I agree with every single word you said. What I still don’t understand is how it is possible that I used to believe taking prescriptions drugs was in fact a good thing – because, I thought, I was either improving myself or preventing a disease in the future. I really believed in scientific papers and in medicine in general.
I was also so naive about human nature. I thought most people were good, moral and ethical and that a pharma company would never put out a drug they knew was dangerous let alone harmful. Needless to say I believed the assurances and recommendations of regulators, scientific bodies, medical associations, etc. Why didn’t any adult tell me the truth about homo sapiens and the world when it actually mattered… that’s what I want to know.
Before I got PFS, my life was all but destroyed by antidepressants, which I voluntarily took for 10 years because I thought I was better off on them (and because I believed what I was reading in the literature). I know a couple of other people in my life who were either destroyed or severely damaged by antidepressants, as well as many examples of damage from other drugs.
My mother took Fosamax for osteoporosis and had a hip fracture, which ironically is a known side effect of the drug that is supposed to strengthen your bones. A child in my extended family was misdiagnosed with epilepsy and was most likely brain-damaged from phenobarbital which he took for years in a critical period of brain development as a toddler to prevent seizures.
Someone else I know has every disease known to mankind in all systems and organs of the body as a result of medications for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, conditions she would have been able to entirely prevent and control with lifestyle modifications had doctors told her that 20 years ago. She is now on at least 15 different drugs, most of which combat the damages done from the others. I can keep going…
