No, that’s just some crackpipe bullshit Big Phar.ma made up. If medication doesn’t work, that doesn’t mean you have “treatment resistant depression.” It just means what Big Phar.ma is shovelling down your throat doesn’t work, bc it doesn’t. If you have a gushing wound, taking a pill won’t help. If you are dehydrated, taking a pill doesn’t help. You need to address the problem.
I have deep depression. But If I was given enough money and a nice house in a nice area and had enough guaranteed money to live on to buy food and other stuff and felt secure, I’d be less stressed and less depressed. Does this mean I have “treatment resistant depression”? No. It just means drugs aren’t the answer to my depression, and to most other people’s depressions.
There is a treatment that works, and it’s called-drumroll- A BETTER LIFE- with better life conditions. THAT is real treatment. Not some stupid drugs that don’t fix the root cause of my depression, and that of many people’s depressions.
If your problem is lack of friendships, a pill won’t help.
If your problem is a lack of a significant other/ part.ner, a pill won’t help.
If your problem is lack of money, a pill won’t help.
If your problem is shit neighbors, or a shitty apt, a pill won’t help.
If your problem is health issues from a car accident, taking a psych drug won’t help.
These are all REAL WORLD issues, not something wrong with our heads. Popping a pill isn’t going to do diddly squat if you have real problems which cause you to be depressed.
Want to help me? Send me money, not a fucking pill.
Treatment resistant depression my ass.
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I keep wanting to come up with outlandish plans to present to insurance, and I could justify it by predicting the cost of care to keep me in a place that I need so many drugs just to function
so this morning I found this beautiful house on a gorgeous lake in Michigan for 1.1 mil. of course I don’t have it, but that’s not the entire pitch. I’d like to get a houseboat and dock it there, nothing too big, just enough for me to live my life…. and when I get fed up with the universe I’d putter my boat out into the middle of the lake and drop anchor…. literally miles away from my troubles.
I’m just saying at $1.5 mil, it’s probably cheaper than another thirty years of medications, doctor visits and therapists. Everything you said is also true about therapists.
You know what’s great about the middle of the lake? no neighbors, ah would be paradise.
I think that those without our struggles think we should be “grateful” which entirely misses the point. I for one am grateful, could be worse, but that gratitude doesn’t undo depression. Gratitude doesn’t keep my neighbor from trying to blow me up
I’m a little hyper focused, sorry.
anyway, if I had money to apply to the problem I’d be alleviating my own suffering first. Put the oxygen mask on yourself first and all that. But perhaps someday, fantasies are the only hope I know any more, and having enough is certainly quite the fantasy.
“I’m just saying at $1.5 mil, it’s probably cheaper than another thirty years of medications, doctor visits and therapists.”
–>Same here, but them giving us money so we become happy and more productive members of society? Nah, they don’t want that. They make the most money if we’re miserable, alive and unable to die, being on psych drugs the rest of our lives, or being inpatient. If we “got better,” where would the money be in that?
It’s like restaurants. Imagine if humans never needed to eat anymore? All the restaurants, markets, grocery stores, etc would all go out of business.
What if everyone became happy? And healthy? All the hospitals and drs and insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies and a million other things tied to the medical industrial complex, would all vanish. They need to make money. And keeping ppl sick and depressed and poor makes them the most money.
So it isn’t about what “costs” less. To us, it “costs” less to just give us a nice 1.5M piece of property. But to them, the generate >1.5M keeping a single person hooked on multiple psych drugs for life. Plus all the side effects of the drugs will require way more healthcare.
Everything is about money. Keeping us sick and unhappy and poor makes them the most money.
And so here we are…
“so this morning I found this beautiful house on a gorgeous lake in Michigan for 1.1 mil”
–>Funny, same. So last night I was looking at housing in another country. A third world country. The houses are way cheaper there so it’s more affordable. I want a luxury house in a nice third world country. Can’t get jack sh*t but a dump here in America for that price.