yep. this is a big no brainer, but it's nice to hear it from someone who was on the inside. it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to realize that companies are in the business of making money and care very little about who buys the product so long as enough people buy the product so the company can turn a profit. that's why there's no cure for cancer, a disease that has drugs that cost in the thousands of dollars PER DOSE to minimize the spread of cancer. can't make any money if you cure things.

doctors, medical journals, televisions, congress. just about everyone is in the back pocket of drug companies. i mean, really, how can we trust a new drug study that was performed by the company that manufactures the drug? independent studies without drug company influence are the way to go.

take schizophrenia for example. it's a disease that's hundreds of years old. can you honestly believe that researchers are doing their best to figure out what causes it and subsequently what can cure it? i highly doubt it. oh, but boy do drug companies know how to keep us shoving money in their pockets. or look at HIV. we know what causes it, and how to keep it from killing people (antiviral drugs that need to be taken for life = money in the pocket of drug companies).

bleh. i could rant all day about this. as far as sz is concerned, drugs are our best option to control the nastier symptoms. but i'd like to point to an article on the front page of psychcentral that says we're about 50% more likely to die of a heart attack because of smoking, lifestyle, and diabetes and metabolic syndrome, both of which are caused by second generation APs. for a lot of people, the drugs do work, but make no mistake that they are a poison. there is always a trade off with medication. are the potential side effects worth the risk? it's a question all of us should ask.

thanks for sharing the video. i'm tempted to watch the other ones she's got posted.