Can you please talk about how you get off an anti-depressant successfully? I've read and seen many stories by people that wish they never started them because of how difficult or impossible it was to come off them. Bc of this, I don't really see antidepressants as an option although I really like that you said you were then able to use psychotherapy to retrain your brain...that sounds amazing.
I love your point here about a "holistic plan." As a clinical psychologist in training, I see first hand how each patient (human) is unique, and understanding that there is more than one path, more than one combination of solutions to healing, is essential to helping each individual. Thanks for a great article.
wow - this is not my message whatsoever - medications are only part of a larger arsenal of tools to address depression - hence my podcast title "Beyond the Prescription" ;)
So to clarify... What you are saying is medications are one of the tools to address depression as therapy is one of the tools? As in dealing with the problem? Did I get that right?
If I got that right: The problem we're dealing with is? Depression right? So we first and foremost have to figure out what is causing the depression right? Is medication able to solve the cause of depression? Is therapy able to solve the cause of depression?
Think about it.. Like really think about it.. Forget what you've been taught or told. Medications only fight the symptoms -not even talking about the negative side affects of anti-depressants- but like mentioned before, the moment you stop taking them, all unsolved problems by any of the other tools in the larger arsenal will instantly be back. If you take one of the other tools from that larger arsenal, like therapy, the cause of the depression is addressed and it will have a definite result without negative side affects.
Now, would medications work without any of the other tools?
Would therapy work without any of the other tools?
For myself the answer is pretty clear.
Use all the tools in the arsenal that address the real problem -the cause- first. If that isn't working. Well... If there is no solution to the problem -which I refuse to believe- and one is desperate to keep a physical body alive.. Drug them down and keep them floating in a bed of flowers and sunshine till the drug kills them.
Again. I'm not saying one can't have a different opinion than I have. I just hope to open some eyes.
Can you please talk about how you get off an anti-depressant successfully? I've read and seen many stories by people that wish they never started them because of how difficult or impossible it was to come off them. Bc of this, I don't really see antidepressants as an option although I really like that you said you were then able to use psychotherapy to retrain your brain...that sounds amazing.
Yes. This is a great question and one I will gladly answer in another post!
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Thank you for this article. It’s a helpful perspective and I really appreciated the part about depression hijacking things.
I love your point here about a "holistic plan." As a clinical psychologist in training, I see first hand how each patient (human) is unique, and understanding that there is more than one path, more than one combination of solutions to healing, is essential to helping each individual. Thanks for a great article.
Appreciate the feedback, Kay!
This is basically an anti-depressant add. Click now and get 50% off! It's amazing Jim!
It's probably legal where this article was written and that's what shocks me most.
Where I live, pharmaceutical adds are illegal and this article once again proves me why.
Here... Take this magic pill and all your worries will fade away!
Keep taking this pill though, because they will all slap right back into your face when you don't.
Sorry for not being sorry if this offends anyone.
I hope it opens some eyes.
wow - this is not my message whatsoever - medications are only part of a larger arsenal of tools to address depression - hence my podcast title "Beyond the Prescription" ;)
So to clarify... What you are saying is medications are one of the tools to address depression as therapy is one of the tools? As in dealing with the problem? Did I get that right?
If I got that right: The problem we're dealing with is? Depression right? So we first and foremost have to figure out what is causing the depression right? Is medication able to solve the cause of depression? Is therapy able to solve the cause of depression?
Think about it.. Like really think about it.. Forget what you've been taught or told. Medications only fight the symptoms -not even talking about the negative side affects of anti-depressants- but like mentioned before, the moment you stop taking them, all unsolved problems by any of the other tools in the larger arsenal will instantly be back. If you take one of the other tools from that larger arsenal, like therapy, the cause of the depression is addressed and it will have a definite result without negative side affects.
Now, would medications work without any of the other tools?
Would therapy work without any of the other tools?
For myself the answer is pretty clear.
Use all the tools in the arsenal that address the real problem -the cause- first. If that isn't working. Well... If there is no solution to the problem -which I refuse to believe- and one is desperate to keep a physical body alive.. Drug them down and keep them floating in a bed of flowers and sunshine till the drug kills them.
Again. I'm not saying one can't have a different opinion than I have. I just hope to open some eyes.