Posted on 11/18/2022 10:26:16 PM PST by TigerClaws
Consider that they have an alpha male to enable them to indulge being hystrionic instead of disciplining themselves. Imagine the women who do not have a strong male to anchor them, and how their lack of discipline and dependence on happy pills affects everyone around them.
There's just no getting around the dangers these drugs pose. Try not to be a cheerleader for drugging. Encourage weaning off under supervision, combined with clean diet, exercise, teetotaling, regular diagnostic tests, tests for food allergies, and some form of mental discipline, whether prayer, meditaion, yoga, karate... there's no excuse for avoiding full adult responsibility for oneself. How would they cope if you weren't there to lean on?
I'm speaking from bitter experience. I've had a lot of heartache in this life and many relatives and friends died young. After one colossal bereavement of a relative I had cared for over a period of years, I opted to take the happy pills. I quit my job in order to administer the estate along with a co-executor who was an in-law; whereupon the in-law stole $ six figures out from under my family— I was too artificially trusting and passive due the anti-depressant to take effective action in a timely way. That loss caused me to lose other critical opportunities because the funding intended for me due to my having cared for the deceased was gone; suing would have resulted in a break-even at best after the lawyer and accountant were paid.
I've had to deepen my faith and trust in God, especially in the dark times, because they are part of life, and nobody promised any of us a rose garden.
Yes. All I can say in the doctor's defense is that it was a small town, it was in the 90s, my mother was at that menopausal age, and our doctor was a coldhearted chauvinist who thought all women were hysterical idiots. Oh, he was such a jerk...
Yes. God first.
Every Millenial I know says they have some form of mental illness and can rattle off their medical condition from rote.
Every. Single. One.
Millenials can never just be sad. They have to be “suffering from depression”.
Millenials can never just be worried. They have to “suffer from anxiety”.
Millenials can never just be confused or having difficulty making a decision. They have to be “suffering from personality disorders”.
They have taken everything we have always normally experiences regarding lifes ups and downs and turned them into some form of psychiatric condition.
Everybody is a victim today. Everybody. SSDI is going to implode into insolvency with this group.
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Better check what percentage is your tax dollars at work.
Do an FOiA on medicaid in your state for how much madicaid payus for drugs for kids.
Folow the money... your tax d=$ via Medicaid.
My only psyche drugs are beer or wine after the sun goes down. But I like the tune -—”It’s gotta be 5 O’clock somewhere”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU&t=13s
BTTT!!!!
Joshua defined libertarianism on organization of the state of Israel. Choose whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
The first level of collectivism is the family. The Judeo Christian tradition is layer of an onion from there. Voluntay institutions of social control a one layer outside the famiy. These are the churchm, the PeeWee League.
Local government is the first layer of government. Most Libertarians say Self control is the first level of government. Family is the second level of governemtn.
Destruction of the family and local government is the goal of those who favor big central government in DC... or the Hague.
What is the libertarian plan for suppressing bolshevik revolution?
Pushing the leaders out of helicopters seems to violate the NAP. /s
From the beginning of my adult life choosing my own doctors, that has been my experience more often than not the several times when I had something seriously wrong—at least with the allopathic docs. In the past 20 years after multiple misdiagnoses and lost time and money, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about prevention: diet, exercise, vitamins and minerals, and how to avoid allergens and carcinogens. It's a world of knowledge the M.D.s fight against. I've had to prove the worth of supplementation over and over whenever I've had to move to a new primary physician, usually by going off supplements for six months shortly after hearing their routine denunciations and put-downs, and then showing them how my blood test scores compared with the ones when I was taking a vitamin/mineral regimen.
At the beginning of the plandemic I heard the raft of "safe and effective" propaganda from my doc, which I resisted; and about a year later after not having gotten either the vax or the Covid (thank God), I got pious advice from my doc to take Vitamin D, C and Zinc, which I had already been taking for 20 years—I had submitted a list of all my supplements when meeting my doc for the first time. She got mad when she realized, and didn't want to order a blood check of my latest Vitamin D levels because it was for her like a Democrat being forced to admit Trump had controlled fuel costs and kept us out of war—even though Vit D is not just about resisting Covid, but also resisting breast cancer and a load of other ailments. Then I got mad.
I'm really fed up with my Part D plan and am looking into changing so I can hope to get a better doctor. I really hope the government doesn't try to make the vax mandatory for government patients (Medicare, Obamacare, etc).
And PS, given the topic of this thread, I recall when looking back that every time I did have something seriously wrong (appendicitis, gallstones, a couple of other things requiring surgery), doctors first told me that what I needed were anti-depressants. The first two times I believed them and took the “mother’s little helpers”, with the delay before surgery resulting in a much worse condition and longer recovery than if they had done the correct diagnosis in the first place.
Truly, BigPharma has them utterly brainwashed and co-opted. I had relatives who were docs. They received dozens of gifts, wine, fruit baskets, luncheons, dinners, items of merchandise with the drug company’s logo on them, and travel to “medical conferences” in Las Vegas, Hawaii, etc. One of them said porn films were shown at one of those junkets in the 80s. The whole sales gimmick of sending these “drug reps” to fill the doc’s shelves with drug samples and to bribe them with gifts is scandalous. Don’t think that a lot of docs haven’t become hooked on opiods or benzodiazepines themselves by dipping into the drug samples. My one (married) drug-abusing physician relative was having an affair with a drug rep. Revolting.
Crazy exceptions don’t negate that lexapro works for many
Id bet my life plenty women on this forum take it especially post menopausal
The tendency here is to generalize and throw out the baby with the bathwater
Dealing with someone who takes it I’m very glad they do
Most nervous folks I know if they don’t grin and bear it drink or something
I prefer to see them on lexapro
Hear me now, believe me later. It’s free country.
And truly, it is an individual choice, which I respect.
Imagine if the pharmacy on Capitol Hill shut down for a month.
Imagine if teachers and administrators suddenly had no access to their own psych drugs. (I’m not talking about the ones students take, but I tell you, a sane teacher with a classroom full of kids whose meds have run out will need medication or a vacation within three days of that.
Of course Lexapro has made life better for many people. It has the potential to help people who can help themselves or get help from others. Help means therapy, activities, mental exercises, etc which result in an better ability to deal with stress. That can build into a possibility of tapering off the medication, although probably better just to stay on it or a lower dose.
What does Lexapro not do? It does not fix anything. It mostly masks anxiety. It slowly "rewires" the brain to the benefit or detriment of the patient depending on their other therapy writ large. Positive results will come from positive relationships and activities. Negative results from the opposite.
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