Americans taking too many pills

[bionicbadger]

1/2 of all Americans take a prescription drug and 1/4 of women take an anti-depressant, prescription drugs only seem to work 30% of the time. Meanwhile, 85% of new drugs have been found to have little or no benefit. And those miracle anti-depressants? They don’t even outperform placebos

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669001/...dont-even-work

Same thing is happening here. You can see it with kids and the huge number of ADHD diganosis and prescriptions.
People need to grow a pair and suck it up and not expect a pill (that usually doesn't work) to fix everything.

[Ottomaddox]

Wow, lots of pretty pictures and infograms there. They must be right.

[tsat]

Wow, lots of pretty pictures and infograms there. They must be right.

They had to put it in a form that americans where most likely to understand

[XtremeModder]

My family doctor is like this, I rarely go to the doctors office but I can literally (after he opens my file on his computer) see him grab a pen and paper getting ready to write a prescription. No matter what I say, there's a pill for that (much like apps eh?)

I try to stay away from prescriptions unless it's needed like an antibiotic or something, I had to take an antidepressant (well, it was my choice but I was going through a really bad time a few years ago) called Wellbutrin XL and was told it would take up to 30 days to take its biggest effect. After a month I felt great and kept taking it, fast forward another month then bam everything just seemed so much worse than before. I remember getting a refill at shoppers drug mart and when I got home I realized they gave me a different antidepressant, they looked completely different but imagine what could have happened if someone didn't notice and took completely different type of it.

What did i do then? Exactly what I was told to never do. I stopped taking it immediately and 2 days later I felt fine and have been fine ever since and never took anything like that since. I also started talking to a close friend about a bunch of personal stuff including those meds and she had no idea I was going through that (cause id put up a barrier and seemed happy around people).

My point? None really but I do think too many people rely on medication to fix their problems. Overweight? Why not exercise, but obviously some people's bodies don't know what to do with what's put in (a friend had this problem), depressed? Talk to someone and open up, it helps. Etc, etc, etc.

Remember the story about the pregnant woman that was given plan b by accident? (or something of that type). I wonder whatever happened with that.

Some things are needed though, my mom takes whatever pills she needs to regulate her blood pressure, a friend of mine takes Prozac, etc

[lordnikon]

You went cold turkey after taking it for 1-2 months? Wow that's impressive. Most people experience withdrawal and the proper way to do is to taper down.

[virgilaug]

Duhhhhhhhhhh. Look who they vote into office every 4 years.

[XtremeModder]

You went cold turkey after taking it for 1-2 months? Wow that's impressive. Most people experience withdrawal and the proper way to do is to taper down.

I know, I literally freaked and was just really agitated and pissed off at nothing so I said **** it, stopped taking it

A good friend of mine said his mom takes the same kind of thing and she just has 0 emotion anymore and she's like a robot or something. I won't let a med do that to me.

I think that whole tapering off is needed but I didn't take it too long. The odd thing is that after a few days of stopping I felt even better and for the most have been for the better part of 2 years since I took it