hey.

maybe... it is offered in the attempt to counter some of the emotive promotion of products that is found in advertising and the like.

pros and cons
pros and cons

i do hear what you are saying about how sometimes you get to the point where you really are willing to try ANYTHING for some alleviation of symptoms.

i also hear what you are saying about how sometimes people find real benefits to taking meds - and it isn't even that they have had to hit rock bottom to get there.

but
pros and cons
pros and cons

it is hard to know what a balanced view would consist in.

i guess thats how come its great that lots of different people can post their different opinions - so hopefully people will get a range / diversity of views.

my psychiatrist encourages me to take valium more than i like to... i have it prescribed PRN. got 15 tablets prescribed over a year ago and i've still got around 5 tablets left. i'm wary of addiction because i do have a history of addiction... i'm also aware that a tablet helps me go from 'feel so darned intensely bad and upset and in emotional pain' to 'feel all warm and fuzzy and floaty and kinda pleasant'. there is a slight temptation for me to take more of them but i really try and reverse them for 'episodes'. but my doc keeps saying to me that it really is okay if i take them more often than that. once a week even. or for a whole week even if the week is really a struggle. i lectured him on the dangers of addiction i do believe and we had a bit of an argument about it ;-)