Posted by Bartholomew on December 29, 2000 at 18:09:38:
In Reply to: Re: depressed fives? posted by laurence on December 29, 2000 at 10:59:47:
: I'd have a lot to say on that subject. However, it isn't easy to summarize in one paragraph. My own experience has taught me to reject brain chemistry. Several years ago, I went through an accute depression which was necessary, the emergency of much repressed pain. What has helped me most has been artistic expression. Some find gestalt therapy works well for them. Anyway, any therapy involving body/feelings can only be helpful to us E5s. I also found that systemic therapy inspired from the research work of the Palo Alto center can be incredibly powerful at uncovering pathological relational patterns in the family. Anyway, medication is the worst you could do to yourself, it won't cure the symptoms, it just tricks the mind for a while, long term consequences can be very negative.
I agree with you. I think the main problem with brain drugs is, the brain is very complex, and brain drugs are very simple. If you do the same thing to all parts of the brain by adding certain chemicals to them, sure, it might help out some parts, but it will change the operation of other parts as well, sometimes for the worse. My analogy is to traffic. Say that a parade is going on, and people are getting killed by cars while marching in the parade. The city officials decide to set up roadblocks. But, like using a drug on the entire brain, they set up roadblocks EVERYWHERE. The people stop getting killed, but the economy of the city is hurt from the lack of traffic.