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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 3051853" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>Pills can be part of the answer.</p><p></p><p>Some of us, both gun owners AND medical professionals, have been screaming it for years - we need a better mental health system!</p><p></p><p>Yes, too many people (medical providers, that is) just want to throw a script at someone - "Here, take this Zoloft, or Celexa, or Wellbutrin, or XXXX blah blah blah." Even worse is the f***ing XANAX. OMG if I see one more 21 y/o who is on CHRONIC F***ING XANAX.... ARGH!</p><p></p><p>Yes, meds CAN and DO have a place for some people. But, as I have tried to tell people for years (both patients AND other providers), mental health issues MUST be approached on a multi-disciplinary level. They MUST.</p><p></p><p>If you want it treated properly and effectively, you need therapy. Not just counseling, true, THERAPY. Like cognitive-behavioral therapy or deep psychoanalysis that helps you get to the ROOT of why you have depression/anxiety/agoraphobia/panic disorder/etc., as well as learning how to COPE with it, how to ADJUST your mindset and behaviors and you have to CONTINUE this therapy for years, maybe even for life! Too many people (yes, providers, too) think they can just take a pill once a day, go see a counselor once a month or so and talk about their feelings for an hour (which is usually more like 35-45 minutes of actual discourse) and they should be good.</p><p></p><p>We have a terrible lack of true mental health care in this country, and we have a terrible lack of commitment to making it more effective, both from the provider AND from the patient standpoint. The commitment to true therapy is just. not. there. Not at all.</p><p></p><p>Yes, pills can help, but they <strong>aren't </strong>going to "fix your problem". Just like blood pressure pills, diabetes pills, cholesterol pills, etc. They may help mitigate the end result, but the problem is the process that got you to that point. Overeating, laziness, genetics, smoking, overworking, etc. Lifestyle changes make at least as much difference in these problems as medications, and oftentimes much, much more difference.</p><p></p><p>But going to your doc and saying, "Give me a pill," is easier vs. putting in long hours of hard work, effort, dedication, education, lifestyle modification and sweat are just NOT the (New) American Way, unfortunately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 3051853, member: 9374"] Pills can be part of the answer. Some of us, both gun owners AND medical professionals, have been screaming it for years - we need a better mental health system! Yes, too many people (medical providers, that is) just want to throw a script at someone - "Here, take this Zoloft, or Celexa, or Wellbutrin, or XXXX blah blah blah." Even worse is the f***ing XANAX. OMG if I see one more 21 y/o who is on CHRONIC F***ING XANAX.... ARGH! Yes, meds CAN and DO have a place for some people. But, as I have tried to tell people for years (both patients AND other providers), mental health issues MUST be approached on a multi-disciplinary level. They MUST. If you want it treated properly and effectively, you need therapy. Not just counseling, true, THERAPY. Like cognitive-behavioral therapy or deep psychoanalysis that helps you get to the ROOT of why you have depression/anxiety/agoraphobia/panic disorder/etc., as well as learning how to COPE with it, how to ADJUST your mindset and behaviors and you have to CONTINUE this therapy for years, maybe even for life! Too many people (yes, providers, too) think they can just take a pill once a day, go see a counselor once a month or so and talk about their feelings for an hour (which is usually more like 35-45 minutes of actual discourse) and they should be good. We have a terrible lack of true mental health care in this country, and we have a terrible lack of commitment to making it more effective, both from the provider AND from the patient standpoint. The commitment to true therapy is just. not. there. Not at all. Yes, pills can help, but they [B]aren't [/B]going to "fix your problem". Just like blood pressure pills, diabetes pills, cholesterol pills, etc. They may help mitigate the end result, but the problem is the process that got you to that point. Overeating, laziness, genetics, smoking, overworking, etc. Lifestyle changes make at least as much difference in these problems as medications, and oftentimes much, much more difference. But going to your doc and saying, "Give me a pill," is easier vs. putting in long hours of hard work, effort, dedication, education, lifestyle modification and sweat are just NOT the (New) American Way, unfortunately. [/QUOTE]
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