Troubles of Mind

Psychiatric medication involves a dichotomy between free will and the use of mind-altering substances, natural or otherwise. Where is the line to be drawn There is an old saying that everybody is a little crazy some are just more so than others. When does more so become too much The notation is that we are all affected to a degree by obsessive compulsive disorders (OCDs), with some of us severely so, or clearly so. Where, therefore, should the medication start and where should it end  

Or are we all to become zombies, having no personality, no disorders, no genius, no eccentricities, with any and all chemical dysfunctions of the body adjusted by drugs This, in turn, will produce many other dysfunctions. The happiness pills and elixirs are the buzzwords of the moment. 

There are those of us, nevertheless, who will for good enough reason settle for being average. On the other hand, there are those who perceive reality as so abhorrent that any sort of change or relief is welcome. What then What has happened to a 

The most common and perhaps least talked about mental problems are depression and anxiety. The panic attack, or anxiety attack, is recognized as a fellow-traveler with depression. It has been called the common cold of psychological complaints. A state of misery is apparently the near-normal human condition. Not for nothing did Thoreau write about us leading lives of quiet desperation. This pervasive life crippler is slowly yielding to a nutritional and biochemical approach, which cannot be too soon. 

Another prominent name in the field of mental problems is Priscilla Slagle, a psychiatrist M.D. who also prescribes the amino acids. Her book The Way Up from 

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