My Anti-Depressants are in the garage
10-15-07 | 09:53 PM
#76
Spit out the back
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Silverlake, CA
I've found that antidepressants are to depression like a painkiller is for a broken arm. Both will dull the pain, but neither will fix the underlying problem. You still have to put a cast on the arm, and you still need to fix your brain.
In order to truly get rid of depression, you need to take positive steps to heal yourself. Exercise can certainly help, as can psychotherapy, diet, spirituality, good friends, and a myriad of other things.
In order to truly get rid of depression, you need to take positive steps to heal yourself. Exercise can certainly help, as can psychotherapy, diet, spirituality, good friends, and a myriad of other things.
10-15-07 | 10:19 PM
#78
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My mom has been on oxycotin for years.
Not a good story and nothing I want to talk about. Suffice it to say that you need to work hard everyday to protect your health and any doctor who keeps writing prescriptions is no better than a crack dealer.
Its easier to get someone happy and out of your office than to deal with the problem you helped create.
Not a good story and nothing I want to talk about. Suffice it to say that you need to work hard everyday to protect your health and any doctor who keeps writing prescriptions is no better than a crack dealer.
Its easier to get someone happy and out of your office than to deal with the problem you helped create.
10-15-07 | 10:54 PM
#79
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sorry, but that is ignorant...ever take an antibiotic when you have an infection?....my mom just needed one in the hospital after a post surgery infection....probably saved her life...ever see someone, who now on SSRI or other AD, can lead a productive life instead of never leaving their house??...God forbid your wife gets a serious staph infection, you'd be begging for drugs provided by a Pharma co. to "cure" her.....I work for a pharmAceutical company and sell the number one prescribed insulin in the world....my company spent a $hi+load to develop it and it has improved the life of thousands of diabetics who before had to use aging products to control their disease(and not that well at that)...I've been stopped by patients in endo offices and told that the product I represent not only gave them their lives back, but actually "saved their lives"...and the doctors confirm that...my company, through me, also provides thousands of dollars worth of this insulin free to offices each month to help patients who may not be able to afford it benefit from it...so do me a favor, instead of making huge, ignorant, sweeping, statements you should STFU.
I had a MRSA staph infection as a result of a surgery to repair a broken bone. If that big satan Pfizer hadn't happened to have some Zyvox (a new drug that cost them quite a bit to develop I'm sure), I would've been in bad shape. Really bad shape.
Additionally, a family friend is a medical researcher and has recently worked on projects related to Alzheimer's and cancer. Clearly an evil evil man trying to keep everyone as sick as possible.
Though in many cases Americans prefer medication to actually working to overcome their problems, this is part of a larger social problem, not drug companies. I think ryanspeer maybe had a little too much of the anti-establishment Kool Aid. Not everyone is out to get you buddy.
