I do agree that there are sometimes when, for a short time, drugs are helpful. Also, for some defined conditions ( manic/depressive, schizophrenia, etc.), long term drug therapy may be needed.
But, the over-prescription of drugs for ordinary sadness and stress is something that I think is particularly bad with women. Frequently, the prescription doesn't even come from a psychiatrist-- the treating shrink may be only a psychologist, while the prescribing doctor is her gynecologist. It's really a messed up system for messing women up, and it goes on for years-- often what should otherwise have been some of the best years of her life. It's irresponsible, and yet the women themselves don't see it that way-- they think the doctor is always right and that they really need the drugs. Like I said, it makes me angry.
Because I have had bout's of Hormonal Imbalance which gave me a hosts of unbearable symptoms The Doctor wanted to put me on Prozac and Ambien for sleep I declined and found my own way in a natural and healthy sense to battle my condition, so the Pharmecutical Industry wasn''t able to make any money off of me!
"I do agree that there are sometimes when, for a short time, drugs are helpful. Also, for some defined conditions ( manic/depressive, schizophrenia, etc.), long term drug therapy may be needed."
True, but I believe that Scientology opposes even those.
I believe that only a psychiatrist should prescribe drugs, but how do you know that the psychologist or gynecologist in question may not have at least some psychiatric knowledge?