01-27-2012, 06:35 AM
I've studied this topic for a while and am rather split between medication via pills through Chemistry and the artificial (Computers, laboratories, researchers, and so on) and medicating via herbs and the natural path of evolution.
My history of childhood abuse and sexual abuse leads me to a situation where I am improving and being "less anxious" as time goes by but i anticipate that it will still take several years to a decade until I'm entirely stable.
So until such a point where stability is acheived I feel I benefit from medication, the increased creativity, joy and antipication of life and both my business, intelligence and heart have, in my view, improved.
So, it is, I feel, not a choice between medication and no medication as for now, the state of no medication would be significantly less than what I Wish to be. But the question is how to medicate.
From my experiences and studies i say i prefer Mary over Pill.
In my view SSRI and SNRI medications carry with them a significantly greater risks of side effects and addiction than a herb that grows like a weed.
Implication of long term use are... troubling... but the implications of no use and the depression that it carries with it are even more troubling.
My history of childhood abuse and sexual abuse leads me to a situation where I am improving and being "less anxious" as time goes by but i anticipate that it will still take several years to a decade until I'm entirely stable.
So until such a point where stability is acheived I feel I benefit from medication, the increased creativity, joy and antipication of life and both my business, intelligence and heart have, in my view, improved.
So, it is, I feel, not a choice between medication and no medication as for now, the state of no medication would be significantly less than what I Wish to be. But the question is how to medicate.
From my experiences and studies i say i prefer Mary over Pill.
In my view SSRI and SNRI medications carry with them a significantly greater risks of side effects and addiction than a herb that grows like a weed.
Implication of long term use are... troubling... but the implications of no use and the depression that it carries with it are even more troubling.