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To: quehubo who wrote (126435)	12/5/2009 11:07:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542259

"But a life time of coping with mind altering substances is very destructive for many people. I am not talking about schizophrenics, but more for dealing with depression, anxiety, etc." Are you in the medical profession? Do you realize these emotional problems are often biochemical at root? Of course drugs are going to help that. There is an interesting book you should read- it is about the terrible effect that views, such as yours, have on the mentally ill. Your view causes many mentally ill people to "self stigmatize"- and thus feel if they were "better" people, they would not need medication. So they go off their meds- and then, guess what? They get depressed, or anxious, or delusional again. amazon.com And no, I'm not talking about schizophrenics. When your body is biochemically out of balance believing you have a "choice" about it is about as realistic as thinking you have a "choice" to get rid of your gangrene in a foot. That's not to say some people can't 12 step it- but those folks fail a lot, and it's a pretty hefty religious commitment. If you can fix the underlying problem, which is chemical in nature, that's probably a better thing- than to try to force a broken machine to accept its broken-ness by leaning on a higher power and accepting being broken. I'm of the "If you can fix it, that's better than being broken" school of thought.