Tragically in our society of miss guided rules and regulations, the Medical profession has gone down the path of what's my "Bottom Line" to make a profit, not what's my "Hippocratic Oath" to cure my patient.
How many times have you gone to the doctor and walked out with a prescription in your hand? 100%. Likely. Does this person really know you? Does he really know your health? Are you willing to take a medication, with side effects that any sane man should fear, prescribed by him because he went to Medical school? Think twice about the answers to these questions because your short term and long term health and even life are dependent upon the answers.
Even more important is the miss guided prescription use for what is termed as "chemically …show more content…
Only pharmaceutical companies put stock (both literally and financially) in the theory that prescriptions can help and it is likely based more on profit than science. So why are their "theories" not questioned?
The main reason is that there are NO diagnostic tests to identify an imbalance of brain chemicals like serotonin or dopamine. As a result people are often labeled as being "imbalanced" based primarily on the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety or hyperactivity. A classic circular argument like labeling a woman with fatigue as anemic without performing a blood test to check iron levels.
The reality is that what …show more content…
However, it's important to realize that medications such as Paxil, Zoloft and Wellbutrin are not meant to cure anything, only to alleviate symptoms. This is why of all the people on these medications, Doctors never hear "I took Paxil for 1 week and it cured my depression so my doctor took me off of it" or "My son was on Focalin for 1 month, had his ADHD cured and now takes no medication at all". The common scenario is that people go on these medicines, experience improvement in symptoms and stay on them for years and even decades to come. This is especially dangerous because of the plethora of side effects associated with their use such as behavioral changes, decreased immune system function, cardiac problems and
How many times have you gone to the doctor and walked out with a prescription in your hand? 100%. Likely. Does this person really know you? Does he really know your health? Are you willing to take a medication, with side effects that any sane man should fear, prescribed by him because he went to Medical school? Think twice about the answers to these questions because your short term and long term health and even life are dependent upon the answers.
Even more important is the miss guided prescription use for what is termed as "chemically …show more content…
Only pharmaceutical companies put stock (both literally and financially) in the theory that prescriptions can help and it is likely based more on profit than science. So why are their "theories" not questioned?
The main reason is that there are NO diagnostic tests to identify an imbalance of brain chemicals like serotonin or dopamine. As a result people are often labeled as being "imbalanced" based primarily on the presence of symptoms of depression, anxiety or hyperactivity. A classic circular argument like labeling a woman with fatigue as anemic without performing a blood test to check iron levels.
The reality is that what …show more content…
However, it's important to realize that medications such as Paxil, Zoloft and Wellbutrin are not meant to cure anything, only to alleviate symptoms. This is why of all the people on these medications, Doctors never hear "I took Paxil for 1 week and it cured my depression so my doctor took me off of it" or "My son was on Focalin for 1 month, had his ADHD cured and now takes no medication at all". The common scenario is that people go on these medicines, experience improvement in symptoms and stay on them for years and even decades to come. This is especially dangerous because of the plethora of side effects associated with their use such as behavioral changes, decreased immune system function, cardiac problems and