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[Shannon]

Rainbow, my argument isn't that pills don't do anything beneficial. They often do, when they are not carelessly prescribed or mis-prescribed.

My point is that pills do not fix the issue. They just temporarily patch it. Sometimes, we don't know how else to deal with it... but that does not change the fact that the pill is not fixing the issue.

I can state with a high degree of certainty that had I not been prescribed Zoloft, I would not have survived my early depression. Zoloft kept me alive long enough to figure out the real problem (which I had to do on my own, since in my doctor's eyes, "It's fixed now!" after she prescribed some pills) and fix it. My issue? I was eating too much in the way of carbohydrates, and not enough protein. I adjusted my diet, and voila. Zoloft took a hike. Did the pills fix the problem? No. Did they do something for it? Yes. But they did not fix it. They temporarily patched it.

Ryan's issues are not going away because of a pill. If the pill was actually fixing them, he wouldn't need to keep taking the pill. Same for anything else. Pills are a quick fix, a temporary patch. People assume that the pills ARE the fix, but they're not. Useful in the short term, yes. But they should be used as a short term stop-gap to find a solution, not as the end all be all solution themselves.