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Deb; I appreciate your opinion & your story.
I wasn't posting this to "convince" anyone to just stop their meds based on a youtube video. I was attempting to do a good thing for the people who are either going it without medication or people who are struggling to get off their meds. Not trying to tell anyone that there is a right or wrong way to do things.
Anti-depressants do save lives. Some of them actually do work based on testing against a placebo, but there's also a great deal that don't. I don't mean to discredit that. And some people ARE on them for life because a lot of people don't recognize they have other options for self-improvement when all they have is a psychiatrist shoving meds down their throat. It honestly takes a multi-disciplinary approach in order to heal the whole self... Even with regular health problems, just taking a medication is only a portion of the healing process.
We've all been psychotic. You're preaching to the choir. Some of us here have been in & out of hospitals, some of us have been zonked on strong meds until it passes, & some of us have tried to find other ways to heal after going through those traumatic experiences. Everyone has different ways of dealing with their problems. No one here is telling you what to do, if you'd bother to listen.
There are already probably hundreds of small organizations trying to fight the FDA. As if she's going to make any more of a dent? It's true, the FDA needs new regulation. They regularly allow toxic chemicals in household products, genetically-modified food, & what have you... But attacking the government is just going to make her appear to be a lunatic. She's speaking about what she knows first-hand, which I think is reasonable.
I appreciate your point of view. But honestly? A lot of people here haven't been helped by meds. And a lot of them have suffered really terrible side-effects. And there are some, like myself, who seem to manage pretty well regardless of my symptoms & I don't think taking medication at this point will do anything but impede my own progress. I like to pursue other courses of intervention as a prophylactic approach from getting any worse. I'm not posting this video to advocate "staying sick" & neither was the woman in the video. She said that taking medication for your entire life WILL NOT heal you. It will control symptoms, but it will never be a cure or a replacement for genuine treatment.
But that's just my own opinion, which differs from yours & doesn't make yours any less valid.
It's never too late to redeem oneself.
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