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Thank you! This really hits home for me. It's exactly how i've feel but always get ridiculed for because of the sheer number of people who are prescribed it an

Thank you! This really hits home for me. It's exactly how i've feel but always get ridiculed for because of the sheer number of people who are prescribed it and that it works for them so I must be wrong. I don't doubt that some people really do need it, but I was not one of them (I didn't respond well to them) and I have a hard time believing so much of the population actually needs them too. But if anything, better solutions / alternatives need to be presented and made available before people are just thrown off something that has helped them handle some really tough stuff. But the problem with that is, then the drug companies wouldn't make so much money. (which, I think plays a large part of it)

kolinko 9y ago
It's not just that - it's that from a perspective of a psychiatrist there is no safer drug to get someone out of a deep hole. The thing is that people should be trying to figure out what was the underlying issue and whether it's possible to fix it. Not many doctors have the motivation to do this infortunately, and many patients don't either. I've met people with adhd and daytime sleepiness, who spent years on antidepressants. The effect was that they still couldn't focus, but didn't feel depressed because of that, and didn't even know they had problem.