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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Why not just put the whole world on Prozac and then there wouold be no wars, everyone would be happy.
Now there is a situation that has been studdied to death. But nothing being done. Too many people on anti depressents, and mind altering drugs. Many of them just need to get a life and to stop expecting the world to make them happy.
Children on drugs, sit in classrooms like zombies.
Now you think we need to drug our animals as well? |
I think WAY too many people are on prescription drugs. Yes, some people DO need them but the fact that so many American's on are on anti-depressants is really quite sad. There's sooo many people abusing them and it makes the people who really need them look bad. We can never seem to find our own happiness and everyone always depends on something/someone else to make them happy, but deep down, YOU can only make yourself happy.
And believe me, I've had plenty of experience with anti-depressants/anti-anxiety medicine. A lot of family are on them. I 100% understand the feeling of just being completely lost and depressed in your life. It's the worst feeling in the whole entire world. I lost my 5 year old brother to a drowning incident in 2006 and an entire year of my life was lost during the grieving process of my little buddy. We've been through the terrible lawsuits where we had to hear every last detail of his dying minutes and how much he suffered, and sit through an 8 day trial watching a douche bag defensve attorney make my mother and stepfather cry, talk down to them, and talk as if my little brother were an object and not a human being. I still deal with it every day. I never once took any drug (prescription) even though offered to me and I'm now doing better than ANY one in my family, 3 years later. My mom is still slowly weening off of Xanax, as is my aunt, my step-dad continues to take sleeping pills every night, etc. I prefer to face my problems on my own. But yes, I completely understand in certain times, they are necessary. Losing a child is the worst thing you can go through in your life so I don't judge my parents for it. I see "ADHD" kids who were thrown on Ridialin at the tender age of 8 because they're "ADD".... no, they're EIGHT years old! EVERY single person I knew who took those ADD pills growing up in elem, middle and high school are ALL wacked in the brain. I knew about 8 people who took that medication. Some are suicidal, some are loners, some just got into bigger drugs, some played into the whole ADD thing and used it as an excuse, or thought they were dumb or stupid.
I'm totally going OFF topic and on a tanget. But drugs in general just irk me. Yes, sometimes they're absolutely necessary but only to a certain extent. I don't like so many living things depending on drugs to get through their every day life and don't think dogs should have to, either.
OK, making my post a little back ON topic.... I don't think there's anything wrong with taking advantage of the medical veternarian field for animals. Hey, we've got it, so let's use it, right? Cesar even had an episode where he used accupuncture to calm a dog... but I'm sure someone will come in and say he was being abusive because OMGGzz he stuck needles in the dog! I don't think it's wrong per say to give a dog drugs, but I definitely think the issues should be addressed VERY clearly and evaluated very thoroughly beforehand.