It's incredible how something that is promoted as being so good for you can hold the potential to harm you as well. It really makes you wonder how many things in life are promoted as being safe and healthy for you, yet can be slowly killing you. It's amusing to think how doctors had recommended smoking as beneficial as well! I've heard many benefits of drinking green tea. In my own obsession with providing proof as I talk about things, I came across the side effects of drinking too much green tea, anemia. While something can be good, it is possible to be harmful at the same time.
Throughout the last century people were treated like guinea pigs with psychotropic drugs, especially children. Sadly the medical society was not completely aware of the short term and long term effects of these drugs and treatments they were developing. I see the effects in my life, as we were told my brother had developed turrets after being placed on many drugs experimentally. I can't go into many details for privacy of some of the people I work for, but I have witnessed some pretty sad side effects from the drugs that these people have been given for years. Some were placed on medications 50+ years ago. I read that Traverse City State Hospital had given patients cocaine as treatment for their mental illnesses! COCAINE! The medical community I would guess thought of their patients as guinea pigs to try different drugs on and see what happens. Makes me wonder what went through their mind.
In the last 20 years there have been huge strides made to advance psychotropic medications, drugs that adjust chemicals in one's brain. I am very impressed with how medications have changed, how there are less side effects, and how doctors are lately encouraging to reduce doses or eliminate unnecessary medications. I wonder where in the next few decades medication industry will be. Everyone is different so there is no magic answer to solve problems. Sadly some people decide for whatever reasons that they will self-medicate, or eliminate their medications. It makes it difficult for the person with the mental illness when they self-medicate, quit medications, or are not on the right drug or dosage. Their lives are a struggle as well as the people around them, who feel helpless. They want to help but there is no absolute correct answer.
Life is never easy. My favorite life quote from Finding Nemo was Dory and her chanting "Just keep swimming" with a smile on her face.
Throughout the last century people were treated like guinea pigs with psychotropic drugs, especially children. Sadly the medical society was not completely aware of the short term and long term effects of these drugs and treatments they were developing. I see the effects in my life, as we were told my brother had developed turrets after being placed on many drugs experimentally. I can't go into many details for privacy of some of the people I work for, but I have witnessed some pretty sad side effects from the drugs that these people have been given for years. Some were placed on medications 50+ years ago. I read that Traverse City State Hospital had given patients cocaine as treatment for their mental illnesses! COCAINE! The medical community I would guess thought of their patients as guinea pigs to try different drugs on and see what happens. Makes me wonder what went through their mind.
In the last 20 years there have been huge strides made to advance psychotropic medications, drugs that adjust chemicals in one's brain. I am very impressed with how medications have changed, how there are less side effects, and how doctors are lately encouraging to reduce doses or eliminate unnecessary medications. I wonder where in the next few decades medication industry will be. Everyone is different so there is no magic answer to solve problems. Sadly some people decide for whatever reasons that they will self-medicate, or eliminate their medications. It makes it difficult for the person with the mental illness when they self-medicate, quit medications, or are not on the right drug or dosage. Their lives are a struggle as well as the people around them, who feel helpless. They want to help but there is no absolute correct answer.
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