Psychiatric Drugs Causing Compulsive Violence

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To say depressed people do not follow guidelines is making an assumption. You assign them a role that they are helpless and incapable of taking care of themselves. Some will call that making a generalization and making short-cuts in thinking thru the issue here.

Their ability to follow their treatment protocol depends on severity of the illness, complexity of their mental & physical health conditions, types of symtoms that they are experiencing, types of services they are hooked up to, various social context (like family and social support or mental illnesses in the family that complicates treatment), and many other contexts.

These things are highly ideographic - you have to understand difficulties or problems on a case-by-case situation. Although, people with depression do lack motivation, thus have difficulties in daily functions. So depressed people do have more challenges in adhering to treatment protocols.

One way to provide assistance to those who are taking medications (or thinking about it), is to maybe help them make decisions about their treatment by presenting balanced information (e.g., pros and cons). You potentially block a person from an optimal treatment method when you go out and become so anti about medications.

Sure it's toxic and I personally do not think medication treatment is helpful... but there are people who use it temporarily as a way to relieve some symptoms so they could gather strength to engage in other forms of healing. There are those whos suicidal and homicidal ideations get exacerbated by the adverse effects of the meds.

It's more constructive if this forum is used a way to educate and to relay alternatives (which you do, Monica) than to politicize this issue. The reject-something-completely strategy won't work... it could create unnecessary fear/anxiety in people.