Posted by JahL on March 30, 2001, at 17:51:13
In reply to Meds are only a TOOL » JahL, posted by Todd on March 30, 2001, at 0:22:30
> > > >The same point I was making on another thread. >Psychotherapists like to persuade patients that >meds are just a 'band-aid' when in fact it's >psychotherapy that's the stop gap measure, >inadequately filling in (& confusing the >picture) for meds that are yet to be developed.
> > Psychotherapy a stop-gap measure? Inadequately filling in for meds that are yet to be developed?
Absolutely. In serious psychobiological illnesses, such as my own, therapy is an irrelevance, no a *hindrance*.
> > In my honest opinion, and very respectfully submitted, Jah, you've obviously been seeing the wrong psychotherapists.
All psychotherapists are intrinsically 'wrong' since their thinking is fundamentally flawed. Psychiatry is gradually waking up to this (I hope).
> >I very firmly believe that meds are only a tool to be used in the healing process. If you feel that one day a pharmaceutical is going to heal you, I think that you're denying yourself your own personal power to be firmly engaged in your own healing process.
I no more have the power to 'heal' serious biochemical disturbances in my brain than you have to say, self-heal a faulty heart valve.
> >Life is fraught with pain.
Yes but only masochists willingly submit to it.
> >No pill is ever going to take that away.
I think maybe you are confused. I have no pain, no emotional suffering (other than a life lost to mental illness). I have no hang-ups, no personal tragedies. I suffer from a hereditary disorder which makes pleasure, sleep, cognition etc all but impossible.
> >Learning to live with it lovingly without being afraid is my holy grail.
IMO therapy is useful for situational depression, breakdowns, bereavement & child abuse survivors (+...?). The difference btwn these people & people like myself & Eric (et al) is that *they* have *issues* which could reasonably be expected to impacty upon their mental hlth. I don't.
> > You call yourself Jah.
No my friends call me Jah.
> > I am friends with quite a few Jamaicans, and they have a saying I love to use. Jah provide, mon! Jah lives in you and surrounds you. I and I will see you through. You know what I'm talking about.
I don't think I do. My head is twisted enough & doesn't need anything remotely religious/spiritual messing things up more:)
> > Peace and love.
I agree with that bit!
J.
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