Hi Mary, > Pills and mental illness - what a subject
Well, Joni started it! ;-) I think all of your points are very insightful. I certainly am more of an observer in this realm than someone who has been critically affected by it, although I have thought about it a lot for many years. The "experts" can't say it is all "this" or "that" and I wonder why they have often taken such a narrow view. One thing I've been told with regard to depression, and I would tend to agree with, is that a severe emotional trauma or event can sometimes shock a person's system to the point that it literally changes one's physiological chemistry, not always neccesarily in the brain but systemically. That's why a pill alone may not cure and why someone may also need some tender loving nurturing or counseling to regain their overall health and well-being. The emotional often cannot be divorced from the bio-chemical - one can affect the other. Thanks for your input. Kakki
