Reply #20: I always think of the huge number of success stories [View All]

[proud2BlibKansan]

Not that any mistakes are okay, but modern medicine does get some things right.

As for my personal story, it is the extent of my own experience in the treatment of mental illness. My family feels quite fortunate. And we know that had we allowed our family member to decide for herself if she needed meds, she would most likely have died from a suicide. She made 4 attempts before finally being diagnosed and treatment planned. So we had no problem deciding she needed meds and worked hard to convince her this was the right way to go. And after 25 years she takes fewer meds today than when initially diagnosed. So we have not seen modern psychiatry forcing multiple meds on her. It's been quite the opposite. Her doctors are always trying to reduce her meds.