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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Xanax (klonopin etc) is the new Valium. It's dangerously addictive. the pharmas and psychiatric industry has known this since the 60s yet pushes these legal drugs.
    Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan and Valium are all dangerously addictive and overprescribed. I myself have been on one of them for almost 10 years, and I'm quite young. I have a prescription and I only take it when I absolutely have to, (PRN). My doctor trusts me not to abuse it, and I think if he felt I were he would pull it immediately.

    But most doctors don't seem to give a $#@! if their patients get hooked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    There has to be better alternatives.
    I love doing yoga and basically any kind of good exercise to try and calm me down. It doesn't always fix my anxiety and stuff but it does help a lot, especially yoga, for me at least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    Unfortunately, soldiers don't have many options if they're deployed. Bringing them home for intensive therapy would make the most sense, but that would likely stop people from coming forward with mental health concerns, no?
    We have mental health units forward deployed. I have brought some of my soldiers to them. Unfortunately they just provide pills. I was easier when you were in charge of people. You didn't have time to worry about yourself.

    It is funny- they make you check your weapons in when you come in. Luckily I had a couple of knives they didn't know about. (Always worried about insurgents getting in). The army is not going to start intensive therapy in a war zone or back in the states. The system is broken. It is designed to weed people out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chloe View Post
    I love doing yoga and basically any kind of good exercise to try and calm me down. It doesn't always fix my anxiety and stuff but it does help a lot, especially yoga, for me at least.
    Weight lifting does it for me. Not sure why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    We have mental health units forward deployed. I have brought some of my soldiers to them. Unfortunately they just provide pills. I was easier when you were in charge of people. You didn't have time to worry about yourself.

    It is funny- they make you check your weapons in when you come in. Luckily I had a couple of knives they didn't know about. (Always worried about insurgents getting in). The army is not going to start intensive therapy in a war zone or back in the states. The system is broken. It is designed to weed people out.
    The system is broken pretty much everywhere. But... in terms of the general population, they need to educate themselves and take charge of their own health. It doesn't hurt to ask questions or seek alternatives or second opinions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    The system is broken pretty much everywhere. But... in terms of the general population, they need to educate themselves and take charge of their own health. It doesn't hurt to ask questions or seek alternatives or second opinions.
    That is good advice people should listen too it.

    My concern is for not myself, but all the soldiers stuck in the military health care system.

    I will muddle through things like always.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    That is good advice people should listen too it.

    My concern is for not myself, but all the soldiers stuck in the military health care system.

    I will muddle through things like always.
    How could the military health care system in the US be improved, in your opinion?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    How could the military health care system in the US be improved, in your opinion?
    De-institutionalize it. Treat the patient. Don't have a one-size-fits all solution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    And see, that's part of the problem. Was the medical doctor a psychiatrist? You've got general physicians everywhere prescribing medications that are not their specialty. It's ridiculous. And they're not expecting the patient to do any kind of talk therapy, they just prescribe and that's that.

    Not to mention Klonopin (clonazepam) is a benzo - you shouldn't be on those for more than 3-4 weeks. Something a psychiatrist is completely aware of and constantly monitoring in their patients that could easily fall through the cracks with a GP.
    I agree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ptif219 View Post
    I agree.
    Possibly an unpopular view, but excluding the military, are too many people simply looking for a cure for life? I understand that some people are clinically depressed and others suffer from legitimate psychological disorders that are caused by chemical imbalances. But are too many people simply looking for happiness in all the wrong places? Do people think that they have to be happy all of the time or something is wrong with them? Do people suffer from prolonged anxiety simply because they don't want to change their life, or because they can't accept life is not what they imagined it should be? What did people do 200 years ago? Mostly they just got on with life. People were not taught to be so self-pitying in the past. If you didn't like something you would change it or suck it up and get on with life. I wonder how much people in the third world dwell on psychology?
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