Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist?

[DebJ]

134. i will agree that some psychiatrists are very quick to

prescribe stuff. i had a bad reaction to the asthma/allergy med Advair but
didn't realize at first that the Advair was the source. i was having extreme
anxiety and panic attacks, and started speaking very rapidly. My regular doc
referred me to a psych. By the time that appointment came up in a few weeks,
I had remembered that my doc had just doubled my Advair doseage just before
these symptoms started. i went online and saw first that Advair has a corticosteroid,
and second, that LOTS of other Advair users were complaining of this type of response
to Advair. The psych and my regular doc flat out denied that Advair could cause this...
and I really, really like my regular doctor and trust her greatly. The psych wrote a prescription
for something; don't remember what, I trashed it. I had stopped taking the Advair by
the time my appointment came up with him, and even though it wasn't completely out
of my system after just one week, I still saw a noticeable difference. Within two weeks,
my symptoms were almost gone, and now, four years later, they have never returned.