oomis1105 – Because you happened across one quack -why are you paiting us all with one brush?
“I don’t believe in this type of over-prescribed therapy. Only a very few people are actually clinically depressed, but SO many are being prescribed Prozac and Zoloft”
Actually there are many people whom are clinically depressed. And most practioners Do Not over-prescribe like you said! Why don’t you do some research before you mouth off? “
Don’t hold back – tell me what you REALLY think! Contrary to your rather hostile sounding opinion, I am not mouthing off. I am relating a personal and extremely painful cautionary tale that when a doctor wants to immediately prescribe anti-depressants, it should only be after a FULL and thorough medical examination has ruled out a physiological cause for the depressive symptoms. If there IS such an underlying cause, prescribing such medication can actually KILL the patient, who has symptoms of depression because the thyroid, adrenal glands, and functions of other parts of the body are being supressed due to PHYSICAL illness. My mother could have died in a few more weeks of no thyroid or adrenal hormones in her body. At the VERY least, she would have gone irreversibly blind, because the tumor was growing too close to her optic nerve. Had the doctor notified us she was physically ill, she would have gotten treatment six months sooner, and the quality of her life (and ours, as we watched her suffering)for all those months would have been vastly different. If someone is mouthing off, it is not I. And I happen to know there is an epidemic of frum teenage girls on Prozac and other SSRIs in my neighborhood. They cannot ALL be clinically depressed, because if they are, it’s uch und vey.