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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
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What finally worked was changing the actual conditions of my life. I don't find this hard to believe as your body naturally gets serotonin and endorphin highs from exciting activities such as roller coasters and doing sports. If your life conditions are mired in misery, rejection, darkness, isolation, and general bad outcomes, you are definitely going to have a distinct deficit of neurotransmitters. In these cases, the medications may simply be artificially trying to top you up but the underlying conditions of your life are still the root cause and not a chemical imbalance for some people.
I do realize that the above sounds like a Tom Cruise thing to say but this is my personal experience.
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See I think this is a good example of a thing we need to work on... what you did was awesome and not crazy at all. Just because scientology is kooky does not immediately mean we stop asking questions about drugs.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Has anyone stated that these are "fix-alls" though? Most doctors will tell you that they're just one piece to the puzzle, and that you still have to actually put in a tonne of work (e.g. exercise, therapy, eating well) to get consistent results.
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I would argue while many doctors are aware and will give their patients that direction,
1. There's still many that don't and do in fact treat drugs as a fix-all
2. They only have time to write prescriptions, not ask you about your life history
3. Even if the message is delivered, many patients don't care to hear it