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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^as your agenda[/quote]
Why do soooo many people, so so many, men, women, children, need these medications. Are we all really this broken that we must rely on SSRIs and such in order to prevent us from all committing suicide? How pathetic is this? We must look at the bigger picture here as to why so many are dependent on these meds.[/quote]

Sure. And while you sort that out, let's critique doctors for saving lives, because -- apparently -- you don't care if they die while you protest the fact that they have access to medications to keep them alive.

How about you limit yourself to advocating for mental health specialist access without ALSO criticizing doctors for saving their patients' lives? [/quote]
Answer the question? Why do so many people need antidepressants? Could they be misdiagnosed or over medicated, yes of course. Especially when we have pcps and obgyns prescribing them.[/quote]

Why are they killing themselves?[/quote]
Yes, why are so many of us depressed enough to warrant taking an antidepressant? This is absurd, are we unable to learn healthy coping skills? We just give up and tell our physicians we want to die? Really?[/quote]

Yeah, I don't think you know the difference between "tell[ing] our physicians we want to di" and "committing suicide." Pro tip: the latter involves an actual dead body, by definition.[/quote]
So everyone on an antidepressant is potentially suicidal? Is that how obgyns determine when to prescribe antidepressants? Everyone I know is on an antidepressant, except me, and they were never suicidal.[/quote]

15% of people who come to a doctor asking for help with depression end up committing suicide within the next month if they are not treated. I can't figure out why you think that is okay, because the point you are trying to make with your anti medication agenda is more important than those people's lives.

You could advocate for better mental health access to services without advocating letting those people for, but you don't. Why?[/quote]

What is your source for this statistic of 15% die from suicide after asking for help? I think you have gotten something wrong from whatever research study this came from.

And to the other above poster, the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness has long been debunked. That was a theory used in the 1960s to try to explain in very rough terms that mental illness had a biological component and was not weakness or laziness or poor character. For some reason it has continued to circulate like an old wives tale until today despite being known to be inaccurate in the health and science communities for decades.[/quote]

Re: 15%
So this was not something you knew, I take it? Maybe you should make sure you understand why professionals disagree with you if you are going to hold forth on the topic.

I'll post when I'm off the phone.[/quote]

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