Do you believe people with mental illness should be medicated or not and why?

Question:

My feelings are that if a person has the coping skills to survive and cope with everyday stressors then why take a mind altering med. But if you can't function at all with out meds then that is your choice to take the med if it helps. But there has to be other ways of coping then popping a pill to help. So please help agree or disagree just try to give some help to the mentally ill people. After all we all are not so normal are we?

Answers:
this is a great question, some pills make a big difference between someone being able to function in society/. However drug companies are corrupt IMO, and are after treating it, not curing.

Other Answers:
All the medications for mental illnesses are not as harmful as you are thinking. While mental illnesses are still the least understood ones in modern medical science, for some illnesses drugs can help the patients to live an almost normal life and if there exists a facility where a person can be helped, why shuould't they use it?

If popping a pill can help a person from infections like common cold to chronic diseases like cancer, why should we think mental illness as a separate category?

They should be however not to the extent that the medical profession does currently. Have you and Tom Cruise been talking? Are you a scientologist?

I doubt you know anything about this subject and are just voicing an opinion, which is fine, but harmful.

I think medicines can be very helpful to people with severe mental illnesses. But I'm also with you on the fact that if you CAN go without them and use alternative treatment, then by all means, go that route. We turn to medicine too quickly these days to fix EVERYTHING. What happened to just taking a little rest and letting your body heal itself? I, myself, always try to make it without medicine because the more antibiotics you take, the more antibiotics you come resistant to so that when a time coems that you really need the help, your body might not accept the medicine they are trying to give you.

When people do decide to take medicines for mental illnesses, I think it's very important for doctor's not to OVERMEDICATE them. That seems to be the solution for everyone today. Everyone wants to feel PERFECT and that's not the way it goes. Life deals us things that it means for us to deal with on our own, including things like depression and anxiety. I hope people can learn to live with their diseases and stop trying to fix everything through medicinal ways. Please don't think I'm some crazy Tom Cruise telling people not to take medicine for PPD. I'm just a simple girl that sees nothing wrong in doing things the old, simple way. Those people survived it then, why do we think we can't now?

I am of the belief that mental illness may have a physical cause and that most routine medications for stress, panic, etc., while helping, do not help the doctor diagnose the physical causes.

If I was a doctor, I would have all my patients with chronic problems undergo a few simple, but not usual, blood tests, to rule out the possible physical causes for their mental illnesses, basically a fasting blood insulin test. If insulin is high or abnormally low, it can lead to the overproduction of some other bodily chemicals, and the under production of others, which might lead to brain chemical imbalance, which might lead to mental illness.

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