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Originally Posted by lolagrace
Many people who deal with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, who deal with the manic, severe depressive, and psychotic episodes that can and often do occur with these serious mental illnesses need medications.
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I have pretty severe depression. I would not touch SSRIs or other psych drugs.
Again, the data is out there, these drugs wreck brains and wreck lives over the long term.
I think the basis of all this drugging is the idea that mental illness is biological in origin AND that this hypothesis has been proven scientifically and borne out by studies. According to this book none of that is true:
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America: Robert Whitaker: 9780307452429: Amazon.com: Books