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Old May 09, 2014, 04:50 PM
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I read the article. "psychotropics cause disease" is a pretty broad statement. Which psychotropic drug specifically? If you say Meth Amphetamine I will readily agree with you. Psyche Meds I can't argue because I really don't know. AP's and AAP's seem to be the worse but I don't know the evidence. SSRI's? SSNRI's? Benzo's? Are side effects considered disease?

Are You At Risk For Diabetes and Obesity? If you?ve taken or take psychiatric drugs the answer is YES ? Beyond Meds

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Many of us who’ve been on psychiatric drugs (really any psych drug) have insulin resistance even if we’ve not developed diabetes
Really??? Any psyche drug??? The article provides no evidence to back up that statement. All the related articles listed seem to talk about inflammation and stress. I didn't read all the related articles but none of the titles mention psyche drugs. Inflammation, stress, toxins, diet, prevention.

I don't think anyone would deny that obesity and diabetes are huge problems or even epidemic. But you didn't provide any evidence that all psyche meds cause insulin resistance as the article claims and neither does the article.

This is my opinion but it seems to me that stress, inflammation, and cortisol levels are much larger factors in contributing to and causing disease than psyche meds. Again, which psyche med, which disease, and what evidence?

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Psychmeds play a role in the fact that mentally ill die 25 years earlier.
Where is the evidence that psyche meds play a role if that is in fact true. Seems to me all the issues mental illness cause like stress would be the primary factor and not meds.

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I don't think anybody has denied stress causes certain disease
I can't find the posts so I guess they were pruned but Venus said in one post -
"I do not think stress causes disease but psyche meds do"

I asked for evidence to support that statement. She didn't provide any.

I don't think anyone can deny that mental illness causes a huge amount of stress for many people. You can find tons of real life testimony to that in the depression section alone. I provided some evidence on how stress, inflammation, and cortisol contribute to and cause disease. I am not saying they don't, but I am waiting for evidence that psyche meds cause disease.
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