Re:Most people on antidepressants don’t need them
by alphabettsy on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:43AM
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> What we are really saying is that it’s okay to eat that cholesterol-raising food, just take this to make that number lower.
Realistically this is what most people want. I spent years watching people choose to go on medications rather than make simple lifestyle choices. Habits are powerful.
It’s not possible to treat the cause when a patient wants the easiest solution. So yea, we have a bunch of medication‘s that treat symptoms. Causes are sometimes impossible to know, the body is complex enough that we don’t even understand how some medications work at all.
Realistically this is what most people want. I spent years watching people choose to go on medications rather than make simple lifestyle choices. Habits are powerful.
It’s not possible to treat the cause when a patient wants the easiest solution. So yea, we have a bunch of medication‘s that treat symptoms. Causes are sometimes impossible to know, the body is complex enough that we don’t even understand how some medications work at all.