I work with many doctors and PA's and I supply them with the drugs that they hand out to folks. I'll say this..... Most providers I know see medication as the cure all for everything, especially mental health professionals. Hell, I was on happy, feel good pills for the first 6 months I was here because I thought I was going to strangle every person I came in contact with. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's created a culture where every time you go to the doctor, you get drugs. Got a cold, have an allegra, feeling fed up, have a celexa, can't sleep, have an ambien, wanna feel drunk, have a kolonopin. First of all, you don't have to take them. A cold isn't going to kill you. If you can't sleep, get some excercise and eventually you will. And, unless you're a psychopath, schizophrenic, or a sociopath, most mental health drugs are just there to give you coping skills. Second of all, if a doctor gives you drugs, they assume that you won't abuse them. I'm hard-pressed to think of any drug, other than some heart burn medications and birth control, that it is ok to drink while taking them. While you may not drift in to a coma or die immediately, the long term health effects are going to fuck you up in the long run. Drinking and taking Ambien reeks havoc upon your liver. That's bad. I don't know what i'm saying here, it's just a buyer's beware warning. Ask for alternatives to drugs when you see a doctor and, for the love of God, don't take them recreationally. Prescription drugs exist to alter you chemically on a permanent basis and they are for sick people. Smoke weed, like a respectable drug user.
I'm not doctor, but I know enough of them to know that some of them are shitty and they are just people doing a job, which is to fix you. And they'll do that by whatever means they have available.
Now for the feel good portion. I think you are pretty and, as I recall, you smell good.
Beau: I heard about this book on NPR; during the discussion he mentioned how acid reflux came about as a medicated condition, and what all those medicines were really for before they decided to invent acid reflux, rename the drugs and then compensate doctors for diagnosing it & prescribing said drugs.(yes, I know doctors are routinely compensated for brand loyalty) If your meager holiday gift weren't on it's way, you'd be receiving this instead.
Sarah, as another person who doesn't go any further than ibuprofen/acetominophen/aspirin, I was also taken aback by the number of medications you've written about here over the last year or so. I second everything B&S have said here, and I hope there is relief somewhere for you and that you find it soon. To steal from Beau, and even though we've only seen one another maybe once or twice in person, I also remember you as quite pretty. Beau can probably vouch for me having said so.
Also, what's happening to you does not make you a fuck-up. No one who clothes their Roboraptor could be defined as such.
I work with many doctors and PA's and I supply them with the drugs that they hand out to folks. I'll say this.....
Most providers I know see medication as the cure all for everything, especially mental health professionals. Hell, I was on happy, feel good pills for the first 6 months I was here because I thought I was going to strangle every person I came in contact with. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's created a culture where every time you go to the doctor, you get drugs. Got a cold, have an allegra, feeling fed up, have a celexa, can't sleep, have an ambien, wanna feel drunk, have a kolonopin.
First of all, you don't have to take them. A cold isn't going to kill you. If you can't sleep, get some excercise and eventually you will. And, unless you're a psychopath, schizophrenic, or a sociopath, most mental health drugs are just there to give you coping skills. Second of all, if a doctor gives you drugs, they assume that you won't abuse them. I'm hard-pressed to think of any drug, other than some heart burn medications and birth control, that it is ok to drink while taking them. While you may not drift in to a coma or die immediately, the long term health effects are going to fuck you up in the long run. Drinking and taking Ambien reeks havoc upon your liver. That's bad.
I don't know what i'm saying here, it's just a buyer's beware warning. Ask for alternatives to drugs when you see a doctor and, for the love of God, don't take them recreationally. Prescription drugs exist to alter you chemically on a permanent basis and they are for sick people. Smoke weed, like a respectable drug user.
I'm not doctor, but I know enough of them to know that some of them are shitty and they are just people doing a job, which is to fix you. And they'll do that by whatever means they have available.
Now for the feel good portion. I think you are pretty and, as I recall, you smell good.
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Beau: I heard about this book on NPR; during the discussion he mentioned how acid reflux came about as a medicated condition, and what all those medicines were really for before they decided to invent acid reflux, rename the drugs and then compensate doctors for diagnosing it & prescribing said drugs.(yes, I know doctors are routinely compensated for brand loyalty) If your meager holiday gift weren't on it's way, you'd be receiving this instead.
Sarah, as another person who doesn't go any further than ibuprofen/acetominophen/aspirin, I was also taken aback by the number of medications you've written about here over the last year or so. I second everything B&S have said here, and I hope there is relief somewhere for you and that you find it soon. To steal from Beau, and even though we've only seen one another maybe once or twice in person, I also remember you as quite pretty. Beau can probably vouch for me having said so.
Also, what's happening to you does not make you a fuck-up. No one who clothes their Roboraptor could be defined as such.
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Brilliant!
So really, would you go ahead and put me on your friends list already? I'm completely fabulous. Ask your wife.
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