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The problem is that most of these medications have bad side-effects and only suppress the symptoms. It's not that these drugs are inherently evil, but that they

by Strom 9y ago

The problem is that most of these medications have bad side-effects and only suppress the symptoms. It's not that these drugs are inherently evil, but that they are erroneously used way too early and often. The biopsychosocial model [1] is ignored more and more. That is, social and psychological factors are given less and less weight. For example, someone who is working an unfulfilling job in a big city is too easily prescribed some SSRI instead of promoting a career change and heavily increased social interaction to form deeper relationships. The trend even just among biological factors is frightening. Classic example being bad diet. Promoting improved eating habbits and exercise is increasingly looked at as body-shaming. Because this removes personal responsibility. It's easier to tell someone that they just have bad luck with their brain chemistry than to point out that their life choices suck. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model

vegardx 9y ago
You can't really do anything else than suppress symptoms on a chronic illness. ADHD is a chronic illness. You don't use SSRIs to treat ADHD. Full stop. I'm not sure what your point about SSRIs is, it's used to treat entirely different things. Some of your claims tells me that you're just reiterating the same nonsense that people with absolutely no experience in the field keeps saying. Being diagnosed with ADHD takes years. During these years you are given a number of tools to suppress the symptoms, including dieting, exercise and forming strict routines to live by. The medication helps you to stick to those routines, to help you back when things in $life becomes unpredictable, for reasons outside of your own control. Either one of them alone won't be very helpful, and that is something anyone with ADHD can tell you. Furthermore, most medication used to treat ADHD has a very short half life, and is typically out of your system anywhere between 1-2 hours to 8 hours. People are not medicated at all times, and most people prefer to be medicated as little as possible, because yes, there are side-effects. And nobody diagnosed with it takes them lightly. You know what is easy? To sit on the Internet and make statements that have no ground in science and general practice. And some people do have bad luck with their brain chemistry. I hope you never get a chronic depression or something similar and have to meet your own arguments about life choices in the door way.

by Strom 9y ago

vegardx 9y ago

You can't really do anything else than suppress symptoms on a chronic illness. ADHD is a chronic illness. You don't use SSRIs to treat ADHD. Full stop. I'm not sure what your point about SSRIs is, it's used to treat entirely different things. Some of your claims tells me that you're just reiterating the same nonsense that people with absolutely no experience in the field keeps saying. Being diagnosed with ADHD takes years. During these years you are given a number of tools to suppress the symptoms, including dieting, exercise and forming strict routines to live by. The medication helps you to stick to those routines, to help you back when things in $life becomes unpredictable, for reasons outside of your own control. Either one of them alone won't be very helpful, and that is something anyone with ADHD can tell you. Furthermore, most medication used to treat ADHD has a very short half life, and is typically out of your system anywhere between 1-2 hours to 8 hours. People are not medicated at all times, and most people prefer to be medicated as little as possible, because yes, there are side-effects. And nobody diagnosed with it takes them lightly. You know what is easy? To sit on the Internet and make statements that have no ground in science and general practice. And some people do have bad luck with their brain chemistry. I hope you never get a chronic depression or something similar and have to meet your own arguments about life choices in the door way.