Posted by naughtypuppy on December 7, 2006, at 14:16:34 [reposted on December 8, 2006, at 0:00:52 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Are benzos the only drugs that do anything? » naughtypuppy, posted by Bob on December 7, 2006, at 13:18:20
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> > > > Ignorance is bliss. Thats what I love about this site and sites like it: subjective, experience-based information. Reading reports of doctors being surprised by cessation problems with drugs like Effexor really alarmed me. The information printed on the label isn't a very good place to stop.
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> > > I get irritated almost every time I see an article in the press, or a show on TV. It almost always demonstrates how little the public knows.
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> > What do you expect from an ignorant media and the public that are educated by them that thinks that ESPN is the educational channel!!! Do you think that they will ever have a National Bipolar Day or the Run for Schizophrenia. They look at the people that frequent this board as the equivelent of Hannibal Lechter. I also tend to prefer the term discontinuation symptoms as opposed to withdrawal which makes us look like a bunch of drug addicts looking for their next fix.
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> The stigma of mental illness is evident even when I read your comment about Bipolar Day, or Run for Schizophrenia. It basically comes across as a macabre joke. It just doesn't work. If on the other hand, you had a run for any obvious physical illness, nobody'd give it a second thought. We don't understand what we can't see.
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I think it's more of a matter that we ignore what should be obvious to us because it frightens us more than other illneses for some reason. PS, the above comments I made were intended as pure irony. Belive me, it infuriates me that mental disorders that cause so much misery to so many are largely swept under the carpet.
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