It blows my mind when I see the various cocktails doctors prescribe. They struggle to correctly anticipate the side effects from one drug alone and yet somehow they think they are wise enough to manage the interactions of more. 20 is just pure insanity. I feel like that many drugs completely overwhelms the liver and the other systems of the body. It also obliterates the digestive system causing leaky gut and all kinds of other issues. I see so many people with conditions they never had before they began meds and then they are treated as stand alone conditions to be managed with more meds. This system is BROKEN and prescribing meds like this is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

I feel like it sometimes goes like this: So you experienced depression, let's put you on an AD... Oh wait, now you're a little up, let's add a mood stabilizer. Oh now you're feeling anxious and can't sleep, let's get you some benzos. Now you're a bit delusional, time for an AP. Your cholesterol is too high, let's throw in a pill for that. Oh wait, your blood pressure is high too, we have a pill for that!

Could it be that the antidepressant caused the mania? Did the addition of the mood stabilizer cause anxiety? Did the combination of all that working on the brain cause paranoia and delusions because the med induced fog is too thick to allow for clear thought? And meanwhile did the body start to break down from all of the toxic interactions going on?

On the one hand I guess a person really can suffer from all of those issues individually, but in a lot of cases I feel like doctors cause comorbid conditions with their prescription happy pens. I personally experienced med induced mental illness and my doctor tried to medicate me for it.