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Originally Posted by BudFox
Both my parents had cancer. I believe chemo was a significant factor in my father's relatively early demise. My mother's breast cancer was treated with the savagery that is mastectomy, which destroyed her emotionally. The alternatives are many, but they are suppressed.
Seems it is controversial to say that cancer or mental illness or many other diseases can be cured by purely natural means that do not involve poisoning the body with synthetic drugs, or mutilating the body through surgery or other invasive methods.
How did we get to the point where someone who is struggling as badly as Eden is told that her main option or even ONLY option is to attempt to beat down symptoms with little plastic pills that cure nothing and endanger both body and mind?
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Sorry to hear about your parents. My father passed from cancer, too, and it's very hard for me to see how chemo did anything but make him sicker and more miserable. (not that it's anything I've looked into scientifically, just layman's observation)
That said, I would like to represent the flip side for anybody reading--It's worth getting informed about pharmaceuticals, sure, and there's nothing wrong with a little healthy skepticism--but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater, here. Synthetic drugs don't always poison the body, they aren't necessarily dangerous just by virtue of being medically-sanctioned chemicals, and plenty of people experience massive benefit with little or no unpleasant side-effect.
I love my little plastic pills. Hell, I've never met a drug I didn't like (Except maybe computer duster, if that counts). My only regret is that I didn't start taking them years ago. I think we got to the point where we recommend (and, yes, sometimes aggressively push) pharmaceuticals to people in significant discomfort because it appears other things are not working. And sometimes, for some people, in some circumstances, going from abject misery to stability really IS as simple as taking a pill. It really IS like magic. It really IS possible that a drug can make a massive difference for the better with little downside. I'm not saying this is always or even often the case, obviously. But if there is even a
chance for a positive outcome, well, why not at least try it?
This is just my view. I acknowledge I would probably feel a lot differently if my little plastic pills hadn't worked so well for me, or if I weren't "A Gramme Is Better Than A Damn!" kind of person.
Anyway, just the flip-side. Everyone's got the right to make these decisions for themselves.