Pills or Therapy

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-04-18 11:45am

Let's say that you are in a bit of a crisis. You feel that your life is going nowhere, that you are insecure and don't know what to do, that you have been wasting your life up to this point etc. etc. blah blah. You go to see a psychologist and he gives you two choices.

1) To get to the bottom of the matter through several sessions of psychotherapy.
2) To take some pills that will make you feel all right again.

Assume the two cost the same. Which would you choose?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-04-18 11:52am

Therapy. Better to actually cure the problem then ignore it...

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-18 11:55am

Heh, if they both costed about the same, then the phycho therapy DEFFINITLY ... thats a really good deal.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-18 12:44pm

I'd go with Therapy. Less chance of side effects, and like Innerbrat said, it's better to confront the problem than suppress it.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-04-18 12:49pm

Therapy to fix the actual problem.

Unless the problem is a chemical imbalance or some biological thing, then you would need medication.

victorhadin · Post by **victorhadin** » 2003-04-18 12:58pm

Pills it is. I've never really trusted psychiatry to be worth its salt.

Chemistry, on the other hand....

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-18 01:42pm

I did both.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-04-18 02:52pm

I still do both. The therepy is helping me through it. The Prozac stops me from ending it.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-18 04:28pm

well, I got tired of the pills.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-04-18 06:37pm

alcohol

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2003-04-18 07:39pm

salm wrote:alcohol

A-fucking-men to THAT, brotha.

master_yoda · Post by **master_yoda** » 2003-04-18 08:14pm

Therapy. My dad completely fucked up his life with prescripted pills. I would to avoid turning out like that.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-04-18 08:19pm

Tried therapy....trouble is I'm too smart for my own good....though surely someone else out there can appreciate the fun in analyzing the anlysis of you the psych people are doing......

Though I dont think they liked the fact I knew more about cognitive behaviour models than them.....

I'm on pills right now.....they actually seem to be helping......though everyone is different, and I should add the disclaimer that the side effects of all the others ones they tried me on were odd to say the least....

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-19 06:49am

Queeb Salaron wrote:
salm wrote:alcohol
A-fucking-men to THAT, brotha.

For the most part... bad advice, is usually fun advice. Here is a good example of fun advice xD