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Originally Posted by Swabbingred
The diabetes comparison is redundant. Anyone who raises the similarity should stick it in their pipe and smoke it. Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases.There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. This is not to say that people do not get depressed, or that people cannot experience mental or emotional duress, but psychiatrists have repackaged these emotions and behaviors as "disease" in order to sell drugs. Brilliant marketing campaign? Yes, but it is not science.
To answer your question, mental illness isn't something that should generalize or define your intrinsic rhyme in life. Psychiatry has been reputed and renowned for its quackery and loopholes but to sit here and to think mental illness is anything more than a pervasive byproduct of certain elements in life is also, redundant.
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Some of your posts are contradictory it seems to me. There is actually a pretty big body of scientific evidence that suggests that psychiatric disorders have a biological and genetic basis. At least some of them for some people.
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Clinical depression is not like the sadness experienced by neurotypical people, and is distinct from it in characteristics, duration and intractability. Any person implying that all depressive episodes are treatable without medication are fools babbling about ***** they don't understand and haven't studied seriously, because there is an enormous body of evidence showing not only that a number of medications are effective in treating depression, but also that many such cases - particularly recurring episodes - are unlikely to improve without such treatment regardless of what other interventions are tried.
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Swabbingred;
Re: Going On Abilify
It worked wonders for me. It placated the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and quelled my underlying depressive symptoms. I did the same thing as you did, searched up on it and we probably watched the same clips on it and they all had an adversion towards it and it makes us a little queasy, doesn't it? But I did some further scoping and saw that many people benefited from it. They called Abilify the working-wonder-miracle-drug and that it did amazing things for them. (Un)fortunately, Abilify affects everyone differently. I got told by my pdoc that Abilify has stimulating properties and that it should be taken in the morning. 2 hours prior to taking it I was so lethargic and tired I couldn't focus on anything and was too fatigued to get through the day. I'd crash at 7pm and wake up 14 hours later still unrefreshed. That was the reason I weaned off of it. Don't feel pressured into taking anything you don't wish to take but there's only one way to find out if this could be your type of medication that suits compatibility. 2-5mg are relatively low doses, you might experience a tommy ache and other minor side-effects but this is just your body adjusting to it. Good luck.
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If medications are effective doesn't that suggest some physical or biological cause?
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Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
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Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
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Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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