Paul Dormer wrote:


"Bruce J. Richman" emitted :

If you don't need the meds for a purely biological problem that can't be
treated in any other way (e.g. psychologically, herbally , nutritionally,
vitamins, etc.), I'd suggest you stay off the meds.

Live well and prosper !

This encapsulates my feeling toward 'meds'. Remember we discussed this
a few weeks back? I was unable to express my thoughts so succinctly...
you are the psych, after all :-)


Thank you.


I now have *another* acquaintance on Effexor. This one claims - thanks
to the miracles of modern medicine - to be "able to cope" and "fully
in control" of a drug addiction problem. He told me this *whilst*
consuming said drug. The actual fact of the matter is, his pattern of
use has gotten worse. He went to the doctor to address a problem, and
sure enough he's now oblivious to it...

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days..



Unfortunately, it's sometimes easier to just keep taking mood-altering durgs
and desensitize oneself from unwanted stressors that way, then to take a chance
on confronting the world au naturel, so to speak. FWIW, Effexor, at least, is
not physically addictive, nor are antidepressants in general, but that said,
some patients *can* build up a psychological dependence on them. Ideally,
problems like drug addiction should be treated psychologically and, if
necessary for medical reasons, detoxification under medical supervision should
also be included (e.g. heroin, heavy alchol use, narcotic pain killers like
Vicodin, Percoset, etc., as well as heavy benzodiazepene use, e.g. Ativan,
Xanax, Valium, etc.). Interestingly enough, cocaine does *not* require
medically supervised detoxification.






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Bruce J. Richman