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Originally Posted by vital
Dear trilogy31,
In my personal opinion, what you have described is horrible care. Here is what I think is the best plan, with plenty of options. The first step, it seems to me is to carefully look for purely medical or nutritional problems and to try healthy safe ways of getting better before immediately going for drugs that may have serious short and long term consequences:
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Thanks you vital for the advice and resource. I will definitely read through those links and possibly pick up that book for more info.
Most of what you said is completely logical and rational, but being depressed as I've been for so long, I was sort of optimistic that I could take some sort of short cut with the drugs. Just using my common sense, I've felt that drugs shouldn't have been part of an initial diagnosis unless I gave the doctor the idea that I was psychotic, but I am confident that I came across as a normal functional person who gave no indications that I was suicidal or a danger to others.
I am overall coming to realize there is no short cut to improve my life and that's why I've joined this forum to gain more information for myself.