Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

[COSGringo]

Hi All,
Started a thread on Straightdope.com. A great forum that covers every topic you could think of.
Usually intellectual observations but some funny absurd matters, too.

Anyways- here's the thread if you want to weigh in as a guest or just read-

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds? - Straight Dope Message Board

A lot of good reads there just in general.

Thx

[RedThread12]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

I just glimpsed, Cos. I wish I could say that I'm intrigued by the question, but that particular one passed through this station a long, long time ago.

I don't know how old you are, but I am old enough. Really. I am old enough and fulfilled enough and satisfied enough that if it all ends NOW, I'll be laughing my arse off. I've also worked hard - with diligence - to make sure I have no regrets . . . cue 1st track of Leonard Cohen's latest CD, "Old Ideas." So getting enmeshed in whether or not today's vibrant moment detracts from some future moment is, to me, for you and others to discern. Thanks for taking that on!! My plate is over-full, already.

[COSGringo]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

Don't know but I will be pissed if it all ends tomorrow. I want some of those retirement years that so many freeloaders are enjoying in their 30's lately around here!

[Saroo]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

It would all end tomorrow if...

I have been diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder (type 1) for many years and have kept up on research at all levels - I don't just happily pop pills when I'm told to) and I can tell you the medications I'm on plus the therapy I have received have literally saved my life. These meds are carefully controlled in australia and in my experience doctors - be they specialists or gps - don't hand them out like lollies as a rule. It's great that people keep researching these meds and for sure ask questions - but for people with crippling suicidal depression or rampant mania ( think a mad night out on the plonk that goes for a month with no booze required - a no brainier - they work - they really do (it can be trial and error to get things right for each individual but it beats being dead or staying in bed for two weeks). My proper diagnosis after at least 10 years with the wrong one has given me my life back - its not the life I had before but it beats the alternative. Now I just need to get the really bad drug back under control - the alcohol - it will kill me and ruin my life quicker thn all my psyc meds put together! Sorry bit of a rant - that will do :-)

[Supercrew]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

Wow, I could see this thread blowup on a short fuse rather quickly!:0

Speaking for myself, I would never take them, and I was told by a few people in the med field to stay away from them, because it is a trial and error process. Hell I screwed myself for 27 years drinking, I won't let anything else ever mess with my brain chemistry. I truly believe that no one is broken and needs to be fixed. We have the resources we need internally to make any change and acheive anything we desire. Behavioral flexibility for me is the key to beat mental issues.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

And while you're at it, Cos, why don't you include a link to the places where you buy your meds???

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

But instead I will delete and pray to all that matters, (Please, oh please) that this thread dies a quick death or that I can completely ignore it. (PLEASE!)

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

'cause speaking truth to knuckleheaded drunks who are barely out of their first taste of sobriety (and/or still using against their will) is NOT part of the mission.

[RedThread12]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

As I said, I'm not even entering the "to med or not to med" conversation. (ooops . . . my bias is revealed. After all, I'm posting in the Meds Section)

I'm back for a flash JUST to say :welcome: to Saroo!! Glad you're here, glad you're posting. I am thrilled that you've already found your way out of some BIG things. This board is about helping ourselves and each other to find A way out of that demonic clutch of alcohol.

This part of the forum is for everyone, of course, but particularly for those of us who have chosen to utilize pharmaceutical medications as an aid to end alcoholism. I feel quite fortunate. I'm nutty as a fruit-cake, even in my own opinion :H, but I have no other psychological diagnoses or cross-addictions. But I understand, in my own way, from watching family members and friends battle horrific mental/emotional conditions, how much courage and strength it must have taken for you to get this far. Congratulations! And keep on!!!

Like SScrew says, there are lots of ways out from under the lash of alcohol. I've been on this board for almost 4 years, and I've seen many. many people find freedom and move on, completely. So, please, make yourself at home. Read, read, read, in every topic and thread that intrigues you. You can do this, too, man. I just KNOW you can.

[RedThread12]

Do we understand brain chem enuff to hand out AD's and other meds?- debate alt forum

I think we're cross-posting together, Ne! :H:H


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