My son has a complicated set of prescriptions that restored him to euthymia after two years of hideous depression. I am so grateful for his cocktail.
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These are all generic drugs. No one is winning cruises for writing scripts on the $4 list.
this is anti-treatment propaganda.
I disagree.
This is question everything recommendation. Doctors are just people too. They can make mistakes, be out of date, or be corrupt.
But corrupt is very unlikely.
Do research. Read studies. Question. Challenge. And get the best result for yourself in the process.
Ahh yes, better living through modern chemistry.
And medicine as a skill/occupation, if you've been around it, isn't something you "do". But rather something you practice. I never one "did" medicine to or on any patient I dealt with in 20 years of being an EMT or Medic. I practiced medicine within my scope of practice, (there's that word again), just like any doctor or nurse.
And when you administer a medication/prescribe to a patient, that's called a "trial". Why is it called a "trial"? Be you have no idea what it's going to do to a patient. You simply go on past collective and professional experiences. And then you hand them a pill and wait to see what it does. It's going either cure them, do nothing, or it kills them. The 3 True Outcomes.
The first and last options means that you don't need to deal with the patient again. It's the middle option, "does nothing" that is a huge problem. That's when you pull out that bingo card in the cartoon and start trying to get your bingo some other way. And sometimes you even need to hit the blackout to get a bingo. And that's how you get the cartoon.
I will leave with this wise thought I got at an EMS symposium many years ago. The keynote speaker told us "That no matter how much we think we know about medicine and believe how advanced we've become in caring for people, it all still boils down to keeping the patient amused and letting nature take it's course".
Hey look! He can take her on a cruise too!
Nowhere near as real as doctors genuinely believing pseudoscientific bullshit and having it thrive way past the point of disproven efficiency.
Looking at you, homeopathy and psychoanalysis.
Wait, are we really putting psychoanalysis on the same bucket as homeopathy now?
Pretty much. It's built on unverifiable claims, even Freud's own case studies ended wrecks, and it!s used today to support shit "diagnoses" like "this kid is autistic because his mother loved him too much". And there's all the bullshit coming from the forced proximity with the analyst, like false memories. It is, in many ways, a pseudoscience.
As for what can be determined through actual science, there were huge cross-studies that could not find any benefit to psychoanalytic therapy for treatment of most psychological problems.
Psychoanalysis is not an equivalent term to psychology. It's only a branch of it, one that shits on experimentation and proof because all the proof you need are in the ravings of an old weirdo from a century ago.
They cover Freud in psychiatry like you cover Satie in music, Picasso in art and Brecht in writing classes. That doesn't mean that the latest TV shows like Heated Rivalry are cubist versions of Mother Courage set to Gymnopedes. And how much Freud have you actually read and studied at a postgraduate level? Why do you mentioned Freud and not Lacan?
Politely, I think your opinion is under-informed.
They also teach obsolete models of the atom in science so students understand where we're coming from, but they don't still use them.
Depression is the logical outcome of the system we live under.
Haha medicine bad anti vax good. You are not like the other people, you are very smart!
i think you're reading more into this than actually exists in it
Unfortunately that's just how psychiatry is. You can get a metabolic test done that tells what meds your liver metabolizes better, but ultimately it's throwing darts and hoping something sticks.
Hot tip, if any of your family members have similar mental heath conditions ask them what meds they're on. Worked out very well for my partner after trying several drugs she asked what her dad was on and tried that. It worked great
Makes sense genetically
You can just have this tested at most psychiatrists. Genesight is one version, there are a few. If your insurance covers it you basically just have to spit in a cup. If you donβt the cost is capped at $330 for genesight which is a lot. Their argument is that in that case it can still be worthwhile to avoid paying for meds that arenβt a good fit. That said this is a bit absurd as most first line psych meds are dirt cheap. Like fluoxetine is like $25 and you can often get it down to 0 with those prescription card things. If they start you on pristiq or fetzima then itβs way more, hundreds per month, but if your psychiatrist is starting you with those theyβve been corrupted by a pharmaceutical rep
$330 for a genetic sequencing is fucking robbery. The cost to sequence is under $100, a major breakthrough in genetic testing dropped the cost to $80 per sequence. An extremely detailed research-grade sequencing is around $200. The U of Minnesota charges $250 for everything from sequencing to analysis for external screenings
None of these tests have good privacy practices
Amazing how the psychiatrist never mentioned this when none of the drugs were helping
LOL. I found out my aunt was on the same med after being on it for ten years.
It is one of those in the comic.
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Sorry can't hear you over the sound of my Paxil
I know this is a joke but donβt combine any of these meds. You might add Wellbutrin to lexapro or Zoloft, but you would never take them together, and your body metabolizes Effexor into the medication in pristiq so they wouldnβt combine those either.
Medications are only there to enrich your doctor! The medical industry only exists to extract profit! You don't need drugs - it's natural to be depressed, just look at how bad the world is! ADHD is a superpower! Autism is caused by vaccines!
- Things said by idiots.
(edit: Or just the misguided. Disillusion with the medical industry and all its myriad problems is understandable, but that doesn't make it a conspiracy nor does it mean the people who dedicate their lives to it are all profit-driven goblins that don't care about you. Overprescription is a hugely complex and heavily propagandized topic, but tarring all mental health professionals with this brush and discouraging people from getting what little professional help is available is indefensible)
I've never been prescribed more than one new (long-term) medication at the same time. I'm currently waiting impatiently to get on methylphenidate again as soon as my doctor is convinced the venlafaxine isn't giving me side effects. Where do you find these doctors that just throw drugs at you?
It's no wonder you've never heard of them, they're not very popular doctors - just imagine how prickly it must be to get a physical from someone that's completely made of straw.
:/ Iβve had multiple different psychiatrists treat my depression like this. Once they run you through the normal gamut of antidepressants (ex: Zoloft, Paxil, etc.) and donβt find any success they start adding the modulating drugs on top (ex: Wellbutrin, Abilify, Buspar, etc.)
Is this comic an exaggeration? Yes. Is it frustrating to be a patient and feel like your doctor is just using the shotgun method? Also yes.
Rearrange that and I would've gotten 2 bingos if we're counting all the meds I've been prescribed in my life
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