Mental Health. We’re Listening. What?
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
30 Oct 2003
In a recent survey, 19 out of 20 Mental Health professionals have admitted that they are depressed themselves. Due to the lack of energy and motivation that accompany depression, they usually prescribe medication to patients so they don’t have to extend as much effort treating patients with talk therapy. Apparently, these “doctors” lost their love of life after spending so much time getting a “higher level of education,” only to discover that the accepted forms of treatment involving psychiatric drugs don’t really work as well as the government, media, and other health professionals have led the public to believe in the past. Perhaps it is this “loss of reality” and the fact that everything they believed in turned out to be a lie which causes a noticeable descent in their emotional condition. Thus far, it is believed to be a chemical problem in their brain, brought on by unseen magical forces that have yet to be explained, but passed off largely as fact.
Recent statistical analysis of thousands of posts found in newsgroups by the actual people that have attempted to receive treatment indicate that after trying several types of psychiatric drugs, very little, if no improvement, has been made in their condition. This analysis cannot be confirmed as yet because trained professionals have not told us this yet, nor has the government or media. These are only common people that have been going through the ordeal of depression for years, truly the ones who are taking the medication, putting chemical after unknown chemical into their body simply because starting as children we are brainwashed to trust the idea that members of the medical profession genuinely want to help people, and that some promise Hippocrates made a while back – some type of oath – still holds true when expressed in verbal or written form. Until the general public is told otherwise, depression and other psychiatric disorders are still easily treatable, with the “right” medication, or the “right combination” of medication, and so long as someone with the problem asks for help.
It has been noted that in many cases of depression, people have undergone traumatic or tragic experiences in their life, either as a youth or as an adult. We are still investigating whether this may be a cause of depression, or if depression is just a bio-chemical imbalance that cannot be detected by real scientific data. Usually bio-chemical imbalances in the brain can be detected by shaking hands with your therapist. That’s why it’s extremely unusual for a psychiatrist or therapist to actually suggest some type of internal scan of the brain and it’s chemical content. If like many people, you have a doctor who asks you some vague questions then prescribes medication after only 15 minutes, this is because he has to treat a lot of mentally ill people in a hurry. As portrayed in many movies, mentally ill people will kill you or chop you up and then eat you. Doctors have to hurry up to prevent this from happening, so please don’t get frustrated if you believe your doctor doesn’t have enough information on you to prescribe medication that will affect your central nervous system, and the functions of your brain. Your brain merely controls your entire body and all your other essential life functions.
You can rest assured that your doctor has prescribed the right medication for you, until after 3 months when you tell him that you haven’t noticed any significant changes in your mood; the only changes you may have noticed were increased dizziness, nausea, vomiting, changes in bowel habits, seizures, stomach upset, anxiety, drowsiness, sleeplessness, sleepiness, insomnia, abdominal pain, decreased sex drive, increased sex drive, the feeling of being drugged, depression, and suicidal thoughts.
In a related survey, 30 out of 30 Wal-Mart shoppers told us that if they paid money for a vcr, dvd player, or television, they would not buy it unless they could return it and get their money back if it didn’t work, or if it caused their other appliances to malfunction.
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