Everyday in America, we are inundated with drug ads on TV , telling us who wonderful they are, that the pill will cure you, then at the end of the commercial, they are made to tell the side effects. The Brainwashing of America for money. Does anyone pay attention to the evils of presciption drugs???
NO ONE takes a drug without it having some negative side effect, even if it helps the immediate problem. Thank God I do not have any mental illness.
I do not like pharmaceutical advertising—I think it should be the doctors who do the prescribing. Although I don’t think prescription drugs are evil, I believe they should be carefully prescribed. They DO have side effects.
Mental illness is difficult. I know one man who had some psychological problems for which he was hospitalized and he came out of the institution with even deeper problems as an effect of the of the medication they put him on. That’s not uncommon and should scare all of us. But medications for mental illness has also saved lots of lives and improved thousands, millions, of others.
Someone mentioned demonic temptation. I also believe that there can be underlying supernatural causes to these illnesses that are too often not recognized by mental health professionals. And both sides are guilty. Non-christians don’t recognize this and some Christians attribute all mental health problems to it, which is also not true.
I have often thought that taking to time to care for family and friends—spending time with them and listening, I mean really listening to them, would take away a lot of psychiatric dollars from professionals. But I still think that medication is necessary for some people. I would like to see more care in dispensing it.