Medication for Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar ect. Unnecessary??

I’m not for medicine. I’m almost against it.
No, I am against it.
The way I look at it, the belief that the products of mind are capable of changing minds production is little different than belief in witchcraft.
Depression, anxiety, bipolar, I’d even go so far as to say most of what we call schizophrenia is due to certain life issues (many of them Western society won’t confront, doesn’t know how to, or doesn’t know exist) that you fail to resolve yourself. You drag them along from day to day hiding behind the treated symptoms.

But it doesn’t have to be looked at this way to see what I mean.
Familiar with neuroplasticity? It’s the quality of our brains that causes them, each and every night, to prune unused systems and reinforce used ones. In the most literal direct way we all know, as well as many ways we are out-of-touch with ourselves concerning, WE tell our brains what to do and no less.

Emotional neuropeptides are highly relevant. They’re different small protein chains our hypothalamus creates as response to emotional input from YOU, what you really are. These protein chains are received in the receptors of EVERY CELL IN OUR BODY as the way our cellular collectivity understands our emotions, and reacts to them. As our cells replace themselves, the new cells are created with MORE receptor sites for the neuropeptides we used frequently and FEWER of the ones we use seldom.
It is very significant that these receptor sites are the same that opiates stimulate. We “get addicted” to emotions in a sense that’s almost entirely literal.

If you’re told you have a “chemical imbalance” or any neuro-problem, don’t look at medical options, look at your life. Aim to find where the circumstances you create for yourself and remain within have over time taught your brain to do exactly what it’s doing. Change that. You will see the change reverse, and will have no dependency to drugs.

If you’re content with the chemical approach, realize that it has not tapped the issue, but that you’re ingesting substance that replaces what your body would otherwise make itself. This will far from stimulate your mind to re-take what feels to you a better stance, and in fact makes your situation worse since your brain will then continually under-compensate since you’re telling your brain to have a certain level of the right stuff then adding more of it than you told it to have as if you intend otherwise. The problem will deepen, and you will be dependent on Big Pharma, allowing them to use you as an ignorant financial battery just like so many million others.

@nightowl, Informative post, friend.

I’d just like to tack on JUST how little anyone can trust Big Pharma’s intentions for your health. The evidence is stacked SO high that they are just in it for the money, regardless of what happens to you, and the end result is your zombification.

THEY tell you what is wrong with you, THEY tell you that crap works, THEY tell you their crap will fix it. THEY make you buy it. THEY get you dependent on it.

@mercurial, he was tagging it onto my post, which clearly exercises self-responsibility. He simply added Pharma’s priorities.

@smokeup1, I almost posted saying weed probably ought not be pulled into this, but then I saw your username. Carry on.
… The time is currently 4:20 sharp here.

@mercurial, Well it is not clear to anyone what I have so officially it is schizophrenia, but I have aspects of half a dozen mental illnesses and this treatment is the only thing that stabilizes me enough to be coherent and healthy enough for independence.

@nightowl, No offense taken. I believe my main problem is I am highly perceptive and extremely empathic, this combination creates a situation of susceptablitiy to bi-polar type symptoms of manic depression and even euphoria. But it also means that I am often obsessive in a search for solutions to a myriad of issues, such that causes insomnia and frustration that leads to agression. Before my medication I was getting no where, just stuck in a state of constant thought and stress for things not even relevant, the weight of the world so to speak.
Now I see clearly the importance of patience and rejuvenation of my physical and mental being, something neglected to almost fatal injury in the state I was. Perhaps there are alternatives to my treatment that I may find some day, perhaps I am already in a psychological and philosophical mindset to deal with them, but if I miss a treatment for but a few days my extreme symptoms return.
It would take time to “re-acclimate” to a chemicalless state and it would be a very difficult task, not to mension a risky one. I would no doubt need some kinds of substitute or undeminishable motivator to compensate, if just temporarily.
@mercurial, I’m sure my friends would agree, they let their frustrations known to me all the time, :)

@nightowl, Everyone is nuts according to someone else, even the sanest person in the world knows someone who thinks he’s nuts. But if you think differently enough for most people to think you are nuts, even if you are not, you will have to consider compromising that uniqueness for acceptance. Not that you have to change but that you have to know when the right times are for you to be yourself and when it is best to blend. A crazy person who can do that is called a genius.

well, right now I am feeling really good to see someone saying “I have mental illness and the injections are good for me”. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like any kinds of medicines, I avoid them in any ways, but when it comes to that kind of diseases things are not so easy.
and I agree that the living and destiny are things that are making us, but it is not only the environment that build one person. The environment just adds its “yuk”.
and if there is someone who used to have mental disease, like paranoid schizophrenia for example, and now he is cured without using medicines I really would like to meet him, hug him and understand “how”!

@ameryyyy,

Personal choice. Fact is, medication works. It’s all well and good talking about meditation and all that jazz, which I know full well will work just as well for most people, but when you’re so depressed you can’t get out of bed you just WILL NOT meditate, just as you will not go out and exercise and will not do numerous other things that will probably make you feel a whole lot better, because you don’t have the energy or motivation to do them.