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[thismoment]

Here's a book we've seen before, but as you know, good things get buried in the forum and forgotten.

 

 

YOUR DRUG MAY BE YOUR PROBLEM: How And Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications

Peter Breggin M.D.

David Cohen Ph.D.

 

Here are the Chapter Titles:

 

1.   Psychiatric Drugs- much easier to start than stop

2.   The Limits of Psychiatric Drugs

3.   Your drug may be your problem- but you may be the last to know

4.   Adverse Effects of specific psychiatric drugs

5.   Personal and psychological reasons for not using psychiatric drugs

6.   Why doctors tell their patients so little

7.   Plan your drug withdrawal

8.   How to stop psychiatric drugs

9.   Withdrawal reactions from psychiatric drugs

10. Withdrawing your child from psychiatric drugs

11. Understanding your therapist's fears about nonuse of drugs

12. Guidelines for therapists who do not advocate the use of psychiatric drugs

 

 

[Wagtail]

I wish I had read this 10 years ago, but I guess that 10 years ago I was not @ a good place in my life & wouldn't have been interested in anything other than feeling better.

[Clara]

Me too, wagtail! Still day by day here! Went to Lowes for paint today, getting out of the car and guess what, no purse! No money, no phone, no drivers license! Ugg! All the way back home and BACK to Lowes! But I didn't panic or have a meltdown.... yay me! 2 months ago, I would have gone into a crying hissy fit! Blessing to all!!!!  clara

[thismoment]

Clara, good for you! That's the best example of Acceptance I could think of- it's totally liberating.

[equuswoman]

:hug:lol I so R/T to crying hissy fit....been there, done that, not pretty!

[Wagtail]

Clara, I know what you mean ..I forgot my PIN number today @ the checkout .. Felt foolish but kept calm , then later I forgot my phone number , again I kept calm & it came to me .
All part of the journey I guess ... :-)

[CatLeeJones]

Medicine these days is a joke in that, spite Doctors taking the 'Hypocratic Oath', they break it everyday by causing harm.  Why don't they treat the causation of your malady? Instead, they prescribe drugs that only address the symptoms, cause more problems so prescribe more drugs. The answer is one word and one word only.


Money

 

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia....ippocratic_Oath

[thismoment]

Perhaps most of pharmaceutical medical treatment deals with masking symptoms: if the patient is quiet (or can no longer form a sentence), problem solved.

 

I read the Wiki-link on the Hippocratic Oath. Thanks it was interesting.

 

It's from the 5th century BCE, and here's the opening line which is my favourite part:  I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgement the following oath and agreement: 

 

Of course it has been modified many times. Also, most of these gods and goddesses are retired from active duty and have moved to the Peloponnesus where they lounge on the sunny beaches all afternoon and feast at the Endless Seafood Buffet and sip cool Ouzo in the evening.

 

Currently there is no legal obligation for medical students to swear an oath upon graduation. However, many do. "98% of American medical students swear some king of oath, while only 50% of British medical students do." WIKI

 

There are a variety of different oaths used by medical schools around the world. Many grads swear no oath.

 

I've always thought an oath is like any other contract: It's only as good as the person signing it.

[Xanazul]

I guess you may think is just corporate spirit but I honestly feel I want to, must to stroke a blow for the millions of physicians that do carry on their (our) job honestly and to the best of our knowledge.
Being in pain as we are it is easy and understable to address our rage against the ones that we will like (and many times believe) to be omnipotent to free others from pain and suffering. Medical science and knowledge has grown more in the last ten years than in the fifty before, and in those fifty more than in the entire history of the human race, but we human beings are so incredible complex, that there is a long way ahead before we will be able to develop the tools to heal everything.
Doctors are not almighty, neither have all the answers, we are only human beings most of the times feeling the anxiety, frustration and impotence of not being able to cure or simply alleviate the suffering as we have promised when as a symbol of our vocation and commitment took the oath (the actual, not any more Apolo, Sculapio, Hygienea and Panacea):

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

I honestly believe most of us have the will and the wish to comply but unfortunately nor are we Apolo, neither we live in Arcadia. Hopefully our children or at least our grand children will see not only a more efficient medicine but also medical knowledge and treatments being universally available.