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Originally Posted by Skywalking
As to only using drugs in an emergency, some chronic illnesses like bipolar and schizophrenia require constant medication to stay stable. Going off of them, as a lot of bipolar folks can tell you, makes things far worse. Some of these drugs have to be taken for life to be effective. It's not the drug. It's the illness. It's a physical, biological chemical imbalance.
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But that's the thing, there is no evidence for the theory that any mental disorder is due to a chemical imbalance, and that psych drugs correct such an imbalance. 50 yrs of outcomes literature and data show the exact opposite.
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Originally Posted by Skywalking
This is a topic that brings out a lot of emotion on all sides, and there are a lot of perspectives to consider. And this thread didn't start out as a debate over it. But I find it hard to leave such statements unchallenged.
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Understood and agree about the emotion, it is serious stuff. But I can;t leave your above statement about chemical imbalance unchallenged either. If you make such an emphatic and cateogorical statement in a public forum, I imagine you'd have evidence to back it up?