Posted by alexandra_k on March 9, 2005, at 17:05:20
In reply to Re: Posters on this board, posted by zeugma on March 9, 2005, at 15:55:40
Thanks everyone.
To clarify a little, I don't tell people that they should go to a therapist instead of taking a medication.
I just mean to say that some symptoms (e.g., sleep, anxiety, pain) can be dealt with on multiple levels. I don't know too much about medications so I figured I didn't really have anything to contribute to this board. But when I hear people say that they have been on many medications and they haven't really helped, or they can't get a medication or whatever then I do think it is worth considering other options. Even as a suppliment to medication. But I think that my suggestions along these lines have not been well recieved...
It is just strange to me that people have decided that medication is the ONLY thing that will assist them. While mental illness is biological therapy and meditation etc etc affect biological changes as well as medications so I don't understand peoples resistance to the notion that something other than medication alone may assist them.
Especially when people are having problems with side affects from the medication which requires yet another medication etc etc and round and round they go...
It is hard to know where to draw the line as to what is appropriate to this board or not. Maybe I will redirect stuff to another board... But in general I don't appreciate hostile responses to my posts which are well intentioned.
I do know that medication assists a lot of people.
But then it is also true that therapy and alternative treatments assist a lot of people.
And studies have shown that a combination of medication and techniques typically learned in therapy is more affective than either one on its own for a number of conditions.Thanks for responding
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