Overmedication - Xanax bottles not included

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Sword Fighter Super said:
Because medication is like the credit card of healthcare. It's the quick and easy way to get what you want NOW, but has a shit ton of side effects/consequences.

Have high blood pressure because you're a fat fuck? Instead of losing weight which would lower it (because we know you won't) take this pill instead.

Got ADHD and can't pay attention in class? Instead of disciplining your kid and having them taught therapeutic methods to be able to deal with it, throw a pill in their mouths to make them easier to deal with.
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This is exactly it.
There's a lot of people out there who have shitty jobs and lots of stress and kids and bills piling up all the time, and of course they're depressed. Their life is depressing. They don't have time to do talk therapy, and even if they did, it wouldn't fix their main problem of having a shitty life. Psychiatrists aren't social workers and they can't fix society. Here's some SSRIs.

And with some conditions, therapy is really hard, like borderline personality disorder. For one thing, psychiatrists and therapists hate them, not entirely unjustifiably, so finding someone who will do DBT is difficult. But also your whole personality being disordered is inherently more difficult to fix than, say, anxiety. It's you--your whole self is wrong. Here's some SSRIs or Seroquel, let's hope it keeps you from winding up in ER again, borderline.

And a huge component of developing borderline personality disorder is childhood trauma, so we're only going to see more of it as society becomes more and more fucked up. Single mothers who let their loser boyfriends molest their daughters...kids growing up in hollowed out factory towns seeing their older siblings and cousins overdose on heroin...the aforementioned depressed worker turning to alcohol and taking their depression anger out on their kids...and of course, more people who would've been institutionalized in the 50s having kids. Not good.
 
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Our government has actively worked to mentally retаrd our population, if you are speaking about the United States. It is obvious why our population is profoundly addicted to drugs. More than 50% of our population is disgustingly fat, and it is a horrible experience to interact with fat people. They are disgusting to look at, and they are very obviously mentally slower than someone of average weight that is not addicted to drugs. Furthermore, I would say upwards of 80% of our population owns smartphones, and smartphones dehumanize the natural experience of social interaction with real human beings. I can tell immediately if I am speaking to someone that uses a smartphone. They lack any depth; it is like speaking to a magic eight ball. Imagine being a child growing up in this country, and nearly everyone is a mentally retаrded fatass that ignores you for an electronic rectangle that turns you into a nigger with zero personality.

The question is not, "What has caused our overmedicated society?" The question is more, "Why are you not abusing drugs to mentally cope with our civilizational collapse?" And keep in mind, there are far more problems with our society than fat niggers and drug addicts. I could rant about the problems ad infinitum, but it is pointless. The moment we get a female president, I am out of here—guns be damned.
 
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Medicated said:
In my experience, actual depressed people don't tend to update their facebook/twitter/instagram status with memes on how depressed they are every 30 minutes.
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Actual depression isn't about "feeling sad" or "depressessssed". Its like a cloud that hangs over you no matter how good things are. Actual sufferers of depression tend to lead normal and productive lives until they decide to end it. Many never get treatment because their symptoms don't match what has been fetishized by social media dwellers.
 
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And a huge component of developing borderline personality disorder is childhood trauma, so we're only going to see more of it as society becomes more and more fucked up. Single mothers who let their loser boyfriends molest their daughters...kids growing up in hollowed out factory towns seeing their older siblings and cousins overdose on heroin...the aforementioned depressed worker turning to alcohol and taking their depression anger out on their kids...and of course, more people who would've been institutionalized in the 50s having kids. Not good.
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Life wasn't some magical fantasy land in the old days. Things were often worse, they were just ignored, and people talked less of it. Crime was higher, rape was higher, child abuse was higher. If you had a serious problem, and the brain couldn't make the adaption, you killed yourself, end of story. There was no need for mental health professionals, because eventually they'd take care of the problem themselves. The people left over were "quirky" "eccentric" etc

Mental health is now an industry, people who would've killed themselves before now are treated with crude medications that influence the complex brain chemistry, and people stumble along trying to do the best they can. That's why there are these people, because the people who would've killed themselves in the past, don't.

Of course, growing up with broken families and being raised by social media because of working parents is an issue nowadays. But is it more numerous than the family issues that happened when everyone was home?
 
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The spread of information has a lot to do with the over medication of today. People know too much and it bothers them. Too much information can be as taxing as not enough.
 
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I think a lot of people take medication when they don’t need to. The problems I’ve been offered medication for (the issue is always anxiety in some form) were solved by a lifestyle change, or a nutritional deficiency. For some reason, alternatives to pills are never the first suggestion I get.

I feel like I’m better off for refusing medication because it forces me to learn how to solve the problem.
 
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Datiko said:
Actual depression isn't about "feeling sad" or "depressessssed". Its like a cloud that hangs over you no matter how good things are. Actual sufferers of depression tend to lead normal and productive lives until they decide to end it. Many never get treatment because their symptoms don't match what has been fetishized by social media dwellers.
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Without getting too personal,this is what happened to me. It was either go to a facility or crash my car into a concrete median.
 
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Our government has actively worked to mentally retаrd our population, if you are speaking about the United States. It is obvious why our population is profoundly addicted to drugs. More than 50% of our population is disgustingly fat, and it is a horrible experience to interact with fat people. They are disgusting to look at, and they are very obviously mentally slower than someone of average weight that is not addicted to drugs. Furthermore, I would say upwards of 80% of our population owns smartphones, and smartphones dehumanize the natural experience of social interaction with real human beings. I can tell immediately if I am speaking to someone that uses a smartphone. They lack any depth; it is like speaking to a magic eight ball. Imagine being a child growing up in this country, and nearly everyone is a mentally retаrded fatass that ignores you for an electronic rectangle that turns you into a nigger with zero personality.

The question is not, "What has caused our overmedicated society?" The question is more, "Why are you not abusing drugs to mentally cope with our civilizational collapse?" And keep in mind, there are far more problems with our society than fat niggers and drug addicts. I could rant about the problems ad infinitum, but it is pointless. The moment we get a female president, I am out of here—guns be damned.
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They said the same thing about cell phones, phones, and newspapers.
 
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I agree with your first two objections, but I am not convinced that newspapers ever met the same level of criticism. Nor should they, unless they promulgate satanic rubbish.
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I can't find the precise quote at the moment, but the creation of the printing press was decried as "desecrating the written word" and "promoting idleness to the common man by encouraging him to waste his time reading instead of laboring honestly".
 
I work in an industry related to pharmaceuticals, and there is a lot of factors contributing to over prescribing.

One of that is the perception that pharmacological treatment is easier to administer than non-pharmacological treatement. Why would you give your patients therapy if it can be fixed with a few pills?

Another is barriers preventing pharmacists (who are specially educated on drug therapy) from effectively discussing with prescribers on if therapy is unnecessary. Pharmacists cannot deprescribe, nor are providers willing to accept that they may have given an unnecessary drug sometime, and a lot of the time the prescribers are hard to reach.

Lastly, there is a such thing as the 'prescribing cascade.' What that means is you take one drug, have an adverse reaction, and get prescribed another drug to control that adverse reaction, then the drug you were prescribed to control the ADR has it's own side effects--> more drugs to control those side effects, etc etc.

You want to prescribe the fewest amount of drugs because more drugs = more chances of ADRs, and more chances of forgetting one and not being fully compliant with the regimen as a result, and thus suboptimal therapy.
 
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