Neuroscience: A Work in Progress

I believe in science. I am not a creationist, nor a loner who distrusts all of western civilization. Science has its uses, but it also has its limits. Science can create atomic energy, send a man to the moon, cure countless diseases, but it cannot (at least not yet) make us all blissfully happy. Just as every achievement of science was achieved by trial and error, so too is the achievement of pharmaceutically produced happiness. The question you must ask yourself when considering pscycho-pharmacuetical treatment is: Do I want to be a part of that process? Do I want to take the chance that I could be one of those errors? In the past psychiatry has committed some pretty gruesome mistakes. At one point in time cutting pieces out of people's brains or electrocuting them to near death was considered treatment. Obviously, as science has now realized, these treatments were nothing of the sort. They were barbaric, crude, damaging and disabling attempts at treatment. Today we have new treatments, undoubtedly less harmful than the old, but still part of the same trial and error process that every scientific discipline goes though and as such the legitimate question arises: are the drugs used to treat mental illnesses today safe for human consumption? There are varing answers, for some are safer than others. But no drug used in psychiatry today is as safe as its manufactuer claims or hints at in its ad campigns. I urge those who are considering psychiatric treatment to research your decision before you agree to treatment. Please check out some of these links for more information...