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This seems like an odd perspective. Relative to not having medical problems, all prescription medication is bad for you. Most healthy people wouldn’t touch it.
by closeparen 4y ago
This seems like an odd perspective. Relative to not having medical problems, all prescription medication is bad for you. Most healthy people wouldn’t touch it. (The others are why you need a prescription).
The question is how the problems induced by the medication compare to the problems solved by the medication. You don’t want to be on an SSRI, true. You also don’t want to be tortured around the clock by your own mind. Which is worse? I’m no doctor but I think the accepted answer is “it depends.”
- netizen-936824 4y agoThe problem goes a bit deeper than that. Medications are currently being used as a bandaid to cover up the symptoms of our systemic issues which lead to mental health issues. Instead of fixing the systemic issues created by our capitalistic society we just throw medications at our children