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Originally Posted by BudFox
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.
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Hey, thanks for this response. I'm not really in a position to argue the science, but I think other perspectives are interesting and will always at least try to listen if somebody does want to explain the science to me.
I'm right there with you on some of this--the need for holism in medicine and problem of tunnel vision especially. Other parts I have a different perspective--and I fully own that it's informed by my own biases. As a (mostly) former junkie, it's still sometimes hard for me to think of pharmaceuticals in any capacity other than "These ones get you high" and "these ones don't." Now that I take drugs actually prescribed to me, that's sort of translated into "This one seems to work" and "This one sucks I'm not taking it."
Sorry you've gotten some crap responses for the very common-sense idea that nutrition might be, like, important. And sorry about your Dx. Hope you're finding something that works for you.