Let’s get this straight… they’re not ‘medicine’. They’re DRUGS.
They’re essentially two types: sedatives/tranquilizers or stimulants.
Medicine kills an infection or has some kind of more readily determinate effect.
DRUGS which play with brain chemistry haphazardly are going to create an imbalance. They simply do not ‘target’ any thing because everyone is different in their life experiences/brain chemistry/brain size/development. Yet despite those variances DRUGS are given without regard to these factors to people who are very young or only exhibiting what seems like a psychotic episode.
Drugs which affect the brain are potentially addictive and create withdrawal effects. It is not matter of fact that people stopping drugs aren’t in fact experiencing either ‘sz symptoms’ or actually withdrawals? People withdrawing from benzos alone can experience sz symptoms. That alone says a lot.
The drugs are not medicine. They’re more like alcohol. We have just accepted through consensual and a sort of ‘forced moral code’ that they’re ‘good’ when there is simply NO evidence for it.
There are plenty who will tell others too that they’re totally comfortable in ‘their psychosis’ and don’t need destructive pills destroying and messing with their brain chemistry.
It isn’t also likely that after a long period, like alcohol or other drugs, that people are simply developing ‘tolerance’ which is why the drugs negative effects are more tolerable? During this period the placebo effect is more likely to take hold to convince them of ‘wellness’?
Maybe some symptoms really are related to spirituality? We don’t need people forcing their opinions on people to put them to sleep via drugs and out of fear that the establishment has and enforces constantly on us.
It’s not an either/or between drugs and medicine. They’re both - much like the antibiotics used to fight an infection in your example, which are also drugs.
You’ve got to wonder, if these particular drugs are not medicines too, then why do they help so many people?
I had some really bad experiences with meds that didn’t work but still had terrible side effects. I don’t think I should have been forced to continue taking them.
That said, what I’m on now helps a little, and has few side effects.
I think drugs that are less likely to cause obesity should be prescribed in place of stuff like Zyprexa and Clozaril.
It’s not just “Oh, ew I’m fat” The extra weight causes serious health problems. I went from being a fairly healthy 14 year old to an obese adult with hypertension, diabetes, and sleep apnea. I lost a lot of the weight but my body still isn’t healthy. From the huge weight loss and diabetes, I have blood sugar issues that make it so that I must eat every 3 hours or get sick.
No doctor should just plug away at medicines that aren’t working and are harmful the way mine did.
