How Our Society Breeds Anxiety, Depression and Dysfunction

[JNelson6563]

8. Something to consider

there are doctors out there who are mighty quick to prescribe anti-depressants. So many people are taking these!

After waiting several years to see a doctor, due to no insurance, I finally went to see one about my brutal menopause symptoms. All physical. I get hot flashes so bad I turn bright red. I once had a stretch of nightsweats that saturated a couple of towels every night and it went for 5 months straight. The sleep deprivation was worse than having a newborn.

Well I went to a woman doctor thinking she might better understand it all but boy was I wrong! Not only was she very rude in that every second she spent with me was keeping her from something important, she wanted to prescribe anti-depressants for menopause. I'm not depressed. I am in a pretty good mood every day. I fit in naps if I'm short on sleep.

I have a couple of friends who had her as a doc. Sure enough they both got hooked on some really strong anti-depressants that are very expensive (and they no longer have insurance) and the withdrawals are brutal! What they go through reminds me very much of what an opiate addict I know has gone through.

I have to believe there is a vested interest by doctors to prescribe this crap. If nothing else they can demand office visits every few months to "monitor" the addicts they've created. I mean hey, rack up an extra $150 office visit for a five minute hey-howya-doin?-Here's-a-new-'script.-Buh-bye! job, right?

In related news, I often wonder about many of the drugs that are prescribed of late. Seems EVERYONE absolutely *needs* some prescription or other just to live, or at least they believe so. Hard to believe humankind made it so long before the existence of big pharma.

Julie