Re: Re: Industry's way to get you hooked in order to take your money

May 16, 2005

Hi, I am new here and I wanted to comment on this posting. I don't agree

with your statement that 15-20 years ago, when we didn't have these meds,

people did just fine.

I'm a 57 year old woman who was raised by parents who grew up in the

depression and went to war. Two big heavy weights. Unfortunately, because

of the PTSD that the service men got in combat, the wives and children who

had to put up with their angry drunken and abusive tirades. This in turn

created dysfunctional, abusive homes. If those meds had been available then

my generation wouldn't all be in recovery healing from the depression and

dysfunction and the abuse that we all had to contend with while growing up

in those homes. Thank God for those meds now. I am on Celexa and a whole

assortment of psychotropic drugs to quell my flashbacks, nightmares, and

body memories. I would be in an institution now if it weren't for the meds.

But the generations before us WERE NOT O.K. I'm living proof of such. I was

terribly abused as a child because I had a rare and severe skin disease

that couldn't be treated or cured. My parents drank alcoholicly and abused

me instead of taking me to a doctor and finding help. So, don't tell me

that the previous generations past did well without AD's because they DIDN'T

!! Many of us carry the legacy of the abuse and suffer from flashbacks on

a daily basis...the legacy left over from the generation of parents who " did

just fine " without meds.

Sue C

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your money

barbara,

you must have not read all of my post. Please go back and read the

post and try answering some of the questions that I listed, besides

trying to bash me.

Obvioulsy my post did not apply to you if the drugs happend to truely

help you. My post was for all those kids and adults whom are being

put on these drugs each day just to cope with their daily issues and

are being told by their doctors after only a 30 minute office visit

that they need these drugs, when in reality they may not, and may only

have a case of temporary depression due to issues in their life that

we all deal with. Keep in mind that 15-30 years ago, we didnt have

them and the general public (not those whom truelly need them did fine

without them). TOday, it seems like these are the way of life. Many

high school kids are taking them, so on and so on.

Like I said before....I am sure these drugs have helped many many

people like yourself. I was only refering to the other greater half.

I knew my post was gona piss some people off and that was not my

intention. I just wanted to make a point that there are lots of

people taking these pills that really don't need to.

May 16, 2005

How do you know people don't need to take these meds? do you know what their

past was like ?, do you know whether they may have been sexually abused or

molested as a child ? What may seem like an everyday common stressor to you

might be a serious issue for those who take meds. do you know whether or

not they might have been severely emotionally abused as a kid and suffer

flashbacks ? In today's complex society with a war going on and general

unrest in this country, this generation faces a whole different set of

stressors than we did when we were younger. I think these are difficult

times for us financially, politically, and socially. People today are

facing some difficult challenges and if a white pill is what it takes to

cope with life so that they can get thru it in a reasonably functional way,

then I say go for it. It's just too bad this stuff wasn't available years

ago. Also, I'm getting tired of being around chronically depressed and

angry people who don't know they are depressed and don't believe in meds or

therapy. They go thru their daily lives raising havoc with those near and

dear to them because they won't go for help.

Sue C.

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