Alternative Therapies

Medicines are meant to cure you of your ailments. They should be used in a positive manner. They should be taken for what they have been prescribed for. But at times this does not happen. For example, anti-depressants are meant to cure you of your depression. They should be taken strictly for that. At times, they are used negatively. Let us understand this further.

How Anti-depressants Are Used Negatively?

• Several college students are taking anti-depressants to perform better in their examinations. Drug abuse is due to social,economic and academic pressures. To overcome their distress in performing better at college they are going in for counseling and taking anti-depressants
• Anti-depressants are considered to be “magic pills” to solve personal problems
• Even if the threshold has not been reached to take depression tablets, many college students are yet resorting to them
• Many take it for “improved self”, better than original self. Even for mild social and general anxiety, anti-depressants are being prescribed
• They are being used to improve concentration, focus and alertness. These stimulants are being used for recreation and to work more efficiently
• Students take such stimulants to stay up late in order to study
• Many go in for the therapeutic effects such as improved mood, better social functioning, more energy, better sleep and to reduce obsessive thinking

Anti-depressants have become the solution to all problems. People are taking it for various psychological conditions. Trying it out the natural way is being substituted by the “pill culture”.