More and more I’m seeing patients who have been on medication for 15, 20, 40 years. I ask them, ”Is it helping?” And inevitably they answer, ”If I felt better would I be here?”
One woman was on 27 different medications. A young man had originally only been mildly depressed, but was ”revealed” as bipolar after he was put on Prozac. Another woman was arrested after she was given Zoloft and had an immediate and dramatic manic episode. None of them have been given any relief with the ”standard of care.”
I have been educating people about alternatives to pharmaceutical treatments for many years, but lately the need for a change has been made increasingly and painfully vivid. Read more
