"Modern Medicine" solutions to Bipolar and depression: More harm than good?

Question:

I have been diagnosed with severe major depression and bipolar disorder. When diagnosed, I believed what they told me and I swallowed everything they gave me. I became hooked on prescrip meds and stayed that way for years. During that time I tried suicide and suffered terribly. Every day was torture. I tried a million meds, everything they threw at me.

After years of this, I kicked the meds and I'm back to where I was initially. A few problems, but overall life is good. I've been off meds for about three years now.

I've known many people who have these problems and it seems to me that the diagnosis and meds destroy all the natural coping and leveling mechanisms you've built up until that point to deal with what you have naturally. Everyone Ive known that is heavily drugged on modern medicine's solutions becomes a zombie. Some make their way out and some resign to failure and defeat, lost in the servility of modern medicine's "treatments." Any input?

Answers:
Absolutely. First may I say congratulations to you for conquering such a difficult task, I know it wasnt easy, and needs to be acknowledged as a victory. Everything you said I agree 100 percent. Drugs is just an enabler. It enables us to be weaker and co dependent. I think that it is ironic that the reason why doctors prescrible pyschotropic drugs is because our minds cant cope. So their initail thought is to give us something that will make our minds numb to what were coping with. How is that helpful? All that really does it mask the root of the problem. I am a firm believer that the physical body is a manifestation of what the emotional body has endured. If we bury our emotions, and try to rid the memories of our past present with drugs, then how are we truly going to be able to recognize what is going on with us emotionally. Sometimes the man must surrender to the darkness in order to find the light. Does it feel horrible yes, but it's better then never finding the light because we dont want to see the darkness. For many years I dealt with a mother who was diagnosed with everything under the sun and was admitted to hospital after hospital. Doses of lithium, prozac, you name it, and none it helped. Nothing helped until my mother was ready to face some disturbing issues in her life and the choices that she made that caused these disturbing issues. Only when we see the truth and accept the responsibilty of that are we truly freed from the fear of the darkness, and then we find the light. My mother has been off of the drugs for 8 years now, and still has her bad days but with faith in herself and not the drugs she finds a way to cope

I'm with Tom Cruise on this one, a lot of these conditions are over-diagnosed and over-treated and sometimes the cure IS worse than the disease.

There are people that should be on atypical antipsychotics, but a lot of people perscribed it don't really need it.

My sister has bypolar also, she has been on different meds. over the years, because she "thinks" she's better then she quits taking them until somthing happens or she ends up in the hospital. She as well as everyone around her are so much better off when medicated. She isn't in a zombie state, she is then in OUR reality not what she thinks is reality. There are many kinds for many people it may be months or years before you find the right ones for you. There definitly needs to be more study on the disease. Good luck

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