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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
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.
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Sorry about your father. That sounds awful.
I think with pharma medicine, a little healthy skepticism is not enough. The so called "side effects" are actually just part of the totality of the drug's effect (as one doc pointed out) and the fact that these adverse effects can manifest all over the body (some of them very serious) seems to suggest a systemic poison. Long term psych drug use seems to correlate quite strongly with declining mental and physical health.
In my experience most docs never get to other things not working. Drugs come first and last. Physicians and Psychiatrists are more properly called Clinical Pharmacologists and what they know is drugs drugs drugs. This is medicine?
I was diagnosed a few years ago with a condition (Pyroluria) that can lead to severe Zinc and B6 deficiency.
Deficiency of Zinc has been linked to none other than Schizophrenia. Not to mention Depression, Bipolar, and more. I have been mocked on PC for suggesting that vitamins or minerals might be important. Such is the delusion and arrogance and tunnel vision of modern medicine that basic nutrition is often skipped in favor of magic pills that merely numb symptoms.
Not knocking drugs in emergencies and crises, but beyond that I dunno.