01-03-2025, 03:59 AM
Nice thread.
It might be worth comparing the mark-up of psychotropics in the US to elsewhere. Seems in my nation (UK) there's very little to be made beyond prescriptions since they do shop about to keep their prices low. Currently I'm on a drug from Czech Slovakia which isn't in English. It's why I looked into this and realised it's at least 8x the price in the USA.
The whole "there's no definitive test" for mental illness is true but it's also true for a lot of issues such as IBD or arthritis which is often why an expert should be diagnosing them. Depression and anxiety is in a different league from what's usually classed as a disorder and is why a GP can diagnose the former but not the latter.
Chemical intervention should always be a last resort imho but that really depends on when an 'intervention' was done. If someone with PTSD is being violent then they need meds, same if someone wants to jump off a bridge due to the hallucinations they're having. Depression? Probably not although there's physical telling tale signs of depression and anxiety too. The meds do work for them and they'll often work for the comorbities too such as nerve issues, headaches/migraines with drugs such as Amitriptyline.
I'm in 2 minds about this, I'm one of those so called 'nutters' in a long-term sense and I have plenty of experience with the drugs and the alternatives, including the fringe ones. There's definitely an element of pseudoscience but the diagnostic pathways do provide results and so does the conclusions. We're dealing with the mind after all which still remains one of the biggest mysteries man has encountered.
They're not wrong, just not completely right either. Just my opinion.
It might be worth comparing the mark-up of psychotropics in the US to elsewhere. Seems in my nation (UK) there's very little to be made beyond prescriptions since they do shop about to keep their prices low. Currently I'm on a drug from Czech Slovakia which isn't in English. It's why I looked into this and realised it's at least 8x the price in the USA.
The whole "there's no definitive test" for mental illness is true but it's also true for a lot of issues such as IBD or arthritis which is often why an expert should be diagnosing them. Depression and anxiety is in a different league from what's usually classed as a disorder and is why a GP can diagnose the former but not the latter.
Chemical intervention should always be a last resort imho but that really depends on when an 'intervention' was done. If someone with PTSD is being violent then they need meds, same if someone wants to jump off a bridge due to the hallucinations they're having. Depression? Probably not although there's physical telling tale signs of depression and anxiety too. The meds do work for them and they'll often work for the comorbities too such as nerve issues, headaches/migraines with drugs such as Amitriptyline.
I'm in 2 minds about this, I'm one of those so called 'nutters' in a long-term sense and I have plenty of experience with the drugs and the alternatives, including the fringe ones. There's definitely an element of pseudoscience but the diagnostic pathways do provide results and so does the conclusions. We're dealing with the mind after all which still remains one of the biggest mysteries man has encountered.
They're not wrong, just not completely right either. Just my opinion.
