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Originally Posted by Mutt
and you don't even want to investigate where the problems *might* originate? medication can help if used the right way but in the majority of cases it's a band-aid and one that won't last.
so you have all these weird symptoms and thought processes and you told them to who - a family physician? a psychiatrist? psychologist?
you have multiple problems - you don't like looking into a mirror - that is probably 'body dysmorphia' - you get feelings of despersonalation and panic when you're in the bathroom or having sex - you have major problems. and you're right we are very ignorant of how the human brain works but for the drug companies and the doctors for whom it is easier to just write out a prescription for Xanax and an anti-depressant it's in their interest to just tell somebody like you that you have a 'chemical imbalance' and all you need is a little pill that will fix that imbalance. It's easy. For some that works, for most it doesn't.
Psychotherapy has gone out of style, because it is a long drawn out process, expensive and alot of times it never works really.
One thing I would bet a huge amount of money on is that you are normal - I will bet that these issues or similar ones have been with you since you were a child.
All I'm saying is there are many points of view regarding what you have and if I were you I'd make sure you were seeing somebody who specializes in it and not just your garden variety doctor or psychiatrist. It's usually best to go to a doctor affiliated with a university hospital, they are the ones who are on top of things.
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Actually, you're one of the most ignorant people I have ever met in my entire internet life.
I am not one of those "idiots" that run around pretending I have problems and just go running up one day to the doctors to "fix" it up and make it all okay again with unknown pills. I have studied mental disorders (extensively, I am very autodidatic); I don't take a doctor's word as gospel, and when I do goto the doctors on Monday I am taking pages of documentation on the drugs that he may prescribe me, to make sure I don't get stuck with a dangerous SSRI. (I will reject any SSRI regimen.)
Also, you mention psychotherapy - For me, I personally believe that wouldn't do anything. I just think differently, and I'm not even sure why - I just had a panic attack one day six years ago and it has gotten progressively worse. This isn't some kind of.. lame nonsense excuse "pity me I have problems"; I really do have some kind of thinking disorder that makes me not feel "normal".
Also, I don't have body dysmorphic disorder; I just don't like looking into mirrors because of the original problem I have with anxiety or whatever.
Also, these issues haven't been with me since I was a child; the first panic attack I had was in 2001 (I've had this problem 6 years; no catalyst), and I was not a child at that time. It is hard to explain, but the shit just hit me and it never went away. It is just a feeling of constant unnormalness, I guess you have to feel it to buy into the whole "chemical imbalance" thing, but I think that is what it is - without listening to doctors.
If you have ever had a really bad depersonalized LSD/Shroom trip; that can barely almost explain one of my panic attacks. (But the panic attack is like 1000x worse.)
Anyway, I guess you're one of those guys who think people are bitches and have problems that they can't deal with so they run to Xanax. Me, I have no problems; I just have a thinking problem caused by no outside catalyst. I am geniunly fucked up for some unknown reason. If I knew why I thought like this, I would obviously stop thinking like this, but it is just "there", I have no choice. Running isn't going to help it, sex isn't going to help it, drinking isn't going to help it, Benadryl won't help it, exercise isn't going to help it - but Klonopin for some reason does really work and somehow balances me to feel normal. I do not know why, I can't say why; it just does.
I'm just pissed you think I'm this uneducated idiot that will take any pill handed to him. When I go to the doctor's office I will probably be more informed about this than him. I have respect for doctors, but I also study things myself because I feel it is my responsibility to understand everything about myself.
It is just... annoying that you come off as this pompous know it all who thinks people have 'fake' problems.
Now, this was all typed meaning to inform and not in anger at all; I don't personally attack people in real life or on forums. I was just bothered by the fact that you think I am part of this commercialized pill nation; I actually agree with you that too many people are on pills for no reason, AND I think medication commercials on television should be banned. I doubt you care what I have to say, but everything in this post was not spoken from anger.