Meds cannot cure anything! Only the body can cure itself, meds can often help the body get back in balance or, if not that, make the pain or difficulty not seem so painful or difficult.

I think we all know stories of older people or people with mental health difficulties who are on multiple medicines such that it has gotten confusing and not so funny as:



But I think there are many individuals for whom multiple medications help. I think implying that all individuals taking multiple medications are necessarily deluded and would do as well without is simplistic, and as useful as telling a depressed person to just "cheer up" or a manic individual to just "control themselves".

Medication is not very good and certainly not perfect because we do not really know that much about the brain yet. On Wednesday my husband will be having gamma knife therapy (who names these things????) a type of radiation to the brain but it is possible when they get to where they can "see" after an MRI during the process, that they won't be able to do this kind of therapy after all and will have to do "whole brain" therapy instead. Yes, there are lots and lots of possibilities out there as to what causes an illness and what might help it but there is now also lots and lots of medical data and experience on what seems to help in what conditions.

Eating well, exercising and practicing yoga helps people with anxiety disorders but often, not enough. That one has to literally put poison in the body to kill cancer cells and that it kills healthy cells too is lamentable but beats the alternative. I had to take too much Levaquin back in 2003 when my appendix burst, for an infection, and now it has a black box warning, since 2008. But it helped save my life and I'll go with that rather than lament the other issues it left me with now in 2015? I think each individual has to try or not try whatever their advisor/doctor thinks will work and live with that decision on their own.

Someone else's experience with a drug might help me decide whether I want to take it or not but other people's non-experience is just their opinion, and not worth as much to me, or anything, if it is about a third person not ourselves: what I see looking at others' experience is worth more to me than what you see looking at others' experience.