My favorite part of the article about why we should keep using antidepressants:
"Many commonly used medicines were used for decades before we understood their mechanisms of action: from aspirin to morphine to penicillin. Knowing they worked provided the impetus for establishing how they worked; and this knowledge generated new treatments."
Given that studies show that anti-depressants don't really work better than placebo, not as compelling argument as this statement would be for, IDK, Ivermectin?
Clown world. Links below.
Food is medicine was the key principle in western medicine for a long time until the institutionalized medical industry came along.
Our bodies need all the nutrition we can obtain and to deal with grief that is a normal human experience. We deal with that human experience by talking to someone else or doing an activity. Grief is a normal process and when one is instantly diagnosed with depression it undermines the entire point of the grieving process.
The grieving process is time to reflect on our own lives and to learn. And from what we learn from that grieving process we can grow in new ways.
The worst I have seen is putting a time frame for when we are supposed to grieve the loss of a loved one. For some it could take two weeks for others it may take months or years.
Saying that still grieving over the death of someone over a two week period as abnormal is morally and ethically wrong in my opinion. People should be allowed to heal on their own time table and reflect on their own accord.