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Originally Posted by silver tree
With all due respect, that is a personal opinion and not a medical fact. prescription medication are also mind altering. They alter chemical levels in the brain and therefore are mind altering, just the same.
World renowned psych Freud used to prescribe his patients cocaine! I wouldn't be so quite to trust one mind altering drug over another really.
I agree that cognition is altered with ANY chemical substance and that should be taken into consideration. I also agree that taking substances to alleviate or change feelings is not the best way to go. But I also see this an individual to the person and as long as the plan is to start therapy and work though things and ultimately stop this, a little white lie can't hurt imo x
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I agree that prescription medications being mind altering is a fact. Children are given what some used to refer to as speed because it's therapeutic in the correct doses. Others, who might take higher doses, take these illegally sometimes for the high.
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They make me "normal", not enhance or alter anything. I'm not given "happy pills" or emotion suppressants. I am given medication that keeps me from feeling suicidal and so depressed/anxious that I can't function.
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Your 'normal' is to feel depressed and anxious. The medications you take are mind altering and suppress those emotions. Not always, but this is one reason why some people abuse substances or take illegal drugs. It's often only to get to their own 'normal', to function 'normally; to feel 'normal'. Just like the child with ADD. Take too high of a dose, and that same child can feel over-confident, hypomanic, even grandiose. But it alters the mind either way. OMG-I can't even get low doses of Ambien these days (which I take as prescribed) without tons of hassle because people abuse these too for the mind-altering effects!
I am not trying to point fingers at you Hazel; it's the hypocrisy in the DEA/medical profession that bothers me, which influences my responses here.
This provokes similar thoughts about how I feel about the war on drugs/marijuana. Sanjay Gupta rocks!
Sorry for the digression...