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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
Having a trained professional who can help you develop coping strategies, as well as provide unconditional support and empathy cannot be anything other than beneficial.
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Aelia, from your recent posts, you're saying that only doctors can make certain of this and will undoubtably help others. But just because people have a doctorate or degree in medicine does not make them a guaranteed help. Case and point, me.
About a month and a half ago, I went to see my psychiatrist to start taking medication, so she offered a particular one to me. Tegritol I believe it's spelt, is a very dangerous medication. She went into the explanation of it, sugar coated it, and said, "A bad reaction to it is a rash anywhere on your body, if that happens, stop taking it." Sounds reasonable right? Nope.
Tegritol is a medication to fight depression, that's true, but it's also dangerous as hell to be messing with. You get a rash on
one place on your body, your palms, that's because it has an allergic reaction to your blood. If you abruptly stop taking it, it will kill you and it has proved more often than not to be fatal. It doesn't matter if you've spent one year or twenty in your field of expertise, that doesn't always make that person right by any means.