lets take it the way you said.. if a person has a terminal illness, their pain can be made bearable with some of these meds.. and its also true that their suffering is getting increased because of them too.. but it depends on the perspective how you see it.if you say quality of life is better over the number of years, that holds true. but, some people want to hang on here for long , may be because of fear of the death or 'whats comes after' so they might not see these meds as that harmful.. i think this is completely different from the case of a drug addict, the basic thing is drug addiction can be avoided, and a illness can't be .
some prefer quality of life over quantity. but some people just want to live long. thats their choice.. a thing which appears painful to a person might appear the same way to another person.
You say that as if people are given that choice, on a suicide forum of all places.
As far as ilness not being preventable:
"With non-communicable conditions accounting for nearly two-thirds of deaths worldwide, the emergence of chronic diseases as the predominant challenge to global health is undisputed. In the USA, chronic diseases are the main causes of poor health, disability, and death, and account for most of health-care expenditures. The chronic disease burden in the USA largely results from a short list of risk factors--including tobacco use, poor diet and physical inactivity (both strongly associated with obesity), excessive alcohol consumption, uncontrolled high blood pressure, and hyperlipidaemia--that can be effectively addressed for individuals and populations." -National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
QoL Health-wise, I said the exact opposite, it's been declining. We've traded famine and infections for chronic disease and malnutrition, you can argue whether having cancer is better than starving or polio, I think that's beside the point.
People are turn to addiction when there are no other alternatives available to them, and when those substances fail as primary coping mechanisms (the same class of drugs on the streets or in Dr. offices) they turn to violence or suicide.
You're essentially saying we can't measure QoL and it's all subjective/depends on the individual. I think that's bs and any public health statistic debunks that assertion.
Ah i have read your posts. I really hope over time it will resolve or improve for you.
I hope for a day we can legitimately test meds against our genetic make up to know for sure what it could do to us. I dont understand why it was great first time but years down the line my body wont tolerate it at all
One thing i get so angry with is when a medical professional refers to 'chemical imbalance' and how ADs help redress that. There is absolutely no scientific evidence at all to demonstrate 1. Chemical imbalance in the brain! 2. The way in which ADs change or redress this 'imbalance'. I have never found a single article or paper at all on it - e.g physiological evidence of chemicals involved and this 'imbalance' at a proven measurable physiological level! Yet people over the world are continually sold this chemical balance nonsense.
I understand there is a problem with seretonin or dopamine ( im no expert here) yet this imbalance shit doesn't really ring entirely true in all cases for me. I wonder how traumatic experiences alter cgemical balances or do they even? I blame systemic inflammation on my anxiety and depression. I have had trauma in my life ( who hasnt) but my worst depression came when my autoimmune diseases were in full swing. It was 100% not reactionary either.
Bit of a rant and always happy to stand corrected on the chemical imbalance thing. Always trying not to be too dogmatic
In a civilized society, institutions have to prove the safety and effectiveness of treatments or drugs before exposing it to the public. You're not wrong to be skeptical of the "Chemical Imbalance" hypothesis, and there's no evidence supporting it.
Scientist can't explain with certainty why even the most basic [intelligent] lifeforms make a decision in any given circumstance, which have about 100 or so neurons, humans have billions yet we're supposed to believe they know what they're doing as they bombard millions of people's (and children) brains with mystery pills...
Lobotomies were standard practice less than a 80 years ago...
