hello
i know this thread is old but ive been on medication before and now am considering it again because ive gotten to a point where the anxiety is unbearable. i do hear voices and its horrible but ive learned to cope with it over the years and due to the fact that antipsychotic drugs are in a class of their own( they have horrible side effects) i think ill pass on them. you really have to do a cost to benefit analysis. for some people the antipsychotic are a real life saver for some it is overkill (like me) and others just need them once in their life for a couple of months if they have acute psychosis(lucky ones).
i really wonder about the metaphysical aspect of it. maybe there is some demon sucking the energy out of us but i really do wonder why positive beings would allow that. allegedly the higher self never allows something to happen that could overwhelm someone....and yet if we look at ourselves and the world.....
really makes you think about the whole spirituality thing. in my opinion for people like us we should just live life the best we can and not worry about spiritual things at all. it just makes it worse for me personally and ive observed that in others as well.
i forgot to mention. id strongly advise against meditation. yes it does strengthen the will and the focus but it also brings up past trauma. a lot of people are incapable of dealing with that. this is the reason why in some psyschiatric hospital meditation is actually forbidden. now a conspiracy theorist might say this is all by design "they wanna keep us down" but the current medical consensus is that meditation has a very strong effect on the psyche and the brain structure. it is well researched and for people who already have psychological problems it worsens their issues. i dont wanna go into all the detail and some foolish people might even go as far as to call that the "dark knight of the soul". just look up the "dark side of meditation". there are hundreds of studies involving thousands of people....
my advice is for anyone not psychologically healthy to abstain from meditation. there is a reason why shaolin monks are very few in numbers. just like not everyone is capable of enduring the extreme physical challenges it is the same with meditation.
consider it like weightlifting. you dont do deadlifting with a broken back do you? and certainly deadlifting wont fix your broken back even if you try lifting just 1kg you'll just make it worse.
i know this thread is old but ive been on medication before and now am considering it again because ive gotten to a point where the anxiety is unbearable. i do hear voices and its horrible but ive learned to cope with it over the years and due to the fact that antipsychotic drugs are in a class of their own( they have horrible side effects) i think ill pass on them. you really have to do a cost to benefit analysis. for some people the antipsychotic are a real life saver for some it is overkill (like me) and others just need them once in their life for a couple of months if they have acute psychosis(lucky ones).
i really wonder about the metaphysical aspect of it. maybe there is some demon sucking the energy out of us but i really do wonder why positive beings would allow that. allegedly the higher self never allows something to happen that could overwhelm someone....and yet if we look at ourselves and the world.....
really makes you think about the whole spirituality thing. in my opinion for people like us we should just live life the best we can and not worry about spiritual things at all. it just makes it worse for me personally and ive observed that in others as well.
i forgot to mention. id strongly advise against meditation. yes it does strengthen the will and the focus but it also brings up past trauma. a lot of people are incapable of dealing with that. this is the reason why in some psyschiatric hospital meditation is actually forbidden. now a conspiracy theorist might say this is all by design "they wanna keep us down" but the current medical consensus is that meditation has a very strong effect on the psyche and the brain structure. it is well researched and for people who already have psychological problems it worsens their issues. i dont wanna go into all the detail and some foolish people might even go as far as to call that the "dark knight of the soul". just look up the "dark side of meditation". there are hundreds of studies involving thousands of people....
my advice is for anyone not psychologically healthy to abstain from meditation. there is a reason why shaolin monks are very few in numbers. just like not everyone is capable of enduring the extreme physical challenges it is the same with meditation.
consider it like weightlifting. you dont do deadlifting with a broken back do you? and certainly deadlifting wont fix your broken back even if you try lifting just 1kg you'll just make it worse.
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