this may just be me but i have my doubts. wouldn’t it be awesome if they could somehow put all the medication into one. that way you arent looking at your medicine cabinet like “i need this for that and that for this” and as you count how many you need for how many problems you have you wont become depressed realizing just how much is wrong. instead all you have to count is 1. yes there are problems with that like the trail and error of finding what works so of course youd have to go through that before you can have only one but there are sadly many more problems with this idea. such as having to take different medication at different times of the day. but that can be solved by making more then one pill and just mixing the ones that you need at that time so the most you would need is 3. but then what if one stopped working then youd have to figure it out and go through the whole process again. why cant there just be a wonder drug and before someone suggests weed it stopped helping me and i get the best from where im from. none of that ditch s**t.
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They already invented 1 pill that fixes everything. It’s called cyanide.
I meant where you are alive but yeah you have a good point.
All I keep thinking is about the side effects of some all in one pill, like if they just tried to combine all the medications for depression:
SSRIs (which are the newest, paxil zoloft and so on)
MAOIs (almost no one takes them, the side effects are so bad)
Tri cyclics (older versions, work for some people, myself included once.)
Alternatives (Wellbutrin and so on, supposedly there are people it works for.)
then there are the really rough ones:
Anti convulsives, lithium and combined therapies. So some people do take two meds at once just for depression.
Anyway, it’s really easy to shoot your liver straight out just with the above. Add in anti anxieties or other mental health meds and it’s dangerous. My doctor runs a software checking interactions every time he prescribes me something, because the wrong mix could kill me (not that I’d mind right now)….
I’m not convinced that there is a perfect drug anyway…. I’ve been searching for over a decade for a treatment that deals with everything and there is always a substantial price to pay for any benefit. My current meds hurt my stomach, make it hard to eat, you can imagine how serious it was that my doctor was okay with that.
The anwser isnt more chemicals. The anwser is fixing society and rebuilding perosnal support in the community. If you dont have family, the community is there for you. This focus on socila media is terrible diysraction, focusing on strangers miles away, who cannot be there in person as a real friend for encouragement. I also think the future will hold ways to re balance bio chemistry without chemicals but with sound. For roght now, we are living in a very outdated, difficult to take time in whihc many feel they justdnt fit here. All the crap is hard to take, priorites are on the wring things. Life is stressful when we have within our means ways to make things easier yet, the greed monegers jus make it harder to get morw power. Its a sick world as i know you agree. Maybe look into having your thyroid checked. If your lucky and cna tolerate thyroid meds, that ocukd be your one pill(most need to supplement it iwth others though).