Whether it is for physical, emotional or psychological healing it is easy to get a prescription for your problem. However, the medical industry has become overly reliant on medications to solve problems and doles them out irresponsibly as well.
Let’s clear something up right away: Medications are almost always going to give you more problems in the long run and the negative consequences almost always outweigh the positive ones and this goes for almost everyone!
That’s right: Unless you are suffering from a severe disorder like schizophrenia or psychosis, it is unlikely that you need medications and without a doubt you are developing a physical and possibly emotional reliance and dependence upon them.
The psychiatric community is overly generous in diagnosing people with problems and then prescribing meds. What the psychiatric community ought to be doing is helping people learn how to cope, adjust life-expectations and teaching strategies for coping that work rather than masking symptoms and ignoring core issues. Maybe you’re not bi-polar or depressed and in need of meds. Maybe you have real issues and can learn to improve them.
As a State Certified Addiction Specialist I am constantly fighting an uphill battle against prescribed medication. Did you know that Xanax is a highly addicting and dangerous benzodiazepine? That Vicodin is a highly addictive drug similar to heroin? That Adderol is frighteningly similar to the most sinister drug destroying our youth today, methamphetamine?
Over time, the mind and body adjust to these drugs and they cease to work. Once they stop working they actually intensify many of the symptoms they are designed to treat. When you try to stop taking them you put your health at risk; sometimes your life! Most people continue taking them feeling safe and only mildly affected giving them a false sense of security without realizing how dangerous they are.
We have become a society that thinks of medicine as a first solution instead of a last resort and it should be the other way around. See a professional counselor who can teach you coping skills, emotional management and strategies and process life on your own terms and achieve and maintain happiness.
Call for a free evaluation of your diagnosis and medication use. Affordable drug screening and testing is available for youths and families.
Scott Spackey is a California registered addiction specialist, interventionist, life-coach hypnotherapist and bio-feedback technician. For more information, please call 661-299-1966, email Scott@Life-Mind.com or visit www.LIFE-MIND.com .