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Would you rather: "This just isn't working." "Okay, well we tried." Once you're in the "this isn't working" phase of your story, shit is pretty dire. Hard to
by diminoten 8y ago
Would you rather: "This just isn't working." "Okay, well we tried."
Once you're in the "this isn't working" phase of your story, shit is pretty dire. Hard to blame the caregiver for trying something else.
- jstarfish 8y agoHonestly, yes. The solution to something not working is seldom to increase its complexity and/or double or triple down on it. Bad treatments often exacerbate or inflict the symptoms they're supposed to correct.
- stordoff 8y agoIt's a difficult one because sometimes it _does_ help people. 50mg of sertraline does nothing (other than making me sleep less, thus aggravating the base symptoms), 200mg made me feel sick for a week, but after that I'm noticeably better (OCD).
- PavlikPaja 8y agoThe thing is, when there are so many people who insist it isn't working, or even makes things worse, (while nobody has much of idea why the drugs should work in the first place, and there seems to be a growing movement to try treating people with currently illicit drugs instead), maybe the drugs are actually not working and the "experts" actually have no idea what they are doing.
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