Honestly? If more parents complied with the needed knowledge in how to raise a healthy well adjusted child many of these children would not have to comply with what is thought to be the way to address their DEPRESSION, ANXIETY ISSUES, PTSD THAT STEMS FROM YOUTH, BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS, ANGER AND FRUSTRATION TURNED INWARD AND NOT BEING ABLE TO DEAL AND ADJUST TO THE EVERYDAY STRESS SO MANY FACE DAY AFTER DAY. These are only a few of the mental illnesses/disorders that are constantly addressed with medication as an answer.

The truth is that though our brains may have some reptilian parts we are much more than just reptiles.
Reptiles that lay eggs somewhere that presents an environment safe enough for those eggs to develope and hatch. A reptile that is born to already know to run for the water or where ever to hopefully survive.
We are a lot more complicated than that. We are full of chemicals that respond to our environment and we need the right kind of nurturing to grow and become independant healthy adult human beings. We are designed to socialize and nurture one another to thrive and survive.

Snowgoose, I hear what your saying and yes, it is important that many people who suffer from MI get the treatment and support they do deserve from other human beings. Unfortunately too many human beings do not know how to support themselves let alone anyone else. And often there are therapists that are more clinical and don't really know how to guide someone with mental illness to understand their illness and where they never got the skills (not their fault) to deal with their low self esteem, anxiety and problem solving. Sometimes it is the blind leading the blind out there in the treatment field.

Non compliant? Oh boy, wow, that is really hard to back up when we really don't know for sure whether many of these medications being forced at people really DO WORK. Oh, yes, we can just sedate the world into zombies so everyone complies. We cannot truely determine the answer until we really know more about the human brain.

I myself ended up an a psychward, I was completely exhausted and in shock (I didn't understand it at the time) I exhibited every red flag that could have been addressed with rest and quiet counceling. Instead I was asked to take all kinds of medications, and some of them made me ill, very ill from the side effects.
That is the path taken, medicate, medicate, medicate and if the patient will not go along with that, they are non-compliant.

As I said in another post, are some people so mentally ill that they absolutely need medication so they do not harm others, yes. But there is such a constant message to address just about all mental illness with medication now that the thought of searching for an alternative can be and often is considered non-compliant, that worries me.

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