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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Please don't take this as an attack Suzz04, but there is no emotional disorder that requires medication. Depression, SAD, OCD, panic attacks, ADD, ADHD.. whatever the flavor of the week is -- it's still something that can be solved by anyone with logical faculties, the desire to change it, and the motivation. The only person who REQUIRES medicine lacks one of the above (usually motivation or logical faculties).
For every story of "how the meds saved me" theres twice as many who worked it out, either by themselves or the counseling of a trained professional. No manner of pseudoscience or anecdotal experience will ever convince me otherwise.
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I tried to work it out.
I couldn't. Medication was the only thing that worked. Of course, I have a family history of depression and bipolar disorder, so the deck, shall we say, is stacked.
Some of us do have chemical imbalances and desperately need the medication to assist us. It is not a matter of being weak or not trying to use alternative means; as stated in my original post I have used or attempted to use alternative means to control my depression and anxiety, but I find that medication deals with the major symptoms whilst meditation, massage, mental exercises, and other things deal with more of the fringe symptoms.
I do think that certainly these disorders are overdiagnosed, but the fact is that many of us DO suffer from these problems and need medication to deal with them. I know you didn't mean to offend, JinnKai, but you need to understand that many of us are dependent on our medication to even live a remotely normal life (I need mine to get out of bed in the morning...otherwise existence is paralyzing, believe it or not).
I've seen how medication has changed my own life, my brother's life, and my mother's life. For those of us who are genuine sufferers, it can be life-changing, amazing, and quite frankly, astounding.