--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "easyone200" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Having said that, for you to condemn all western medicine is > > absurd. The elimination of > > > smallpox, polio (almost) and the reduction of many other horrific > > diseases seems to me to > > > be a crowning achievement of that terrible school of medicine you > > seem to hate. How > > > about those terrible antibiotics? How many millions did they save?? > > Those saved by > > > penicillin and better drugs don't walk around with a sign that says > > I would be dead from > > > TB or just a tooth abscess if it was not for ......mycin. > > > > Easy, One. Sorry I got you so stirred up. I don't condemn all of > > western medicine and the examples you give above are good ones. But > > this country is too dependent on drugs to "handle" every little thing. > > Let's handle why people get ill or look for spiritual/psychosomatic > > causes before we dive for the medicine cabinet. > > > > > > > As far as psychotropic medicines go they do not work for everyone. > > They can have terrible > > > results for some people. They can also bring people back from the > > horrors of depression > > > and psychosis. I have seen someone brought back from psychotic > > depression by Zoloft. > > > > I got it. From my experience the long term "results" of these drugs > > are not good. I've posted my anecdotal experiences over the last 5 > > years previously. > > As I remember, your experience is drawn from a population in which > people who are depressed and have not found relief with SSRI's or > other "supplements" and are seeking (at the Scient ology Center) some > alternative solutions. Do you seriously extrapolate your sample from > this self-sampling population to be representative of society as a > whole? It seems that drawing rom your population you would find, um, > lets see: people who are depressed and have not found relief with > SSRI's or other "supplements" and are seeking some alternative solutions. > > > > My bottom line is this: there is too much drug > > use in this country. > > Based on real statistical studies? Or on your highly biased (used as a > technical term) extrapolation discussed above? > > > > If a non drug approach works, why not try that > > first? > > Sure. But lots of people have tried lots of things and don't find > relief until they try SSRI's. By 'a non-drug appraach", i am guessing > you don't really mean exercise, or counseling or herbs, or diet, or > volunteer work, or more sleep, etc. but rather your solution of > choice: Scientology. If you are suggesting that all people should try > scientology before SSRI's I find that amusing. > > > I ask you - Does anyone NOT know someone who is on an anti > > depressant? It's an epidemic > > I fail to see your logic here. I could in parallel fashion say "Does > anyone NOT know someone who wears blue jeans occaisionally?!" Its an > epidemic! We Must do something. And by the way, I have just the thing" > > Hidden in rhetoric appears (perhaps) to be the same slanted "steering" > many of us have done in the past -- been there, done that -- but I > like free and open non-agenda driven inquiry better now, thanks.
Every assumption you have made concerning me is incorrect or just incoherent. What makes you think I have anything to do with scientology? In any case I will just stick to incoherent. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
