KFactor!
There was nothing non-literal about it... At best, I was a little more upset than anything. .-.
Like I said I'm not down with constant medication but you know, you NEED to be put on anti-depressants before you talk to someone about your problems so you'll have a "clear head" *sigh*
In other news: Apparently my professor STILL hasn't signed the sheet so I'm still in there. stare And today I went to the Italian Festival, which was okay... Speaking psychologically... I can't agree with you at all. The anti-depressants nuetralize emotional intensities and as a result make you detatch the emotional intensity from the thoughts, memories and actions. Talking to a therapist while on meds is hundreds of times less effective than talking to them while un-medicated. The reason for this is because to truely work through the emotions you need to experience them without fear of them. That's impossible to do when medicated.
The one and only time medication is appropriate is when the person is over the age of 21 and they refuse to face thier problems and as a result need something to allow them to function in their day to day life.
Otherwise... meds are just bullshit.
Speaking physically or chemically (meaning the medication may help with the healing process but it's certain you will come off the meds OR there is absolutely no way to fix a physical condition so you're being medicated to try to keep you patched up longer) then take whatever your doctor tells you to at your own disgression.
However... the high majority of medications perscribed are completel unecessary.
If you're violent, you should be locked up anyways. You shouldn't be walking the streets relying on a pill.
Tylonol isn't applicable. it's not a perscription and there is no risk of dependancy or side effects for proper use.
Alzheimer's applies to "a permenent condition that is uncurable".
ADHD isn't real.
Anti-depressants don't help someone slowly get over a loss. Here is why...
They do not stimulate endorphines. They introduce a chemical replacement. Over time dosage needs to be increased to compensat for tolerance. If you don't the depression sets back in. If they've been on it longer than a month they come off it they have a week of withdrawal symptoms and then they remain depressed usually for quite some time because thier body hasn't needed to produce the natural endorphines for such a long time due to the chemical replacement that they forget how. It usually takes weeks before they begin natural production again. Also it's a standard that whatever was depressing the person when they went on the meds will come back after they are off the meds. So after all that time if your grandmother had come off of them meds she'd be back where she started and at a much more severe disadvantage.
As a result of the above facts, most people who try to come off anti-depressants are back on them a week or two later. A good number of suicides are cause by people who were on anti-depresants and came off them for one reason or another, (normally because the false sense of feeling good tricks them into thinking they're all better so they quite cold turkey and crash).
I've watched many people I grew up with who were given meds for "depression" or "ADHD" as teenagers and because they've been taking them so long and have never had an adult existance without them... they will never be able to come off the meds without severe distortion. Most meds are ******** up.
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