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Fair enough, but I live in a very wealthy area and most of the examples I'm thinking of are stay-at-home moms whose kids are now old enough to be in school most
by TallGuyShort 7y ago
Fair enough, but I live in a very wealthy area and most of the examples I'm thinking of are stay-at-home moms whose kids are now old enough to be in school most of the day. But they're still at anti-depressants like they're poisoned and it's the antidote. Not saying everyone should be seeing a therapist, these aren't the only 2 possible solutions to whatever they're suffering, but it looks to me like overmedication is for sure happening in a lot of cases.
- cookiecaper 7y agoOnce you pop, you can't stop. Washing out anti-depressants and allowing your body to return to a natural homeostasis is frequently a massive ordeal entailing physical fatigue, wild mood swings, serious hopelessness and despair, among other things. Adults can be quite dangerous to themselves and others during that process and it's important to have a patient and disciplined caretaker around to babysit for the duration of the weeks-long washout. Most people are not apprised of this when they start a medication -- they're just naively following doctor's orders. Consider that psychiatry is a racket where the conventional understanding is that any psych willing to mess with insurance companies is a hack, that every cash-only doc within 50 miles of a significant population has a 3-month waiting list and is generally choosy about their patient base anyway, and that family practitioners aren't willing to do anything slightly unconventional because the DEA will start breathing down their necks, and we have quite the mess on our hands. I'd suggest that you don't judge those SAHMs too harshly. It's a tough gig on its own, and throwing in "risk becoming totally non-functional" is usually not something that people can just pencil into their schedule.