Yes, let's put our faith in the clinical trials that say this drug is largely effective and harmless. My doctor certainly thought so. He wasn't the only doctor to think this either. That drug ended up nearly destroying my life.
The question remains, was the drug largely effective and harmless? A case study of one is useless. If you were the only person negatively affected and 2 billion peoples lives were saved...I'd say it was largely effective and harmless.
It is a year and a half since I stopped taking it and I am still experiencing many of the symptoms I had initially upon discontinuation, though with the help of my ND and her diet and supplement regime, they are gradually lessening.
If other people were also affected, did they do better or worse than you in alleviating symptoms if they didn't visit an ND?
. They go to her to help fix the damage that allopathic medicine wrought on them.
The question is: Does she help fix the damage allopathic medicine has wrought on them more than say, nothing or consulting a doctor and following their advice?
My own GP doesn't believe me when I tell him about my symptoms because "this cannot be."
Then your GP is an ass. My GP believes me when I tell him about things.
I asked if anyone knows how allopathic medicine cures anything, apart from with antibiotics.
It depends how you define allopathic. If you mean it to mean it to mean "Conventional Medicine" then very much yes. For instance, removing an appendix which has inflamed. It might reduce swelling using anti-inflammatories to prevent pressure on a certain organ which is causing symptoms. Whether or not actual allopathy cures things though is irrelevant - conventional medicine certainly does.
Naturopathy believes that the body can usually heal itself, given the right materials.
Whereas conventional medicine shows evidence that this is trivially true.
A poor environment, toxins outside and inside the body, and poor nutrition can all be catalysts for disease
Yes, obviously. Conventional medicine does this too. I was diagnosed as very probably being allergic to alcohol and was advised to drink only in moderation (ie., don't get drunk). By a medical doctor, no less (in fact several of them).
Allopathic medicine overwhelmingly treats the symptoms rather than their causes. Case in point, various kinds of mental illness. Usually you get a drug for these from your doc. No one should be pretending that these drugs actually cure anything.
You are quite right - many drugs used for mental health problems don't cure mental health problems and nobody pretends they do. They do, however, help restore normal brain chemistry so the person is able to function. If the problem is psychological in nature, these drugs will allow the person to function well enough to work through the psychological problems with psychologist or counsellor.
There are mental health problems that can be cured, and they are.
Naturopathy sees mental illness as a symptom of an underlying problem.
As does conventional medicine. That underlying problem might be physical or psychological. Both can be treated, and even cured.
I have first-hand experience of seeing quite a number of people come off psychotropic drugs, and stay off them for years, using naturopathic methods. Sometimes their own docs had them drugged up on 10 or more meds at a time initially. That was their idea of "treatment."
Indeed. And no doubt some people can get off drugs, not consult a naturopath, and be fine. Which is more effective? Some people can get off active drugs, take a placebo and remain fine. What's more effective a real naturopathic remedy, or a placebo in these cases?
I've never heard of a doctor prescribing ten types of meds as initial treatment for a mental illness so it must be pretty severe. I know people with very bad mental illnesses and they don't need that many medications. Of course, it could be that the doctor is a corrupt bastard. That's a problem with a private system though, not with the medicine - surely?
It is up to you whether you'd like to learn more about this, or whether you dismiss it as meaningless anecdotal evidence. I sincerely hope that you or your loved ones will not have to suffer severe illness before you consider other possibilities outside of conventional medicine.
My loved ones have suffered severe illnesses. And doctors have made them better, and guided them through any necessary lifestyle changes they might need to make. I hope if the disease is severe you wouldn't run to a naturopath, or advise others to do likewise.
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