And god whatever you do, don't result to pharmaceutical antidepressants.
Try supplementing your life with natural herbs such as tumeric. A simple change of diet can make all the difference.
Dank, just stop it. There is absolutely no denying that antidepressants have legitimately helped millions of people. Yes, a lot of people experience negative side effects, and in some cases antidepressants exacerbate depressive symptoms, but a lot of the time all that's needed to correct the issue are proper changes to the medication regimen by a psychiatrist.
It's incredibly dangerous when you just state this stuff to random strangers whose biology and psychology you're almost totally ignorant about. One of the most common catalysts for psychiatric hospitalization or suicidal behaviors is when people *stop* taking psychiatric medications. In other words, a suicidal or high-risk individual typically reduces their risk while taking their medications, but revert back to being high-risk after stopping their medications.
Psychiatric medications are intended to bring a person back to their baseline status so that they can properly address and work through their issues. The eventual goal is to then be weened off the medication so that the positive changes still remain.
But please, for the sake of others, don't make Universal claims about medicines and their potential to benefit people. You're not a psychiatrist, nor do you have any clue about the actual properties of psychiatric medications and how they operate in the body. Statistically, the most effective form of treatment is a combination of therapy and medication rather than one, the other, or the absence of both.
This world isn't black-and-white like you make it out to be with every friggin' issue imaginable.
Not for or against Big Pharma... But i think your name solves the majority of it.
You're not a psychiatrist, nor do you have any clue about the actual properties of psychiatric medications and how they operate in the body. Statistically, the most effective form of treatment is a combination of therapy and medication rather than one, the other, or the absence of both.
Are you? Statistically? What statistics? The statistics conducted by who? I am not disagreeing that it is no good to recomend shit you don't know about, however, you're basing your evidence of statistics of what? The generation that publicized reefer madness? The generation that 10 years ago claimed marijuana was going to wipe out society, and is currently legalized in a number of states for its proprietary medical uses, the same ones that studies "claimed" to be false? What studies are these? Are you sure they are transparent? The numbers and studies conducted to support pharmaceuticals and turn people away from other substances uncontrolled?
If you are going to ask for merits, please sir, pipe up with your PHD, because as far as i am concerned your promotion of pharma, is notmuch different then the quote you were referring to.
My name "the joint" isn't a drug reference. It's more like, "Hey, welcome to da joint!" (Insert Joe Pesci face here).
I'm not a psychiatrist. But I have a post-graduate degree in the fields of mental health and social work and I was recently (and may still be) ranked #1 in the United States for both productivity and positive client outcomes in my role as a transition coordinator for a Federal financial assistance program the helps nursing home residents with a history of serious mental illness with community reintegration. I've also worked as a mental health counselor for three agencies which includes the adult psychiatric units of two Chicago Metropolitan hospitals. I've worked with literally thousands of clients being treated with psychiatric medications for all sorts of mental issues including depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia and delusional disorders, substance abuse of all types, personality disorders, chronic homelessness or incarceration, etc.
http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Mental_Illnesses/Depression/Depression_Treatment,_Services_and_Supports.htmThere are several types of psychotherapy that have been shown to be effective for depression, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT). In general, these two types of therapies are short-term; treatments usually last only 10-20 weeks. Research has shown that mild to moderate depression can often be treated successfully with either medication or psychotherapy alone. However, severe depression appears more likely to respond to a combination of these two treatments.
Edit: Interestingly, of all the clients that I've successfully transitioned from nursing homes to apartments or other individual living spaces, only one client needed to be re-institutionalized back into a nursing home. The reason? He stopped taking his psychiatric medications just a couple days after discharging from the nursing home (because he said he felt "fine" and didn't need them anymore) and was re-institutionalized within a few weeks. Interestingly, once he started back on his medications after going back to the nursing home, it only took a few more weeks for the client to re-stabilize back to baseline. He is now living in a group home with staff on site to monitor his medication usage. He has been doing perfectly fine ever since, and it's primarily because he is now remaining compliant with his medications.
Edit 2: It's also interesting to note that, although this is the only client I've worked with who has needed to be re-institutionalized after moving back into the community, this client was clinically determined to be the highest functioning client I've had on my caseload according to a mental health level of functioning assessment. However, the client scored so high when he was in the nursing home and on his medications. This serves as an indicator as to how much importance medications play in the treatment process. Our highest functioning client arguably became our lowest functioning client specifically because he went off of his medications, and for no other significant reason.
