Posted by SLS on February 19, 2012, at 0:41:08
In reply to Re: Desperate » Solstice, posted by herpills on February 18, 2012, at 22:15:43
> I just feel like she is on too many meds,
How did you come to this conclusion? What criteria did you use?
You might be right, but I am interested to know why you feel that way in this particular case.
I don't know what the big deal is of having to take 6 different medications to treat one illness. What if someone needs to have 6 different processes manipulated simultaneously in order to bring balance to the system?
I think it is important to NOT discourage someone from treating a condition with multiple medications just because we don't like numbers. Of course, there are many instances in which drugs are prescribed that have no therapeutic activity in the individual. It becomes incumbent upon the doctor to identify these drugs at some point during treatment and remove them. However, I think that it is desirable to see symptom resolution before beginning to discontinue drug treatments.
Sometimes it is a matter of throwing a bunch of crap against the wall to see if any of it sticks. Someday soon, this crude way of treating mental illnesses will be unnecessary.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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