Well, the thing is if you take it in order to escape from your problems, you tend to eventually just heap more of them onto your metaphorical plate. Because of course no drug can take away or solve whatever's wrong, merely help you escape for awhile. So then one day you find you're sat there with ALL your original issues PLUS another lot of drug-related ones on top of those to deal with.
And you feel absolutely defeated and like you have no way out.
That's the point where you either start sorting your shit or lie down and give up on yourself.
PS I exempt the use of certain drugs for certain mental health problems from this. Both cannabis and opiate use absolutely DO help some people live with some conditions, and manage their lives, where conventional therapy has failed.
well opiate use I can only agree on if the physical pain is so great that there is need for them.
if someone is in chronic pain, and there is no way of ever getting rid of said pain, or they will at least have it for some years, yes opiates are the answer, 100%. But someone like me who only has light to mediocre chronic pain, fuck that, don't ruin your life with opiates and learn to accept pain. It's a big part of life.
other than that, as a pragmatic medical worker, i just don't ever think it's necessary, and in so many cases opiates just do much more harm than they ever were intended to solve..
I agree with you on many points, and I thank you for borrowing me this point of view,
but I cannot totally agree on your PS
First I need to clarify what you mean by conventional therapy? Because to me this means CT, CBT, music therapy, physio, and so on. But since you at least live in Germany(? not entirely sure) psychotherapy/psychiatry should be the go-to "conventional therapy", i.e: throwing drugs at the patient till they shut the fuck up and take more drugs - which I just cannot agree with.
That isn't conventional therapy, and it fails 99% of the time(in the long-run. short-term is not bad actually, it's just that it will all come crashing down eventually), because: it is designed to fail.
It is the symptom logic translated to psychology. Defeat the symptom, never the cause, so you will have customers forever. It's planned obsolescence in medicine. Pure capitalism - and also the medical standard if you have a look around in the West. Most doctors will prescribe you something for your symtoms, the cause remains untouched.
I have told so many psychotherapists to fuck off during the years of my work, I hate them with a passion, tbh.
Psychotherapists have fucking killed patients of mine, I kid you not. Patient too loud? Too "annoying"? Trying to escape? Oh how about slowly drugging them to death? And they get through with that shit, because it was a "therapeutic measure" whatever the fuck that means
If there's any people I want to watch burning in everlasting hellfire, they're all psychotherapists.
What we do, real down to earth drug-free therapy is where it's at, and I don't think it can really fail. It's always a step in the right direction, just a matter of if it was enough. I don't want to say I haven't had people die on me, but we have much more success in the long run. The short term sucks, I get it - not our goal. We want to take people out of that comfy zone.
