2003
This is Survivor Story number 43.
Total number of stories in current database is 77
9/29/2003
Our Politicians Have to Do Something
Antidepressants
“Heaven help us all.”
I just discovered your website for the first time today.
I have no idea if this is something of interest to you, but one of the things in my experience with the medical profession that absolutely infuriates me is the following.
A few years ago I developed intense episodes of anxiety. Over a period of nine months I went through a side effects nightmare with a variety of psychiatric medications – Paxil, Wellbutrin, Neurontin, etc. I experienced weakness, nausea, vomiting, sleeplessness, depression, tremors, trouble breathing – just to name a few.
Finally I got fed up and went to a holistic physician. He discovered that I had many food sensitivities. And when I stopped eating those foods – lo and behold – my anxiety attacks vanished!
All those trips to the psychologist and psychiatrist – all those darn medications and side effects – all that needless suffering on top of the condition I was already suffering from – all for what!
Did my conventional family doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist ever once raise the possibility of food sensitivities as a cause of my anxiety attacks?
No – not once.
Did those doctors even give me the time of day when I went back and told them how the problem with my anxiety attacks was solved?
Of course not!
Our politicians need to do something about this absolutely insane situation. We’re a bunch of sheep getting eaten by the wolves out here and I don’t see anyone in Washington doing a darn thing about it!
Heaven help us all,
Paul Lamon
Morrisville, PA
