Nobody Is Talking About The Record-High Number Of Americans On Psychiatric Drugs, Including Infants

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[BipolarBob]

This article is sooo depressing, I need a little pick-me-up to get me going again. I picked a bad week to give up meth.

[BobL]

“they suicided
or they moved to the woods.
or they were killed.”

Definitely so, but the rest of society wasn’t filled with mind-altering drugs.

[Jeff Chandler]

I just saw a TV commercial about a new pill that will cure that....

(O.S. spoken very quickly) Side effects may include projectile vomiting with simultaneous explosive diarrhea.

[hinckley buzzard]

There definitely is a place for psychiatric medications, judiciously prescribed and used as prescribed. Some of them have been real game changers for many patients. The profligate over-use of them is due in part to advertising, which you previously never saw on tv; overworked and undertrained doctors who lump everything into the anxiety/depression bag, because “we’ve got a pill for that,” and the general decay in the culture, which seeks instant gratification and relief, and will demand to get it with the last amount of effort necessary.

Soma, anyone?

[Chickensoup]

Alcohol opium

[A_perfect_lady]

the first thing checked when a person is in a psych hosptial is their thyroid. and with any mood disorder.

I'm glad, because I've seen.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The country is f***ing insane.

So there’s that.

[firebrand]

Wasn’t that a great movie? Started out as a school project of Lucas’s or something like that.

As soon as the people were off the drugs, they could see everything the way it really was. Lot of things can be like drugs, not just drugs themselves.

[firebrand]

Thorazine wasn’t used before the fifties. It’s a terrible drug with lots of creepy side effects.

[SaveFerris]

Yes I think that’s possible

[SaveFerris]

Yes

[SaveFerris]

Heh

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sure ‘life is tough, but I do wonder how many people were on psych drugs during the Depression, or during WW2, particularly in Europe? How about the Civil War, or trying to live in a fort under siege?

Alcohol and the "sweet juice of the poppy" plus a bunch of other herbal drugs and various molds and fungi have been used since Year Dot.

Heck even the Bible talks about it.

Psalms 104 and Proverbs 31 are two places where alcohol is mentioned to "lighten the heart".

[wardaddy]

Everyone can’t fix themselves

[wardaddy]

My family is full of women who need it and I’m happy they take it

[Albion Wilde]

Hello! Good to see you back!

[Albion Wilde]

I hate to break it to this forums steady line of one shoe size fits all But some folks especially women NEED LEXAPRO AND ARE HAPPIER ON IT!

Read the article, FRiend. Some morons are giving psych drugs to infants. They're growing another crop of mass shooters.

[Albion Wilde]

[Dr.] was just like, “Oh, it’s your thyroid.” He seemed irritated at having to do his job.

It is one of the most common and least understood diseases out there. It literally robs people of the joy of living, and untreated can bring about much more serious illnesses or death; but the onset symptoms are subtle and look like many other conditions.

It's so common, yet with many variations in individuals; there's really no excuse for doctors not learning more about it, doing the proper tests and developing a good diagnosis and treatment plan.

[Albion Wilde]

Stay off of all the meds you can. Eat clean. Exercise. Drink water.

Excellent. Also, have an active relationship with God. Pray and read the scriptures. Have a group of spiritual supporters. You're fortunate if some of them are family.

[Albion Wilde]

"I just saw a TV commercial about a new pill that will cure that.... (O.S. spoken very quickly) Side effects may include projectile vomiting with simultaneous explosive diarrhea.