[Dion]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

Medication isn't a cure, it is a treatment but it isn't a cure. I really believe in a high percentage of cases people are prescribed pills because it is an easier option. It isn't as simple as taking a pill, or going to the gym or getting some more sleep (although all those things can help) it is about addressing the individual reasons for the mood disturbances and doing so takes long periods of time, is thankless and costs a bunch of money. Pills on the other hand and quick and fast and people view them as a cure, rather than as a treatment.

I clearly misunderstood your point on it being a treatment as opposed to a cure.

In the States I know the pharmacuetical companies like to advertise about thier anti depressents. It angers me that they are allowed to do that. IMO it gives the viewer the idea that popping someone pharmaceuticals pills is the magical cure.

That isn't what they are used for though, they are often used instead of therapy not as a supplement to therapeutic discourse.

That's how it was used with me. I saw both a psychiatrist, GP and psycologist all at the same time who were all working together on my treatment. Maybe I was a part of a very small minority. I even questioned why it was done this way.

That is a common story because mental health is a speciality that few people are trained in and frankly it is time intensive. The guy realistically should have written a referral to somewhere else.

Guys like that should better trained or banned from practicing as a doctor. My fear at the time was some other depressed person was going to walk out of his office feeling that no one cared and in the process may have comitted suicide.

I also had a guy in emerg at the Rockyview hospital accuse me of abusing the system and went so far as to threaten to have me locked up in mental ward. I said go ahead and follow through on your threat! All I was doing was searching for help after I left my GP. He returned awhile later and mumbled something that sounded like an apology and said I was free to go.

I have regrets about not reporting both to the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

I agree, I also think that you are stuck on what you call talk therapy because it has worked for you but there are other approaches such as groups, and CBT that are effective in dealing with mental health issues, however as I indicated before it is a societal issue and we need to look at the way our society is established if we want to see effective change, we live as individual units not as part of a larger cohesive framework.

Nothing personal, but I am aware of the other therapies that a patient can use. I agree there is no one fits all type treatment that works.