Would you let an open, large, and painful wound that is oozing
pus go without a trip to the doctor’s and a willingness to use the antibiotic
(or other remedy) that she prescribes? Then why not at least try a
pharmaceutical remedy for what is awry in your brain, causing mental health
symptoms?
To be sure, there ISN’T ANY perfect mental health pharmaceutical.
Almost always, for example, several have to be tried before a workable solution
is established by the psychiatrist and you in tandem–and it will probably have
to be changed as there come down the research pipeline new treatments.
Actually, there was a golden era of many decades after Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin in 1928 when antibiotics worked, until gram-negative
bacteria started to evolve so that now many microbes are resistant, and,
especially in hospitals, vanquishing no longer occurs.
Just like working with
mental health symptoms. Only, while the U. S. National Institute of Mental
Health and its counterparts are trying to develop a taxonomy of the genetics
that corresponds to various symptoms, essentially there are few clues let alone
a road map. This inability to target a treatment to a mental health symptom is
why lifestyle changes are so important. Your psychiatrist and mental health team
should be treating the whole you.
But the pharmaceutical or other biological
remedy offered is worth your careful thought. I believe that I have walked a
mile in your shoes. See if you really have a good reason to
refuse trying meds towards making better your mental health
symptoms.
We will have “personalized psychiatry” according to our genetic
makeup and various biological markers available someday. But, for now, the
available treatments must be administered by trial-and-error.
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