illness,” medical problems are socially influenced and the social world plays a huge part in recovery and relapse. We should try to maximize the resources available to people, understand where their problems are and how to address them, help them find meaning in their experiences of madness and mental distress, help them finding purpose in living and consider other things that might help patients find wellness.
In particular, I am very interested in nutrition and the therapeutic value of food and diet. I appreciate that there is not a great deal of evidence or research into nutritional interventions but think this is a very promising area and would like to see more research into this area. In general, I would like to see NIMH rescue itself from irrelevance and put more effort into looking at a wide range of different treatment interventions for patients rather than simply focusing on neuroimaging and genetics.
We desperately need alternatives to offer patients who do not want, and do not receive benefit from much of what our doctors offer. Given that the prognosis of schizophrenia remains poor, what we are doing is not working. There are small concerted efforts to look at other models of care. The challenge is much of what would benefit patients will not come from psychiatry. The establishment is not going to bite the hand that feeds them.
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I wish I can stop these meds. I have been working so hard and not losing weight.
A tiny bit of change in my routine makes me so sick. I don’t think I have schizophrenia but I have full blown mental disorder. I think it’s just dysfunction in my brain. It’s affecting my IQ, life and behaviour.
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this!
They all work just in a sloppy dirty way. Some more, some less.
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i do believe in medicine because look at the past of the world people lived to about age 30 on average and died over small problems that common medicine fixes today
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Yes, Zyprexa helps keeps me glued to reality.
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Yes. For most you get some relief. Medications have radically changed treatment for sz and psychotic disorders. Up till the 1950’s and even much later, most of us lived in mental institutions. For a few decades most of those are defunct and we live in the community.
So. Medication has proved to make big differences with treatment and outcomes. We always need better research and drugs. Treatments even. So yes. I believe in medication.
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Meds have drastically improved life for many.
My grandmother had over a hundred ect sessions.
I don’t know how she survived it all.
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