Originally Posted by pinballdoctor

I was banned from two dog forums for speaking out against vaccines. Most people there were vaccinating their pets every year, and didn't see anything wrong with that. Most were using toxic flea collars, walmart dod food, and tap water, and were wondering why their dogs were getting sick and had so many allergies.

Originally Posted by tuina

I haven't been banned from anywhere - I don't bother trying to argue much with fanatics - but I did get blocked on Twitter by a famous anti-alternative medicine, pro-corporate activist!

I got prescribed antidepressants in my early 20s when I didn't know any better. The doctor hardly even looked at me. When I came back for a repeat prescription he said, 'You look much better'. I don't think he even remembered who I was. I'd probably still be taking them now (if I was still alive) if I hadn't gone back to my old family doctor who, fortunately, is generally anti-treatment and took me straight off them with a reduction programme.

I think the medical model of mental health is very problematic. Mental suffering gets modelled as if it's an infectious disease. You 'get' depression like you 'get' cholera. Then you do something to 'cure' it and go back to 'normal'. What on earth is normal?

Looking back on my experiences, having the medical model diagnosis was not helpful at all. It exteriorised my own experience. It would have been better for me to realise that I needed to transform myself and start doing what I finally did start years later - really transforming my mind and body through healthy lifestyle, meditation and holistic exercise.

The place we're starting from in our culture is a horrendous spiritual disaster. That's 'normal'. 'Curing' depression in the medical model amounts to correcting someone from a non-functional disaster to a functional disaster. That's not good enough for me.

Originally Posted by LifeAtZen

thanks ozzie for posting.

Wow, that is sad to hear. And that is what is part of the reason why I tried so hard to talk to people on the depressionforums. Don't our bodies deserve the best? We only have a short time here on Earth.

I am curious, ozzie, what forum it was. Thanks for your contribution.